John Goodman
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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 various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Vanity Fair has called him "among our very finest actors". Goodman is known for his collaborations with the Coen brothers, appearing in films such as Raising Arizona (1987), Barton Fink (1991), The Big Lebowski (1998), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). He took leading roles in King Ralph (1991), The Babe (1992), Matinee (1993), The Flintstones (1994), and 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) as well as supporting roles in Revenge of the Nerds (1984), True Stories (1986), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Evan Almighty (2007), Speed Racer (2008), The Artist (2011), Flight (2012), Argo (2012), and Atomic Blonde (2017). He voiced roles in The Emperor's New Groove franchise (2000–2008), the Monsters, Inc. franchise (2001–present), Bee Movie (2007) and Smurfs (2025). On television, Goodman gained recognition playing the family patriarch Dan Conner in the ABC comedy series Roseanne (1988–1997; 2018), and The Conners (2018–2025). Goodman has played an English professor in the drama series Treme (2010–2011), a military contractor in the legal drama series Damages (2011), a Republican senator in the political satire Alpha House (2013–2014), and a televangelist in the comedy series The Righteous Gemstones (2019–2025). He also guest-starred in The West Wing (2003–2004), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006), and Community (2011–2012), and is a member of the Five Timers Club, having hosted Saturday Night Live 13 times from 1989 to 2013. 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 Beckett play Waiting for Godot (2009), and the newspaper comedy The Front Page (2016). Goodman made his West End debut in a revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo (2015). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Goodman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
as Sullivan (voice)
Cars (2006)
as Sullivan Truck (voice)
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
as Bill Randa
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
as Pacha (voice)
The Hangover Part III (2013)
as Marshall
Monsters University (2013)
as Sullivan (voice)
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
as Hound (voice)
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
as Hound (voice)
Bee Movie (2007)
as Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
as Walter Sobchak
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
as Howard
Smurfs (2025)
as Papa Smurf (voice)
Argo (2012)
as John Chambers
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
as Igon Siruss (voice)
Atomic Blonde (2017)
as Emmett Kurzfeld
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
as Big Dan Teague
Flight (2012)
as Harling Mays
Digger (2026)
as President Compson
Evan Almighty (2007)
as Congressman Long
Speed Racer (2008)
as Pops
The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
as Baloo (voice)
Patriots Day (2016)
as Commisioner Ed Davis
ParaNorman (2012)
as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
Kronk's New Groove (2005)
as Pacha (voice)
Fallen (1998)
as Jonesy
The Flintstones (1994)
as Fred Flintstone
Coyote Ugly (2000)
as Bill
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
as Graham Bloomwood
The Monuments Men (2014)
as Sgt. Walter Garfield
Maria's Lovers (1984)
as Frank
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
as Roland Turner
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
as Larry Verber
Sea of Love (1989)
as Sherman
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
as Newsreel Announcer (voice)
The Gambler (2014)
as Frank
The Artist (2011)
as Al Zimmer
Once Upon a Time in Venice (2017)
as Dave Phillips
Ratchet & Clank (2016)
as Grimroth (voice)
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
as Coach Harris
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
as Stan the Doorman
Death Sentence (2007)
as Bones Darley
Raising Arizona (1987)
as Gale
Barton Fink (1991)
as Charlie Meadows
Trouble with the Curve (2012)
as Pete Klein
The Borrowers (1997)
as Ocious P. Potter
Trumbo (2015)
as Frank King
Captive State (2019)
as William Mulligan
Love the Coopers (2015)
as Sam Cooper
Mike's New Car (2002)
as Sulley (voice)
The Campaign (2012)
as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
as Mighty Mack McTeer
What Planet Are You From? (2000)
as Roland Jones
In the Electric Mist (2009)
as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
Red State (2011)
as Joseph Keenan
C.H.U.D. (1984)
as Cop in Diner
One Night at McCool's (2001)
as Detective Dehling
Arachnophobia (1990)
as Delbert McClintock
The Pixar Story (2007)
as James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
Chili Finger (2026)
as Blake Jr.
King Ralph (1991)
as Ralph
Always (1989)
as Al Yackey
You Don't Know Jack (2010)
as Neal Nicol
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain (2023)
as Narrator (voice)
Pope Joan (2009)
as Pope Sergius II.
Party Central (2014)
as Sullivan (voice)
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
as Rex (voice)
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration (1993)
as Self (segment "New Way to Walk")
Dirty Work (1998)
as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
as (archive footage)
Storytelling (2001)
as Marty Livingston
Burglar (1987)
as Detective Nyswander
The Big Easy (1986)
as Andre DeSoto
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)
as Oklahoma Cop
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998)
as Santa Claus (voice)
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle (2015)
as Hal Houston (voice)
Matinee (1993)
as Lawrence Woolsey
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special (1999)
as Self
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2006)
as Steve Mills
Dirty Deeds (2002)
as Tony
The Babe (1992)
as Babe Ruth
Punchline (1988)
as John Krytsick
Skeletons (2027)
Actor
The Jack Bull (1999)
as Judge Tolliver
Everybody's All-American (1988)
as Lawrence
Masked and Anonymous (2003)
as Uncle Sweetheart
Overnight (2003)
as Self
Beyond All Boundaries (2009)
as Capt. Edwin Simmons
Born Yesterday (1993)
as Harry Brock
The Survivors (1983)
as Commando
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever (2025)
as Doodle (voice)
It's a SpongeBob Christmas! (2012)
as Santa Claus
Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004)
as George Wolfsbottom (voice)
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995)
as Huey P. Long, Jr.
Sweet Dreams (1985)
as Otis
Beyond the Sea (2004)
as Steve Blauner
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
as Self
Eddie Macon's Run (1983)
as Mr. Hebert
The Wrong Guys (1988)
as Duke Earle
A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
Bunyan and Babe (2017)
as Paul Bunyan (voice)
Mother Night (1996)
as Major Frank Wirtanen
My First Mister (2001)
as Benjamin
Frosty Returns (1992)
as Frosty the Snowman (voice)
Stella (1990)
as Ed Munn
Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective (2013)
as Self
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast (2005)
as Self - Presenter
The Artist: The Making of an American Romance (2012)
as Self
Alabama Moon (2009)
as Mr. Wellington
The Sweatbox (2002)
as Self
On the Edge (2001)
as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015)
as Self - Actor
True Stories (1986)
as Louis Fyne
Murder Ordained (1987)
as Hugh Rayburn
Live from New York! (2015)
as Self
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' (2014)
as Self
Milius (2013)
as Self
Easy Does It (2020)
as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)
Gigantic (2008)
as Happy's Father
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! (1994)
as Tough Guy Helpline Operator
The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006)
as Santa Claus
Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family (2008)
as Pops Racer
Monsters Funday Football (2025)
as Sulley (Voice)
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh (2019)
as Self
Freshman Orientation (2004)
as Rodney
Discovering Bedrock (1999)
as Self
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation (2007)
as Self
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Evolution Within Extinction (2014)
as Self
The Real Macaw (1998)
as Mac (voice)
Tales of the Rat Fink (2006)
as Ed Roth (voice)
All-Stars (2014)
as Himself
Speed Racer: Car Fu (2008)
as Self
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years (1990)
as Self
The Book of Manning (2013)
as Narrator
Pie in the Sky (1996)
as Alan Davenport
Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night (2011)
as Narrator
A Friend in New Orleans (1992)
as Himself
New Orleans: The First 300 Years (2017)
as Narrator
Heart of Steel (1983)
as Raymond Bohupinsky
The Runner (1999)
as Deepthroat
The Robber Bridegroom (1980)
as Townsperson
Girls Gone Gangsta (2009)
as Mortimer J Hamm
The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool (2001)
as Self
Drunkboat (2012)
as Mr. Fletcher
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash (1990)
as Self - Host
When Dinosaurs Roamed America (2001)
as Narrator
Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood (1999)
as Himself
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant (1988)
as Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans (2008)
as Narrator (voice)
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski' (1998)
as Self
The Face of Rage (1983)
as Fred
The Future Is Now (1992)
as Businessman
All Star Bowling Trick Shots (2012)
Actor
Real Life (2018)
as Louis Fyne
The Mystery of the Morro Castle (1980)
as Telegraph Operator
The Internship (2013)
as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)