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John Goodman

Born 1952-06-20

📍 Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

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).

Filmography 210

Monsters Funday Football

as Sulley (Voice)

A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever

as Doodle (voice)

Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special

as Self (archive footage)

as Papa Smurf (voice)

Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter

Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain

as Narrator (voice)

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

as Bill Randa (archive footage)

The Freak Brothers

as Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice)

Monsters at Work

as Sulley (voice)

as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)

The Righteous Gemstones

as Eli Gemstone

Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh

Biography: Comedy Icons

as William Mulligan

Black Earth Rising

as Michael Ennis

as Emmett Kurzfeld

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

as Igon Siruss (voice)

Transformers: The Last Knight

as Hound (voice)

Once Upon a Time in Venice

as Dave Phillips

Kong: Skull Island

Bunyan and Babe

as Paul Bunyan (voice)

New Orleans: The First 300 Years

as Commisioner Ed Davis

Ratchet & Clank

as Grimroth (voice)

10 Cloverfield Lane

Love the Coopers

Live from New York!

Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle

as Hal Houston (voice)

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead

as Self - Actor

Evolution Within Extinction

Transformers: Age of Extinction

as Hound (voice)

Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest

as Sullivan (voice)

Off Camera with Sam Jones

The Monuments Men

as Sgt. Walter Garfield

Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective

Inside Llewyn Davis

as Roland Turner

The Book of Manning

Monsters University

as Sullivan (voice)

as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)

The Hangover Part III

as Senator Gil John Biggs

Dancing on the Edge

as John Chambers

Trouble with the Curve

It's a SpongeBob Christmas!

as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)

as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)

as Mr. Fletcher

The Artist: The Making of an American Romance

as Harling Mays

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)

All Star Bowling Trick Shots

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

as Stan the Doorman

Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night

as Joseph Keenan

You Don't Know Jack

as Creighton Bernette

The Princess and the Frog

as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)

Beyond All Boundaries

as Capt. Edwin Simmons

as Mr. Wellington

as Pope Sergius II.

as Vice Dean Laybourne

In the Electric Mist

as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni

Confessions of a Shopaholic

as Graham Bloomwood

Girls Gone Gangsta

as Mortimer J Hamm

Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans

as Narrator (voice)

as Happy's Father

Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family

as Layton T. Montgomery (voice)

as Bones Darley

The Pixar Story

as James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)

as Howard Erickson

as Congressman Long

Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation

The Year Without a Santa Claus

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

as Judge Robert Bebe

as Sullivan Truck (voice)

The Emperor's New School

as Pacha (voice)

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Tales of the Rat Fink

as Ed Roth (voice)

Kronk's New Groove

as Pacha (voice)

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

as Self - Presenter

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

as Steve Blauner

Center of the Universe

as John Barnett

Father of the Pride

as Larry (voice)

Clifford's Really Big Movie

as George Wolfsbottom (voice)

Freshman Orientation

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Masked and Anonymous

as Uncle Sweetheart

The Jungle Book 2

as Baloo (voice)

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Sulley (voice)

as Marty Livingston

as Sullivan (voice)

My First Mister

When Dinosaurs Roamed America

as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")

One Night at McCool's

as Detective Dehling

The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool

The Emperor's New Groove

as Pacha (voice)

as William "Butch" Gamble

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

as Big Dan Teague

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

as Oklahoma Cop

as Phil (voice)

What Planet Are You From?

as Roland Jones

Bringing Out the Dead

as Larry Verber

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

as Michael Wiseman

as Glenallen Walken

SpongeBob SquarePants

as Santa Claus (voice)

as Judge Tolliver

as Robot Santa Claus (voice)

Discovering Bedrock

Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood

The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie

as Santa Claus (voice)

as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)

The Big Lebowski

as Walter Sobchak

Blues Brothers 2000

as Mighty Mack McTeer

as Ocious P. Potter

as Capt. Stan Hamel

King of the Hill

as Tommy (voice)

as Major Frank Wirtanen

Muppets Tonight

as Alan Davenport

A Streetcar Named Desire

as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long

as Huey P. Long, Jr.

Inside the Actors Studio

Downwardly Mobile

The Flintstones

as Fred Flintstone

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

as Tough Guy Helpline Operator

The Hudsucker Proxy

as Newsreel Announcer (voice)

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

as Self (segment "New Way to Walk")

Grace Under Fire

as Police Officer

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

as Lawrence Woolsey

as Frosty the Snowman (voice)

The Jackie Thomas Show

A Friend in New Orleans

as Charlie Meadows

as Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones

Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash

as Delbert McClintock

as Meathook (voice)

Everybody's All-American

as John Krytsick

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

as Self - Guest

Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant

as Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")

Murder Ordained

as Hugh Rayburn

Murder Ordained

as Hugh Rayburn

as Detective Nyswander

Raising Arizona

as Andre DeSoto

as Harold Winter

as Donald Chase

as Cop in Diner

Revenge of the Nerds

as Coach Harris

as Raymond Bohupinsky

Eddie Macon's Run

The Robber Bridegroom

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

Saturday Night Live

as Self (uncredited)

Saturday Night Live

as Linda Tripp (uncredited)

Saturday Night Live

as Nathan Barnett (uncredited)

Saturday Night Live

as The Ghost of SNL Hosts Presents (uncredited)

Saturday Night Live

as Linda Tripp (voice) (uncredited)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Winner