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John Goodman
John Goodman

John Goodman

ActingBorn June 20, 1952 (age 74)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 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

2026
Chili Finger

as Blake Jr.

Movie
2026
Digger

as President of United States

Movie
2025
Monsters Funday Football

as Sulley (Voice)

Movie
2025Movie
2025Movie
2025
Smurfs

as Papa Smurf (voice)

Movie
2023TV
2023
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

as Bill Randa (archive footage)

TV
2021
The Freak Brothers

as Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice)

TV
2021
Monsters at Work

as Sulley (voice)

TV
2020
Easy Does It

as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)

Movie
2019TV
2019
Captive State

as William Mulligan

Movie
2018
Real Life

as Louis Fyne

Movie
2018
The Conners

as Dan Conner

TV
2018
Black Earth Rising

as Michael Ennis

TV
2017
Atomic Blonde

as Emmett Kurzfeld

Movie
2017Movie
2017Movie
2017Movie
2017
Kong: Skull Island

as Bill Randa

Movie
2017
Bunyan and Babe

as Paul Bunyan (voice)

Movie
2016
Patriots Day

as Commisioner Ed Davis

Movie
2016
Ratchet & Clank

as Grimroth (voice)

Movie
2016Movie
2015
Love the Coopers

as Sam Cooper

Movie
2015
Trumbo

as Frank King

Movie
2015Movie
2015Movie
2015Movie
2014
The Gambler

as Frank

Movie
2014
All-Stars

as Himself

Movie
2014Movie
2014TV
2014
Party Central

as Sullivan (voice)

Movie
2014
The Monuments Men

as Sgt. Walter Garfield

Movie
2013
Inside Llewyn Davis

as Roland Turner

Movie
2013Movie
2013
Monsters University

as Sullivan (voice)

Movie
2013
The Internship

as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)

Movie
2013Movie
2013
Alpha House

as Senator Gil John Biggs

TV
2013
Milius

as Self

Movie
2013TV
2012Movie
2012
Argo

as John Chambers

Movie
2012Movie
2012
The Campaign

as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)

Movie
2012
ParaNorman

as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)

Movie
2012
Drunkboat

as Mr. Fletcher

Movie
2012
Flight

as Harling Mays

Movie
2012Movie
2011Movie
2011
The Artist

as Al Zimmer

Movie
2011
Red State

as Joseph Keenan

Movie
2010
You Don't Know Jack

as Neal Nicol

Movie
2010
Best Food Ever 

as Narrator

TV
2010TV
2010
Treme

as Creighton Bernette

TV
2009
The Princess and the Frog

as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)

Movie
2009
Beyond All Boundaries

as Capt. Edwin Simmons

Movie
2009
Alabama Moon

as Mr. Wellington

Movie
2009
Pope Joan

as Pope Sergius II.

Movie
2009
Community

as Vice Dean Laybourne

TV
2009
In the Electric Mist

as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni

Movie
2009
Confessions of a Shopaholic

as Graham Bloomwood

Movie
2009
Girls Gone Gangsta

as Mortimer J Hamm

Movie
2008Movie
2008Movie
2008
Gigantic

as Happy's Father

Movie
2008Movie
2007
Bee Movie

as Layton T. Montgomery (voice)

Movie
2007
Death Sentence

as Bones Darley

Movie
2007
The Pixar Story

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

Movie
2007
Damages

as Howard Erickson

TV
2007
Evan Almighty

as Congressman Long

Movie
2007
Boulevard of Broken Dreams

as Self (archive footage)

TV
2006Movie
2006
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

as Judge Robert Bebe

TV
2006
Cars

as Sullivan Truck (voice)

Movie
2006
Tales of the Rat Fink

as Ed Roth (voice)

Movie
2006
The Emperor's New School

as Pacha (voice)

TV
2005
Kronk's New Groove

as Pacha (voice)

Movie
2004
Beyond the Sea

as Steve Blauner

Movie
2004
Center of the Universe

as John Barnett

TV
2004
Father of the Pride

as Larry (voice)

TV
2004
Clifford's Really Big Movie

as George Wolfsbottom (voice)

Movie
2004Movie
2003
Masked and Anonymous

as Uncle Sweetheart

Movie
2003
Overnight

as Self

Movie
2003
The Jungle Book 2

as Baloo (voice)

Movie
2003TV
2002Movie
2002Movie
2002
Mike's New Car

as Sulley (voice)

Movie
2001
Storytelling

as Marty Livingston

Movie
2001
Monsters, Inc.

as Sullivan (voice)

Movie
2001
My First Mister

as Benjamin

Movie
2001Movie
2001
On the Edge

as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")

Movie
2001
One Night at McCool's

as Detective Dehling

Movie
2000
The Emperor's New Groove

as Pacha (voice)

Movie
2000
Normal, Ohio

as William "Butch" Gamble

TV
2000
Ed

as Big Rudy

TV
2000Movie
2000Movie
2000Movie
2000
Pigs Next Door

as Phil (voice)

TV
2000Movie
1999
Bringing Out the Dead

as Larry Verber

Movie
1999
Now and Again

as Michael Wiseman

TV
1999
The West Wing

as Glenallen Walken

TV
1999
The Runner

as Deepthroat

Movie
1999
SpongeBob SquarePants

as Santa Claus (voice)

TV
1999
The Jack Bull

as Judge Tolliver

Movie
1999
Futurama

as Robot Santa Claus (voice)

TV
1999Movie
1998Movie
1998
The Real Macaw

as Mac (voice)

Movie
1998
Dirty Work

as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)

Movie
1998
The Big Lebowski

as Walter Sobchak

Movie
1998
Blues Brothers 2000

as Mighty Mack McTeer

Movie
1998
Fallen

as Jonesy

Movie
1997
The Borrowers

as Ocious P. Potter

Movie
1997
Soul Man

as Capt. Stan Hamel

TV
1997
King of the Hill

as Tommy (voice)

TV
1996
Mother Night

as Major Frank Wirtanen

Movie
1996TV
1996
Pie in the Sky

as Alan Davenport

Movie
1995
A Streetcar Named Desire

as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell

Movie
1995Movie
1994
The Flintstones

as Fred Flintstone

Movie
1994
The Hudsucker Proxy

as Newsreel Announcer (voice)

Movie
1993Movie
1993
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

as Self (segment "New Way to Walk")

Movie
1993
Grace Under Fire

as Police Officer

TV
1993TV
1993
Born Yesterday

as Harry Brock

Movie
1993
Matinee

as Lawrence Woolsey

Movie
1992
Frosty Returns

as Frosty the Snowman (voice)

Movie
1992TV
1992
The Babe

as Babe Ruth

Movie
1992Movie
1991
Barton Fink

as Charlie Meadows

Movie
1991
King Ralph

as Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones

Movie
1990Movie
1990TV
1990
Arachnophobia

as Delbert McClintock

Movie
1990
Stella

as Ed Munn

Movie
1990
Grand

as Red

TV
1989
Always

as Al Yackey

Movie
1989
The Simpsons

as Meathook (voice)

TV
1989
Sea of Love

as Sherman

Movie
1988Movie
1988
Roseanne

as Dan Conner

TV
1988
Punchline

as John Krytsick

Movie
1988TV
1988
The Wrong Guys

as Duke Earle

Movie
1988
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant

as Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")

Movie
1987
Murder Ordained

as Hugh Rayburn

Movie
1987
Murder Ordained

as Hugh Rayburn

TV
1987
Burglar

as Detective Nyswander

Movie
1987Movie
1986
The Big Easy

as Andre DeSoto

Movie
1986
True Stories

as Louis Fyne

Movie
1985Movie
1985
The Equalizer

as Harold Winter

TV
1985
Moonlighting

as Donald Chase

TV
1984
C.H.U.D.

as Cop in Diner

Movie
1984
Revenge of the Nerds

as Coach Harris

Movie
1984Movie
1983
Heart of Steel

as Raymond Bohupinsky

Movie
1983
The Survivors

as Commando

Movie
1983
Eddie Macon's Run

as Mr. Hebert

Movie
1983Movie
1980
The Robber Bridegroom

as Townsperson

Movie
1980
The Mystery of the Morro Castle

as Telegraph Operator

Movie
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

TV
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

TV
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self (uncredited)

TV
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Linda Tripp (uncredited)

TV
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Nathan Barnett (uncredited)

TV
1975
Saturday Night Live

as The Ghost of SNL Hosts Presents (uncredited)

TV
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Linda Tripp (voice) (uncredited)

TV
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Various Characters (uncredited)

TV
1967
CMA Awards

as Self

TV
1953
The Oscars

as Self

TV
1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Winner

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJune 20, 1952
Place of BirthSaint Louis, Missouri, USA
Popularity3.4
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