John Goodman
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 20, 1952
- Birthplace
- 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 various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Vanity Fair has called him "among our very finest actors". Goodman is known for his collaborations with the Coen brothers, appearing in films such as Raising Arizona (1987), Barton Fink (1991), The Big Lebowski (1998), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). He took leading roles in King Ralph (1991), The Babe (1992), Matinee (1993), The Flintstones (1994), and 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) as well as supporting roles in Revenge of the Nerds (1984), True Stories (1986), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Evan Almighty (2007), Speed Racer (2008), The Artist (2011), Flight (2012), Argo (2012), and Atomic Blonde (2017). He voiced roles in The Emperor's New Groove franchise (2000–2008), the Monsters, Inc. franchise (2001–present), Bee Movie (2007) and Smurfs (2025). On television, Goodman gained recognition playing the family patriarch Dan Conner in the ABC comedy series Roseanne (1988–1997; 2018), and The Conners (2018–2025). Goodman has played an English professor in the drama series Treme (2010–2011), a military contractor in the legal drama series Damages (2011), a Republican senator in the political satire Alpha House (2013–2014), and a televangelist in the comedy series The Righteous Gemstones (2019–2025). He also guest-starred in The West Wing (2003–2004), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006), and Community (2011–2012), and is a member of the Five Timers Club, having hosted Saturday Night Live 13 times from 1989 to 2013. 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 Beckett play Waiting for Godot (2009), and the newspaper comedy The Front Page (2016). Goodman made his West End debut in a revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo (2015). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Goodman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
- Monsters, Inc. 3
Monsters, Inc. 3 TBA
as Sullivan (voice)
- Skeletons
Skeletons 2027
Actor
Digger 2026
as President Compson
Chili Finger 2026
as Blake Jr., Executive Producer
Monsters Funday Football 2025
as Sulley (Voice)
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever 2025
as Doodle (voice)
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special 2025
as Self (archive footage)
Smurfs 2025
as Papa Smurf (voice)
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain 2023
as Narrator (voice)
Easy Does It 2020
as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh 2019
as Self
Captive State 2019
as William Mulligan
- Real Life
Real Life 2018
as Louis Fyne
Atomic Blonde 2017
as Emmett Kurzfeld
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 2017
as Igon Siruss (voice)
Transformers: The Last Knight 2017
as Hound (voice)
Once Upon a Time in Venice 2017
as Dave Phillips
Kong: Skull Island 2017
as Bill Randa
Bunyan and Babe 2017
as Paul Bunyan (voice)
New Orleans: The First 300 Years 2017
as Narrator
Patriots Day 2016
as Commisioner Ed Davis
Ratchet & Clank 2016
as Grimroth (voice)
10 Cloverfield Lane 2016
as Howard
Love the Coopers 2015
as Sam Cooper
Trumbo 2015
as Frank King
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead 2015
as Self - Actor
Live from New York! 2015
as Self
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle 2015
as Hal Houston (voice)
The Gambler 2014
as Frank
All-Stars 2014
as Himself
Evolution Within Extinction 2014
as Self
Transformers: Age of Extinction 2014
as Hound (voice)
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' 2014
as Self
Party Central 2014
as Sullivan (voice)
The Monuments Men 2014
as Sgt. Walter Garfield
Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective 2013
as Self
Inside Llewyn Davis 2013
as Roland Turner
The Book of Manning 2013
as Narrator
Monsters University 2013
as Sullivan (voice)
The Internship 2013
as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
The Hangover Part III 2013
as Marshall
Milius 2013
as Self
All Star Bowling Trick Shots 2012
Actor
It's a SpongeBob Christmas! 2012
as Santa Claus
Argo 2012
as John Chambers
Trouble with the Curve 2012
as Pete Klein
The Campaign 2012
as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
ParaNorman 2012
as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
Drunkboat 2012
as Mr. Fletcher
The Artist: The Making of an American Romance 2012
as Self
Flight 2012
as Harling Mays
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen 2012
as (archive footage)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 2011
as Stan the Doorman
The Artist 2011
as Al Zimmer
Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night 2011
as Narrator
Red State 2011
as Joseph Keenan
You Don't Know Jack 2010
as Neal Nicol
- The Station
The Station 2009
as Ted Gannon
The Princess and the Frog 2009
as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
Beyond All Boundaries 2009
as Capt. Edwin Simmons
Alabama Moon 2009
as Mr. Wellington
Pope Joan 2009
as Pope Sergius II.
In the Electric Mist 2009
as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
Confessions of a Shopaholic 2009
as Graham Bloomwood
Girls Gone Gangsta 2009
as Mortimer J Hamm
Speed Racer: Car Fu 2008
as Self
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans 2008
as Narrator (voice)
Gigantic 2008
as Happy's Father
Speed Racer 2008
as Pops
Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family 2008
as Pops Racer
- A Sewer Runs Through It
A Sewer Runs Through It 2008
as Narrator
Bee Movie 2007
as Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
Death Sentence 2007
as Bones Darley
The Pixar Story 2007
as James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
Evan Almighty 2007
as Congressman Long
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation 2007
as Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus 2006
as Santa Claus
Cars 2006
as Sullivan Truck (voice)
Tales of the Rat Fink 2006
as Ed Roth (voice)
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School 2006
as Steve Mills
Kronk's New Groove 2005
as Pacha (voice)
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast 2005
as Self - Presenter
Beyond the Sea 2004
as Steve Blauner
Clifford's Really Big Movie 2004
as George Wolfsbottom (voice)
Freshman Orientation 2004
as Rodney
Masked and Anonymous 2003
as Uncle Sweetheart
Overnight 2003
as Self
The Jungle Book 2 2003
as Baloo (voice)
The Sweatbox 2002
as Self
Dirty Deeds 2002
as Tony
Mike's New Car 2002
as Sulley (voice)
Storytelling 2001
as Marty Livingston
Monsters, Inc. 2001
as Sullivan (voice)
My First Mister 2001
as Benjamin
When Dinosaurs Roamed America 2001
as Narrator
On the Edge 2001
as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
One Night at McCool's 2001
as Detective Dehling
The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool 2001
as Self
The Emperor's New Groove 2000
as Pacha (voice)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000
as Big Dan Teague
Coyote Ugly 2000
as Bill
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle 2000
as Oklahoma Cop
What Planet Are You From? 2000
as Roland Jones
Bringing Out the Dead 1999
as Larry Verber
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special 1999
as Self
The Runner 1999
as Deepthroat
The Jack Bull 1999
as Judge Tolliver
Discovering Bedrock 1999
as Self
Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood 1999
as Himself
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski' 1998
as Self
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie 1998
as Santa Claus (voice)
The Real Macaw 1998
as Mac (voice)
Dirty Work 1998
as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
The Big Lebowski 1998
as Walter Sobchak
Blues Brothers 2000 1998
as Mighty Mack McTeer
Fallen 1998
as Jonesy
The Borrowers 1997
as Ocious P. Potter
Mother Night 1996
as Major Frank Wirtanen
Pie in the Sky 1996
as Alan Davenport
A Streetcar Named Desire 1995
as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies 1995
as Self
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long 1995
as Huey P. Long, Jr.
The Flintstones 1994
as Fred Flintstone
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! 1994
as Tough Guy Helpline Operator
The Hudsucker Proxy 1994
as Newsreel Announcer (voice)
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story 1993
as Rex (voice)
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration 1993
as Self (segment "New Way to Walk")
Born Yesterday 1993
as Harry Brock
Matinee 1993
as Lawrence Woolsey
Frosty Returns 1992
as Frosty the Snowman (voice)
The Babe 1992
as Babe Ruth
A Friend in New Orleans 1992
as Himself
The Future Is Now 1992
as Businessman
Barton Fink 1991
as Charlie Meadows
King Ralph 1991
as Ralph
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash 1990
as Self - Host
Arachnophobia 1990
as Delbert McClintock
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years 1990
as Self
Stella 1990
as Ed Munn
Always 1989
as Al Yackey
Sea of Love 1989
as Sherman
Everybody's All-American 1988
as Lawrence
Punchline 1988
as John Krytsick
The Wrong Guys 1988
as Duke Earle
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant 1988
as Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")
Murder Ordained 1987
as Hugh Rayburn
Burglar 1987
as Detective Nyswander
Raising Arizona 1987
as Gale
The Big Easy 1986
as Andre DeSoto
True Stories 1986
as Louis Fyne
Sweet Dreams 1985
as Otis
C.H.U.D. 1984
as Cop in Diner
Revenge of the Nerds 1984
as Coach Harris
Maria's Lovers 1984
as Frank
Heart of Steel 1983
as Raymond Bohupinsky
The Survivors 1983
as Commando
Eddie Macon's Run 1983
as Mr. Hebert
- The Face of Rage
The Face of Rage 1983
as Fred
The Robber Bridegroom 1980
as Townsperson
- The Mystery of the Morro Castle
The Mystery of the Morro Castle 1980
as Telegraph Operator
Credits from TMDB.