John Goodman

Born: 1952-06-20 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Known For: Acting

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

Digger as President of the United States
Chili Finger as Blake Jr.

2025

Smurfs as Papa Smurf (voice)
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever as Doodle (voice)
Monsters Funday Football as Sulley (Voice)
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special as Self (archive footage)

2023

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters as Bill Randa
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain as Narrator (voice)

2021

Monsters at Work as Sulley (voice)
The Freak Brothers as Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice)

2020

Easy Does It as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)

2019

The Righteous Gemstones as Eli Gemstone
Captive State as William Mulligan
Biography: Comedy Icons as Self
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh as Self

2018

The Conners as Dan Conner
Black Earth Rising as Michael Ennis
Real Life as Louis Fyne

2017

Kong: Skull Island as Bill Randa
Transformers: The Last Knight as Hound (voice)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets as Igon Siruss (voice)
Atomic Blonde as Emmett Kurzfeld
Once Upon a Time in Venice as Dave Phillips
Bunyan and Babe as Paul Bunyan (voice)
New Orleans: The First 300 Years as Narrator

2016

10 Cloverfield Lane as Howard
Patriots Day as Commisioner Ed Davis
Ratchet & Clank as Grimroth (voice)

2015

Trumbo as Frank King
Love the Coopers as Sam Cooper
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle as Hal Houston (voice)
Live from New York! as Self
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead as Self - Actor

2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
Transformers: Age of Extinction as Hound (voice)
Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
The Monuments Men as Sgt. Walter Garfield
The Gambler as Frank
Evolution Within Extinction as Self
Party Central as Sullivan (voice)
All-Stars as Himself
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' as Self

2013

Monsters University as Sullivan (voice)
The Hangover Part III as Marshall
Alpha House as Senator Gil John Biggs
Inside Llewyn Davis as Roland Turner
Dancing on the Edge as Masterson
Milius as Self
Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective as Self
The Internship as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
The Book of Manning as Narrator

2012

Argo as John Chambers
Flight as Harling Mays
ParaNorman as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
Trouble with the Curve as Pete Klein
The Campaign as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
All Star Bowling Trick Shots
It's a SpongeBob Christmas! as Santa Claus
The Artist: The Making of an American Romance as Self
Drunkboat as Mr. Fletcher

2011

The Artist as Al Zimmer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as Stan the Doorman
Red State as Joseph Keenan
Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night as Narrator

2010

Treme
You Don't Know Jack as Neal Nicol
Best Food Ever as Narrator

2009

Community as Vice Dean Laybourne
The Princess and the Frog as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
Confessions of a Shopaholic as Graham Bloomwood
In the Electric Mist as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
Pope Joan as Pope Sergius II.
Beyond All Boundaries as Capt. Edwin Simmons
Alabama Moon as Mr. Wellington
Girls Gone Gangsta as Mortimer J Hamm

2008

Speed Racer as Pops
Gigantic as Happy's Father
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans as Narrator (voice)
Speed Racer: Car Fu as Self
Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family as Pops Racer

2007

Damages as Howard Erickson
Bee Movie as Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
Evan Almighty as Congressman Long
Death Sentence as Bones Darley
The Pixar Story as James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
Boulevard of Broken Dreams as Self (archive footage)
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation as Self

2006

Cars as Sullivan Truck (voice)
The Emperor's New School as Pacha (voice)
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as Judge Robert Bebe
The Year Without a Santa Claus as Santa Claus
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School as Steve Mills
Tales of the Rat Fink as Ed Roth (voice)

2005

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
Kronk's New Groove as Pacha (voice)
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast as Self - Presenter

2004

Father of the Pride as Larry (voice)
Center of the Universe as John Barnett
Beyond the Sea as Steve Blauner
Clifford's Really Big Movie as George Wolfsbottom (voice)
Freshman Orientation as Rodney

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
The Jungle Book 2 as Baloo (voice)
Masked and Anonymous as Uncle Sweetheart
Overnight as Self

2002

Mike's New Car as Sulley (voice)
Dirty Deeds as Tony
The Sweatbox as Self

2001

Monsters, Inc. as Sullivan (voice)
One Night at McCool's as Detective Dehling
Storytelling as Marty Livingston
On the Edge as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
My First Mister as Benjamin
When Dinosaurs Roamed America as Narrator
The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool as Self

2000

Ed as Big Rudy
The Emperor's New Groove as Pacha (voice)
Coyote Ugly as Bill
O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Big Dan Teague
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle as Oklahoma Cop
Pigs Next Door as Phil (voice)
Normal, Ohio as William "Butch" Gamble
What Planet Are You From? as Roland Jones

1999

The West Wing as Glenallen Walken
Futurama as Robot Santa Claus (voice)
SpongeBob SquarePants as Santa Claus (voice)
Now and Again
Bringing Out the Dead as Larry Verber
The Jack Bull as Judge Tolliver
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special as Self
The Runner as Deepthroat
Discovering Bedrock as Self
Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood as Himself

1998

The Big Lebowski as Walter Sobchak
Fallen as Jonesy
Blues Brothers 2000 as Mighty Mack McTeer
Dirty Work as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie as Santa Claus (voice)
The Real Macaw as Mac (voice)
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski' as Self

1997

King of the Hill as Tommy (voice)
Soul Man as Capt. Stan Hamel
The Borrowers as Ocious P. Potter

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
Grace Under Fire as Police Officer
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story as Rex (voice)
Matinee as Lawrence Woolsey
Born Yesterday as Harry Brock
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration as Self (segment "New Way to Walk")

1992

The Jackie Thomas Show as Dan Conner
The Babe as Babe Ruth
Frosty Returns as Frosty the Snowman (voice)
A Friend in New Orleans as Himself

1991

Barton Fink as Charlie Meadows
King Ralph as Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones

1990

Grand as Red
Arachnophobia as Delbert McClintock
Stella as Ed Munn
American Chronicles as self
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash as Self - Host

1989

The Simpsons as Meathook (voice)
Sea of Love as Sherman
Always as Al Yackey

1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
Roseanne as Dan Conner
Punchline as John Krytsick
Everybody's All-American as Lawrence
The Wrong Guys as Duke Earle
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant as Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")

1987

Raising Arizona as Gale
Murder Ordained as Hugh Rayburn
Burglar as Detective Nyswander
Murder Ordained as Hugh Rayburn

1986

The Big Easy as Andre DeSoto
True Stories as Louis Fyne

1985

The Equalizer as Harold Winter
Moonlighting as Donald Chase
Sweet Dreams as Otis

1984

Revenge of the Nerds as Coach Harris
Maria's Lovers as Frank
C.H.U.D. as Cop in Diner

1983

Eddie Macon's Run as Mr. Hebert
The Survivors as Commando
Heart of Steel as Raymond Bohupinsky
The Face of Rage as Fred

1980

The Robber Bridegroom as Townsperson
The Mystery of the Morro Castle as Telegraph Operator

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1967

CMA Awards as Self

1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self

1953

The Oscars as Self

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner