John Goodman
- Acting
- June 20, 1952 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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 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
Filmography
- Skeletons
- Digger · President Compson
- Chili Finger · Blake Jr., Executive producer
- Monsters Funday Football · Sulley (Voice)
- A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever · Doodle (Voice)
- Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special · Self
- Smurfs · Papa Smurf (Voice)
- Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain · Narrator (Voice)
- Monarch: Legacy of Monsters · Bill Randa, Bill Randa (archive footage)
- The Freak Brothers · Fat Freddy Freekowtski (Voice)
- Monsters at Work · Sulley (Voice)
- Easy Does It · "Catfish" Crawford (Voice)
- The Righteous Gemstones · Eli Gemstone
- Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh · Self
- Biography: Comedy Icons · Self
- Captive State · William Mulligan
- Real Life · Louis Fyne
- The Conners · Dan Conner
- Black Earth Rising · Michael Ennis
- Atomic Blonde · Emmett Kurzfeld
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets · Igon Siruss (Voice)
- Transformers: The Last Knight · Hound (Voice)
- Once Upon a Time in Venice · Dave Phillips
- Kong: Skull Island · Bill Randa
- Bunyan and Babe · Paul Bunyan (Voice)
- New Orleans: The First 300 Years · Narrator
- Patriots Day · Commisioner Ed Davis
- Ratchet & Clank · Grimroth (Voice)
- 10 Cloverfield Lane · Howard
- Love the Coopers · Sam Cooper
- Trumbo · Frank King
- Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead · Self
- Live from New York! · Self
- Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle · Hal Houston (Voice)
- The Gambler · Frank
- All-Stars · Self
- Evolution Within Extinction · Self
- Transformers: Age of Extinction · Hound (Voice)
- Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' · Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- Party Central · Sullivan (Voice)
- Off Camera with Sam Jones · Self
- The Monuments Men · Sgt. Walter Garfield
- Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective · Self
- Inside Llewyn Davis · Roland Turner
- The Book of Manning · Narrator
- Monsters University · Sullivan (Voice)
- The Internship · Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
- The Hangover Part III · Marshall
- Alpha House · Senator Gil John Biggs
- Milius · Self
- Dancing on the Edge · Masterson
- All Star Bowling Trick Shots
- It's a SpongeBob Christmas! · Santa Claus
- Argo · John Chambers
- Trouble with the Curve · Pete Klein
- The Campaign · Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
- ParaNorman · Mr. Prenderghast (Voice)
- Drunkboat · Mr. Fletcher
- The Artist: The Making of an American Romance · Self
- Flight · Harling Mays
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen · (archive footage)
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close · Stan the Doorman
- The Artist · Al Zimmer
- Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night · Narrator
- Red State · Joseph Keenan
- You Don't Know Jack · Neal Nicol
- Best Food Ever · Narrator
- Treme · Creighton Bernette
- The Princess and the Frog · "Big Daddy" La Bouff (Voice)
- Beyond All Boundaries · Capt. Edwin Simmons
- Alabama Moon · Mr. Wellington
- Pope Joan · Pope Sergius II.
- Community · Vice Dean Laybourne
- In the Electric Mist · Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
- Confessions of a Shopaholic · Graham Bloomwood
- Girls Gone Gangsta · Mortimer J Hamm
- Speed Racer: Car Fu · Self
- Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans · Narrator (Voice)