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).
Known For
Walter Sobchak
The Big Lebowski
Big Dan Teague
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Charlie Meadows
Barton Fink
Fred Flintstone
The Flintstones
Gale
Raising Arizona
Sullivan (voice)
Monsters, Inc.
Detective Dehling
One Night at McCool's
"Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
The Princess and the Frog
Major Frank Wirtanen
Mother Night
Congressman Long
Evan Almighty
Roland Jones
What Planet Are You From?
Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones
King Ralph
Graham Bloomwood
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Andre DeSoto
The Big Easy
Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
Bee Movie
Al Yackey
Always
Duke Earle
The Wrong Guys
Steve Blauner
Beyond the Sea
Delbert McClintock
Arachnophobia
Pacha (voice)
The Emperor's New Groove
Mighty Mack McTeer
Blues Brothers 2000
Tony
Dirty Deeds
Pops Racer
Speed Racer
Bill
Coyote Ugly
Bones Darley
Death Sentence
Uncle Sweetheart
Masked and Anonymous
Louis Fyne
True Stories
Larry Verber
Bringing Out the Dead
Sherman
Sea of Love
Lawrence Woolsey
Matinee
Jonesy
Fallen
Benjamin
My First Mister
Ocious P. Potter
The Borrowers
Self - Presenter
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Pope Sergius II.
Die Päpstin
Lawrence
Everybody's All-American
Santa Claus (voice)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Pacha (voice)
Kronk's New Groove
Frosty the Snowman (voice)
Frosty Returns
John Krytsick
Punchline
Commando
The Survivors
Sulley (voice)
Mike's New Car
Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
In the Electric Mist
Coach Harris
Revenge of the Nerds
Rodney
Freshman Orientation
Otis
Sweet Dreams
Neal Nicol
You Don't Know Jack
Baloo (voice)
The Jungle Book 2
Happy's Father
Gigantic
Ed Roth (voice)
Tales of the Rat Fink
Babe Ruth
The Babe
Fred
The Face of Rage
Sullivan (voice)
Monsters University
Harry Brock
Born Yesterday
Judge Tolliver
The Jack Bull
Himself
Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood
Stan the Doorman
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Detective Nyswander
Burglar
Ed Munn
Stella
Oklahoma Cop
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
Dirty Work
Joseph Keenan
Red State
John Chambers
Argo
Rex (voice)
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
George Wolfsbottom (voice)
Clifford's Really Big Movie
Mr. Wellington
Alabama Moon
Narrator
New Orleans: The First 300 Years
Steve Mills
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Mac (voice)
The Real Macaw
Al Zimmer
The Artist
Mortimer J Hamm
Girls Gone Gangsta
Mr. Fletcher
Drunkboat
Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
ParaNorman
Roland Turner
Inside Llewyn Davis
Frank
Maria's Lovers
Pete Klein
Trouble with the Curve
Self
The Sweatbox
Marshall
The Hangover Part III
Sgt. Walter Garfield
The Monuments Men
Narrator (voice)
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans
Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
The Internship
Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
A Streetcar Named Desire
Narrator (voice)
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
Deepthroat
The Runner
Narrator
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
Self
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Harling Mays
Flight
James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
The Pixar Story
Sullivan (voice)
Party Central
Huey P. Long, Jr.
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
Hound (voice)
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Cop in Diner
C.H.U.D.
The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
On the Edge
Self
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Frank
The Gambler
Frank King
Trumbo
Santa Claus
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
(archive footage)
Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim
Sullivan Truck (voice)
Cars
Sam Cooper
Love the Coopers
Howard
10 Cloverfield Lane
Self
Milius
Self
Live from New York!
Grimroth (voice)
Ratchet & Clank
Self
Evolution Within Extinction
Hal Houston (voice)
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
Hound (voice)
Transformers: The Last Knight
Newsreel Announcer (voice)
The Hudsucker Proxy
Marty Livingston
Storytelling
Hugh Rayburn
Murder Ordained
Papa Smurf (voice)
Smurfs
Alan Davenport
Pie in the Sky
Santa Claus
The Year Without a Santa Claus
All Star Bowling Trick Shots
Igon Siruss (voice)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Bill Randa
Kong: Skull Island
Self
Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective
Emmett Kurzfeld
Atomic Blonde
Commisioner Ed Davis
Patriots Day
Self - Actor
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Raymond Bohupinsky
Heart of Steel
Himself
All-Stars
Narrator
Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night
William Mulligan
Captive State
Digger
Paul Bunyan (voice)
Bunyan and Babe
Telegraph Operator
The Mystery of the Morro Castle
Dave Phillips
Once Upon a Time in Venice
Self
Overnight
Mr. Hebert
Eddie Macon's Run
Self - Host
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
The Campaign
Narrator
The Book of Manning
Capt. Edwin Simmons
Beyond All Boundaries
Self
The Artist: The Making of an American Romance
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
Self
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'
Self
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
"Catfish" Crawford (voice)
Easy Does It
Townsperson
The Robber Bridegroom
Tough Guy Helpline Operator
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Chili Finger
Louis Fyne
Real Life
Self
The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool
Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
Self (archive footage)
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
Sulley (Voice)
Monsters Funday Football
Doodle (voice)
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever
Walter Sobchak (archive footage)
Black Baby
Self
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
Self(segment "New Way to Walk")
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
Pacha (voice)
The Eep and Dawn Movie
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
152
Gender
Male
Birthday
1952-06-20
Place of Birth
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Also Known As
約翰·古德曼