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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
June 20, 1952
Place of Birth:
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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John Goodman
Biography
John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is an American actor. He rose to prominence in television before becoming an acclaimed and popular film actor. Goodman has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Vanity Fair has called Goodman "among our very finest actors."
Goodman is known for his collaborations with the Coen brothers, acting in films such as Raising Arizona (1987), Barton Fink (1991), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). He took on leading roles in King Ralph (1991), The Babe (1992), Matinee (1993), The Flintstones (1994), and 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016). Goodman also had supporting roles in Revenge of the Nerds (1984), True Stories (1986), Sea of Love (1989), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Storytelling (2001), Speed Racer (2008), The Artist (2011), Flight (2012), Argo (2012), The Hangover Part III (2013), and Atomic Blonde (2017). He has voiced roles in The Emperor's New Groove franchise (2000–2008), the Monsters, Inc. franchise (2001–present), The Jungle Book 2 (2003), and Bee Movie (2007).
On television, Goodman gained recognition by playing the family patriarch Dan Conner in the comedy series Roseanne (1988–1997; 2018) and The Conners (2018–present). Goodman had regular roles in the HBO drama series Treme (2010–2011), the legal drama series Damages (2011), the political comedy series Alpha House (2013–2014), and the HBO comedy series The Righteous Gemstones (2019–present). He has been a frequent host of Saturday Night Live (1989–2013) and has guest starred in The West Wing (2003–2004), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006), and Community (2011–2012).
Goodman started his career at The Public Theatre, acting in numerous productions, including Henry IV, Part 1 (1981), The Skin of Our Teeth (1998), and The Seagull (2001). He made his Broadway debut in Big River (1985), for which Goodman received a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical nomination. He returned to Broadway in revivals of the Samuel Becket play Waiting for Godot (2009) and the newspaper comedy The Front Page (2016). Goodman debuted his West End in a revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo (2015).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Judy | |
| 2025 | Smurfs | Papa Smurf (voice) |
| 2023 | Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain | Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Birds of a Different Game: The '80s Cardinals | |
| 2020 | Easy Does It | "Catfish" Crawford (voice) |
| 2019 | Captive State | William Mulligan |
| 2019 | Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh | |
| 2017 | New Orleans: The First 300 Years | Narrator |
| 2017 | Transformers: The Last Knight | Hound (voice) |
| 2017 | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | Igon Siruss (voice) |
| 2017 | Kong: Skull Island | Bill Randa |
| 2017 | Atomic Blonde | Emmett Kurzfeld |
| 2017 | Bunyan and Babe | Paul Bunyan (voice) |
| 2017 | Once Upon a Time in Venice | Dave Phillips |
| 2016 | 10 Cloverfield Lane | Howard |
| 2016 | Ratchet & Clank | Grimroth (voice) |
| 2016 | Patriots Day | Commisioner Ed Davis |
| 2015 | Trumbo | Frank King |
| 2015 | Love the Coopers | Sam Cooper |
| 2015 | Live from New York! | Self |
| 2015 | Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle | Houston (voice) |
| 2015 | Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead | Self - Actor |
| 2014 | The Monuments Men | Sgt. Walter Garfield |
| 2014 | Party Central | Sullivan (voice) |
| 2014 | Transformers: Age of Extinction | Hound (voice) |
| 2014 | Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' | Self |
| 2014 | The Gambler | Frank |
| 2014 | Evolution Within Extinction | Self |
| 2014 | All-Stars | Himself |
| 2013 | Monsters University | Sullivan (voice) |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Roland Turner |
| 2013 | The Hangover Part III | Marshall |
| 2013 | The Internship | Sammy Boscoe (uncredited) |
| 2013 | Milius | Self |
| 2013 | Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective | Self |
| 2013 | The Book of Manning | Narrator |
| 2012 | Argo | John Chambers |
| 2012 | Drunkboat | Mr. Fletcher |
| 2012 | ParaNorman | Mr. Prenderghast (voice) |
| 2012 | Trouble with the Curve | Pete Klein |
| 2012 | Flight | Harling Mays |
| 2012 | It's a SpongeBob Christmas! | Santa Claus |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) |
| 2012 | All Star Bowling Trick Shots | |
| 2012 | The Campaign | Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited) |
| 2012 | The Artist: The Making of an American Romance | Self |
| 2011 | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Stan the Doorman |
| 2011 | Red State | Joseph Keenan |
| 2011 | The Artist | Al Zimmer |
| 2011 | Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night | Narrator |
| 2010 | You Don't Know Jack | Neal Nicol |
| 2009 | The Princess and the Frog | "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice) |
| 2009 | Confessions of a Shopaholic | Graham Bloomwood |
| 2009 | Pope Joan | Pope Sergius II. |
| 2009 | In the Electric Mist | Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni |
| 2009 | Alabama Moon | Mr. Wellington |
| 2009 | Girls Gone Gangsta | Mortimer J Hamm |
| 2009 | Beyond All Boundaries | Capt. Edwin Simmons |
| 2008 | Speed Racer | Pops Racer |
| 2008 | Gigantic | Happy's Father |
| 2008 | Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans | Himself - Narrator |
| 2007 | Evan Almighty | Congressman Long |
| 2007 | Bee Movie | Layton T. Montgomery (voice) |
| 2007 | Death Sentence | Bones Darley |
| 2007 | The Pixar Story | James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1 | |
| 2006 | Tales of the Rat Fink | Ed Roth (voice) |
| 2006 | Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School | Steve Mills |
| 2006 | Cars | Sullivan Truck (voice) |
| 2006 | The Year Without a Santa Claus | Santa Claus |
| 2005 | A Concert for Hurricane Relief | Self - Presenter |
| 2005 | Kronk's New Groove | Pacha (voice) |
| 2004 | Beyond the Sea | Steve Blauner |
| 2004 | Freshman Orientation | Rodney |
| 2004 | Clifford's Really Big Movie | George Wolfsbottom (voice) |
| 2003 | Masked and Anonymous | Uncle Sweetheart |
| 2003 | The Jungle Book 2 | Baloo (voice) |
| 2003 | Overnight | Self |
| 2002 | Dirty Deeds | Tony |
| 2002 | Mike's New Car | Sulley (voice) |
| 2002 | The Sweatbox | Himself |
| 2001 | Monsters, Inc. | Sullivan (voice) |
| 2001 | One Night at McCool's | Detective Dehling |
| 2001 | My First Mister | Benjamin |
| 2001 | When Dinosaurs Roamed America | Narrator |
| 2001 | On the Edge | The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday") |
| 2001 | Storytelling | Marty Livingston |
| 2000 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Big Dan Teague |
| 2000 | What Planet Are You From? | Roland Jones |
| 2000 | The Emperor's New Groove | Pacha (voice) |
| 2000 | Coyote Ugly | Bill |
| 2000 | The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle | Oklahoma Cop |
| 1999 | Bringing Out the Dead | Larry Verber |
| 1999 | The Jack Bull | Judge Tolliver |
| 1999 | Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood | Himself |
| 1999 | The Runner | Deepthroat |
| 1999 | Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special | Self |
| 1998 | The Big Lebowski | Walter Sobchak |
| 1998 | Blues Brothers 2000 | Mighty Mack McTeer |
| 1998 | Fallen | Jonesy |
| 1998 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie | Santa Claus (voice) |
| 1998 | Dirty Work | Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited) |
| 1998 | The Real Macaw | Mac (voice) |
| 1998 | The Making of 'The Big Lebowski' | Self |
| 1997 | The Borrowers | Ocious P. Potter |
| 1996 | Mother Night | Major Frank Wirtanen |
| 1996 | Pie in the Sky | Alan Davenport |
| 1995 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell |
| 1995 | The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies | Self |
| 1995 | Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long | Huey P. Long, Jr. |
| 1994 | The Flintstones | Fred Flintstone |
| 1994 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Newsreel Announcer (voice) |
| 1994 | Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! | Tough Guy Helpline Operator |
| 1993 | Matinee | Lawrence Woolsey |
| 1993 | Born Yesterday | Harry Brock |
| 1993 | We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story | Rex (voice) |
| 1992 | Frosty Returns | Frosty the Snowman (voice) |
| 1992 | The Babe | Babe Ruth |
| 1991 | Barton Fink | Charlie Meadows |
| 1991 | King Ralph | Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones |
| 1990 | Arachnophobia | Delbert McClintock |
| 1990 | Stella | Ed Munn |
| 1990 | Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash | Self - Host |
| 1989 | Always | Al Yackey |
| 1989 | Sea of Love | Sherman |
| 1988 | The Wrong Guys | Duke Earle |
| 1988 | Everybody's All-American | Lawrence |
| 1988 | Punchline | John Krytsick |
| 1987 | Raising Arizona | Gale |
| 1987 | Burglar | Detective Nyswander |
| 1987 | Murder Ordained | Hugh Rayburn |
| 1986 | The Big Easy | Andre DeSoto |
| 1986 | True Stories | Louis Fyne |
| 1986 | Real Life | Louis Fyne |
| 1985 | Sweet Dreams | Otis |
| 1984 | Revenge of the Nerds | Coach Harris |
| 1984 | Maria's Lovers | Frank |
| 1984 | C.H.U.D. | Cop in Diner |
| 1983 | The Survivors | Commando |
| 1983 | The Face of Rage | Fred |
| 1983 | Heart of Steel | Raymond Bohupinsky |
| 1983 | Eddie Macon's Run | Mr. Hebert |
| 1980 | The Mystery of the Morro Castle | Telegraph Operator |
| 1980 | The Robber Bridegroom | Townsperson |
| Chili Finger |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Monarch: Legacy of Monsters | Bill Randa |
| 2023 | Monarch: Legacy of Monsters | Bill Randa (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter | Self |
| 2021 | The Freak Brothers | Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice) |
| 2021 | Monsters at Work | Sulley (voice) |
| 2019 | Biography: Comedy Icons | Himself |
| 2019 | The Righteous Gemstones | Eli Gemstone |
| 2018 | The Conners | Dan Conner |
| 2018 | Black Earth Rising | Michael Ennis |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | Off Camera with Sam Jones | Self |
| 2013 | Alpha House | Senator Gil John Biggs |
| 2013 | Dancing on the Edge | Masterson |
| 2010 | Treme | |
| 2010 | Treme | Creighton Bernette |
| 2010 | Best Food Ever | Narrator |
| 2009 | Community | Vice Dean Laybourne |
| 2007 | Damages | Howard Erickson |
| 2007 | Boulevard of Broken Dreams | (archive footage) |
| 2006 | Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip | Judge Robert Bebe |
| 2006 | The Emperor's New School | Pacha (voice) |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self |
| 2004 | Father of the Pride | Larry (voice) |
| 2004 | Center of the Universe | John Barnett |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | |
| 2000 | Ed | Big Rudy |
| 2000 | Normal, Ohio | William "Butch" Gamble |
| 2000 | Pigs Next Door | Phil (voice) |
| 1999 | Now and Again | |
| 1999 | Futurama | Robot Santa Claus (voice) |
| 1999 | SpongeBob SquarePants | Santa Claus (voice) |
| 1999 | The West Wing | Glenallen Walken |
| 1999 | Now and Again | Michael Wiseman |
| 1997 | King of the Hill | Tommy (voice) |
| 1997 | Soul Man | Capt. Stan Hamel |
| 1996 | Muppets Tonight | Self |
| 1996 | Saturday Night Special | |
| 1996 | Ruby Wax Meets | |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self |
| 1994 | Downwardly Mobile | |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest |
| 1993 | Grace Under Fire | Police Officer |
| 1992 | The Jackie Thomas Show | Dan Conner |
| 1990 | Grand | Red |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Meathook (voice) |
| 1988 | Roseanne | Dan Conner |
| 1987 | Murder Ordained | Hugh Rayburn |
| 1985 | Moonlighting | Donald Chase |
| 1985 | The Equalizer | Harold Winter |
| 1983 | Chiefs | Newt 'Tub' Murray |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |