John Goodman
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).
Born: 20 June 1952
Played In
Chili Finger
Blake Jr.
Digger
President of United States
Monsters Funday Football
Sulley (Voice)
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever
Doodle (voice)
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
Self (archive footage)
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
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
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
Live from New York!
Self
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
Hal Houston (voice)
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Self - Actor
The Gambler
Frank
All-Stars
Himself
Evolution Within Extinction
Self
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Hound (voice)
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
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
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)
All Star Bowling Trick Shots
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
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)
Gigantic
Happy's Father
Speed Racer
Pops
Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family
Pops Racer
Bee Movie
Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
Death Sentence
Bones Darley
The Pixar Story
James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
Damages
Howard Erickson
Evan Almighty
Congressman Long
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
Self
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Self (archive footage)
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Santa Claus
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Judge Robert Bebe
Cars
Sullivan Truck (voice)
Tales of the Rat Fink
Ed Roth (voice)
The Emperor's New School
Pacha (voice)
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Steve Mills
Kronk's New Groove
Pacha (voice)
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Self - Presenter
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
Beyond the Sea
Steve Blauner
Center of the Universe
John Barnett
Father of the Pride
Larry (voice)
Clifford's Really Big Movie
George Wolfsbottom (voice)
Freshman Orientation
Rodney
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
Masked and Anonymous
Uncle Sweetheart
Overnight
Self
The Jungle Book 2
Baloo (voice)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
The Sweatbox
Self
Dirty Deeds
Tony
Mike's New Car
Sulley (voice)
Storytelling
Marty Livingston
Monsters, Inc.
Sullivan (voice)
My First Mister
Benjamin
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
Narrator
On the Edge
The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
One Night at McCool's
Detective Dehling
The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool
Self
The Emperor's New Groove
Pacha (voice)
Normal, Ohio
William "Butch" Gamble
Ed
Big Rudy
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Big Dan Teague
Coyote Ugly
Bill
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
Oklahoma Cop
Pigs Next Door
Phil (voice)
What Planet Are You From?
Roland Jones
Bringing Out the Dead
Larry Verber
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Self
Now and Again
Now and Again
Michael Wiseman
The West Wing
Glenallen Walken
The Runner
Deepthroat
SpongeBob SquarePants
Santa Claus (voice)
The Jack Bull
Judge Tolliver
Futurama
Robot Santa Claus (voice)
Discovering Bedrock
Self
Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood
Himself
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'
Self
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Santa Claus (voice)
The Real Macaw
Mac (voice)
Dirty Work
Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
The Big Lebowski
Walter Sobchak
Blues Brothers 2000
Mighty Mack McTeer
Fallen
Jonesy
The Borrowers
Ocious P. Potter
Soul Man
Capt. Stan Hamel
King of the Hill
Tommy (voice)
Mother Night
Major Frank Wirtanen
Saturday Night Special
Muppets Tonight
Self
Pie in the Sky
Alan Davenport
Ruby Wax Meets
A Streetcar Named Desire
Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
Huey P. Long, Jr.
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
Downwardly Mobile
The Flintstones
Fred Flintstone
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Tough Guy Helpline Operator
The Hudsucker Proxy
Newsreel Announcer (voice)
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Rex (voice)
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
Self (segment "New Way to Walk")
Grace Under Fire
Police Officer
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Born Yesterday
Harry Brock
Matinee
Lawrence Woolsey
Frosty Returns
Frosty the Snowman (voice)
The Jackie Thomas Show
Dan Conner
The Babe
Babe Ruth
A Friend in New Orleans
Himself
Barton Fink
Charlie Meadows
King Ralph
Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
Self - Host
American Chronicles
self
Arachnophobia
Delbert McClintock
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
Self
Stella
Ed Munn
Grand
Red
Always
Al Yackey
The Simpsons
Meathook (voice)
Sea of Love
Sherman
Everybody's All-American
Lawrence
Roseanne
Dan Conner
Punchline
John Krytsick
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
The Wrong Guys
Duke Earle
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")
Murder Ordained
Hugh Rayburn
Murder Ordained
Hugh Rayburn
Burglar
Detective Nyswander
Raising Arizona
Gale
The Big Easy
Andre DeSoto
True Stories
Louis Fyne
Sweet Dreams
Otis
The Equalizer
Harold Winter
Moonlighting
Donald Chase
C.H.U.D.
Cop in Diner
Revenge of the Nerds
Coach Harris
Maria's Lovers
Frank
Heart of Steel
Raymond Bohupinsky
The Survivors
Commando
Eddie Macon's Run
Mr. Hebert
The Face of Rage
Fred
The Robber Bridegroom
Townsperson
The Mystery of the Morro Castle
Telegraph Operator
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
Linda Tripp (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
Nathan Barnett (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
The Ghost of SNL Hosts Presents (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
Linda Tripp (voice) (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
Self - Various Characters (uncredited)
CMA Awards
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Oscars
Self
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner