John Goodman
Acting • Born 1952-06-20
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
210 credits
The Big Lebowski
Movie • 1998
Walter Sobchak
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Movie • 2000
Big Dan Teague
Barton Fink
Movie • 1991
Charlie Meadows
The Flintstones
Movie • 1994
Fred Flintstone
Raising Arizona
Movie • 1987
Gale
Monsters, Inc.
Movie • 2001
Sullivan (voice)
One Night at McCool's
Movie • 2001
Detective Dehling
The Princess and the Frog
Movie • 2009
"Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
Mother Night
Movie • 1996
Major Frank Wirtanen
Evan Almighty
Movie • 2007
Congressman Long
What Planet Are You From?
Movie • 2000
Roland Jones
King Ralph
Movie • 1991
Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Movie • 2009
Graham Bloomwood
The Big Easy
Movie • 1986
Andre DeSoto
Bee Movie
Movie • 2007
Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
Always
Movie • 1989
Al Yackey
The Wrong Guys
Movie • 1988
Duke Earle
Beyond the Sea
Movie • 2004
Steve Blauner
Arachnophobia
Movie • 1990
Delbert McClintock
The Emperor's New Groove
Movie • 2000
Pacha (voice)
Blues Brothers 2000
Movie • 1998
Mighty Mack McTeer
Dirty Deeds
Movie • 2002
Tony
Speed Racer
Movie • 2008
Pops Racer
Coyote Ugly
Movie • 2000
Bill
Death Sentence
Movie • 2007
Bones Darley
Masked and Anonymous
Movie • 2003
Uncle Sweetheart
True Stories
Movie • 1986
Louis Fyne
Bringing Out the Dead
Movie • 1999
Larry Verber
Sea of Love
Movie • 1989
Sherman
Matinee
Movie • 1993
Lawrence Woolsey
Fallen
Movie • 1998
Jonesy
My First Mister
Movie • 2001
Benjamin
The Borrowers
Movie • 1997
Ocious P. Potter
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Movie • 2005
Self - Presenter
Pope Joan
Movie • 2009
Pope Sergius II.
Everybody's All-American
Movie • 1988
Lawrence
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Movie • 1998
Santa Claus (voice)
Kronk's New Groove
Movie • 2005
Pacha (voice)
Frosty Returns
Movie • 1993
Frosty the Snowman (voice)
Punchline
Movie • 1988
John Krytsick
The Survivors
Movie • 1983
Commando
Mike's New Car
Movie • 2002
Sulley (voice)
In the Electric Mist
Movie • 2009
Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
Revenge of the Nerds
Movie • 1984
Coach Harris
Freshman Orientation
Movie • 2004
Rodney
Sweet Dreams
Movie • 1985
Otis
You Don't Know Jack
Movie • 2010
Neal Nicol
The Jungle Book 2
Movie • 2003
Baloo (voice)
Gigantic
Movie • 2008
Happy's Father
Tales of the Rat Fink
Movie • 2006
Ed Roth (voice)
The Babe
Movie • 1992
Babe Ruth
The Face of Rage
Movie • 1983
Fred
Monsters University
Movie • 2013
Sullivan (voice)
Born Yesterday
Movie • 1993
Harry Brock
The Jack Bull
Movie • 1999
Judge Tolliver
Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood
Movie • 1999
Himself
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Movie • 2011
Stan the Doorman
Burglar
Movie • 1987
Detective Nyswander
Stella
Movie • 1990
Ed Munn
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
Movie • 2000
Oklahoma Cop
Dirty Work
Movie • 1998
Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
Red State
Movie • 2011
Joseph Keenan
Argo
Movie • 2012
John Chambers
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Movie • 1993
Rex (voice)
Clifford's Really Big Movie
Movie • 2004
George Wolfsbottom (voice)
Alabama Moon
Movie • 2009
Mr. Wellington
New Orleans: The First 300 Years
Movie • 2017
Narrator
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Movie • 2006
Steve Mills
The Real Macaw
Movie • 1998
Mac (voice)
The Artist
Movie • 2011
Al Zimmer
Girls Gone Gangsta
Movie • 2009
Mortimer J Hamm
Drunkboat
Movie • 2012
Mr. Fletcher
ParaNorman
Movie • 2012
Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
Inside Llewyn Davis
Movie • 2013
Roland Turner
Maria's Lovers
Movie • 1984
Frank
Trouble with the Curve
Movie • 2012
Pete Klein
The Sweatbox
Movie • 2002
Self
The Hangover Part III
Movie • 2013
Marshall
The Monuments Men
Movie • 2014
Sgt. Walter Garfield
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans
Movie • 2008
Narrator (voice)
The Internship
Movie • 2013
Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Movie • 1995
Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
Movie • 2023
Narrator (voice)
The Runner
Movie • 1999
Deepthroat
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
Movie • 2001
Narrator
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie • 1995
Self
Flight
Movie • 2012
Harling Mays
The Pixar Story
Movie • 2007
James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
Party Central
Movie • 2014
Sullivan (voice)
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
Movie • 1995
Huey P. Long, Jr.
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Movie • 2014
Hound (voice)
C.H.U.D.
Movie • 1984
Cop in Diner
On the Edge
Movie • 2001
The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Movie • 2014
Self
The Gambler
Movie • 2014
Frank
Trumbo
Movie • 2015
Frank King
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
Movie • 2012
Santa Claus
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
Cars
Movie • 2006
Sullivan Truck (voice)
Love the Coopers
Movie • 2015
Sam Cooper
10 Cloverfield Lane
Movie • 2016
Howard
Milius
Movie • 2013
Self
Live from New York!
Movie • 2015
Self
Ratchet & Clank
Movie • 2016
Grimroth (voice)
Evolution Within Extinction
Movie • 2014
Self
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
Movie • 2015
Hal Houston (voice)
Transformers: The Last Knight
Movie • 2017
Hound (voice)
The Hudsucker Proxy
Movie • 1994
Newsreel Announcer (voice)
Storytelling
Movie • 2001
Marty Livingston
Murder Ordained
Movie • 1987
Hugh Rayburn
Smurfs
Movie • 2025
Papa Smurf (voice)
Pie in the Sky
Movie • 1996
Alan Davenport
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Movie • 2006
Santa Claus
All Star Bowling Trick Shots
Movie • 2012
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Movie • 2017
Igon Siruss (voice)
Kong: Skull Island
Movie • 2017
Bill Randa
Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective
Movie • 2013
Self
Atomic Blonde
Movie • 2017
Emmett Kurzfeld
Patriots Day
Movie • 2016
Commisioner Ed Davis
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Movie • 2015
Self - Actor
Heart of Steel
Movie • 1983
Raymond Bohupinsky
All-Stars
Movie • 2014
Himself
Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night
Movie • 2011
Narrator
Captive State
Movie • 2019
William Mulligan
Digger
Movie • 2026
Bunyan and Babe
Movie • 2017
Paul Bunyan (voice)
The Mystery of the Morro Castle
Movie • 1980
Telegraph Operator
Once Upon a Time in Venice
Movie • 2017
Dave Phillips
Overnight
Movie • 2003
Self
Eddie Macon's Run
Movie • 1983
Mr. Hebert
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
Movie • 1990
Self - Host
The Campaign
Movie • 2012
Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
The Book of Manning
Movie • 2013
Narrator
Beyond All Boundaries
Movie • 2009
Capt. Edwin Simmons
The Artist: The Making of an American Romance
Movie • 2012
Self
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
Movie • 2019
Self
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'
Movie • 1998
Self
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Movie • 1999
Self
Easy Does It
Movie • 2020
"Catfish" Crawford (voice)
The Robber Bridegroom
Movie • 1980
Townsperson
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Movie • 1994
Tough Guy Helpline Operator
Chili Finger
Movie • 2026
Real Life
Movie • 2018
Louis Fyne
The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool
Movie • 2001
Self
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
Movie • 1988
Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Monsters Funday Football
Movie • 2025
Sulley (Voice)
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever
Movie • 2025
Doodle (voice)
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
Movie • 2007
Self
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
Movie • 1993
Self (segment "New Way to Walk")
Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family
Movie • 2008
Pops Racer
Discovering Bedrock
Movie • 1999
Self
Speed Racer: Car Fu
Movie • 2008
Self
Father of the Pride
TV • 2004
Larry (voice)
Now and Again
TV • 1999
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Meathook (voice)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
Futurama
TV • 1999
Robot Santa Claus (voice)
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
TV • 2006
Judge Robert Bebe
King of the Hill
TV • 1997
Tommy (voice)
Ed
TV • 2000
Big Rudy
Moonlighting
TV • 1985
Donald Chase
Roseanne
TV • 1988
Dan Conner
The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Harold Winter
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Muppets Tonight
TV • 1996
Self
Normal, Ohio
TV • 2000
William "Butch" Gamble
Center of the Universe
TV • 2004
John Barnett
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
TV • 2005
Self
Saturday Night Special
TV • 1996
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Treme
TV • 2010
Treme
TV • 2010
Creighton Bernette
Best Food Ever
TV • 2010
Narrator
Downwardly Mobile
TV • 1994
Soul Man
TV • 1997
Capt. Stan Hamel
Chiefs
TV • 1983
Newt 'Tub' Murray
Community
TV • 2009
Vice Dean Laybourne
Alpha House
TV • 2013
Senator Gil John Biggs
The Freak Brothers
TV • 2021
Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
SpongeBob SquarePants
TV • 1999
Santa Claus (voice)
Damages
TV • 2007
Howard Erickson
The West Wing
TV • 1999
Glenallen Walken
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
TV • 2023
Bill Randa
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
TV • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Grace Under Fire
TV • 1993
Police Officer
The Jackie Thomas Show
TV • 1992
Dan Conner
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Conners
TV • 2018
Dan Conner
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
TV • 2023
Bill Randa (archive footage)
Black Earth Rising
TV • 2018
Michael Ennis
Biography: Comedy Icons
TV • 2019
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The Righteous Gemstones
TV • 2019
Eli Gemstone
Pigs Next Door
TV • 2000
Phil (voice)
Murder Ordained
TV • 1987
Hugh Rayburn
Dancing on the Edge
TV • 2013
Masterson
Now and Again
TV • 1999
Michael Wiseman
Monsters at Work
TV • 2021
Sulley (voice)
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2023
Self
Off Camera with Sam Jones
TV • 2014
Self
Ruby Wax Meets
TV • 1996
The Emperor's New School
TV • 2006
Pacha (voice)
Grand
TV • 1990
Red
CMA Awards
TV • 1967
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Winner
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest