Acting
John Goodman
PT, EN, HU, FR cinema · 158 credits
Born
20 June 1952 (age 74)
Birthplace
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Also known as Karl Mundt · John Stephen Goodman · Jonathan Stephen 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 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.
Known for
Filmography
Digger
as President Compson
Chili Finger
as Blake Jr., Executive Producer
Smurfs
as Papa Smurf (voice)
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
as Self (archive footage)
Monsters Funday Football
as Sulley (Voice)
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever
as Doodle (voice)
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
as Narrator (voice)
Easy Does It
as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)
Captive State
as William Mulligan
Real Life
2018
Real Life
as Louis Fyne
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Hound (voice)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as Igon Siruss (voice)
Kong: Skull Island
as Bill Randa
Atomic Blonde
as Emmett Kurzfeld
Bunyan and Babe
as Paul Bunyan (voice)
Once Upon a Time in Venice
as Dave Phillips
10 Cloverfield Lane
as Howard
Ratchet & Clank
as Grimroth (voice)
Patriots Day
as Commisioner Ed Davis
Trumbo
as Frank King
Love the Coopers
as Sam Cooper
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
as Hal Houston (voice)
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
as Self - Actor
The Monuments Men
as Sgt. Walter Garfield
Party Central
as Sullivan (voice)
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Hound (voice)
The Gambler
as Frank
All-Stars
as Himself
Monsters University
as Sullivan (voice)
Inside Llewyn Davis
as Roland Turner
The Hangover Part III
as Marshall
The Internship
as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
Milius
as Self
The Book of Manning
as Narrator
Argo
as John Chambers
Drunkboat
as Mr. Fletcher
ParaNorman
as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
Trouble with the Curve
as Pete Klein
Flight
as Harling Mays
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
as Santa Claus
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
The Campaign
as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Stan the Doorman
Red State
as Joseph Keenan
The Artist
as Al Zimmer
You Don't Know Jack
as Neal Nicol
The Princess and the Frog
as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
Confessions of a Shopaholic
as Graham Bloomwood
Pope Joan
as Pope Sergius II.
In the Electric Mist
as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
Alabama Moon
as Mr. Wellington
Girls Gone Gangsta
as Mortimer J Hamm
Beyond All Boundaries
as Capt. Edwin Simmons
Speed Racer
as Pops
Gigantic
as Happy's Father
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans
as Narrator (voice)
Evan Almighty
as Congressman Long
Bee Movie
as Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
Death Sentence
as Bones Darley
The Pixar Story
as James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
Tales of the Rat Fink
as Ed Roth (voice)
Cars
as Sullivan Truck (voice)
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Santa Claus
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
as Self - Presenter
Kronk's New Groove
as Pacha (voice)
Beyond the Sea
as Steve Blauner
Freshman Orientation
as Rodney
Clifford's Really Big Movie
as George Wolfsbottom (voice)
Masked and Anonymous
as Uncle Sweetheart
The Jungle Book 2
as Baloo (voice)
Overnight
as Self
Dirty Deeds
as Tony
Mike's New Car
as Sulley (voice)
The Sweatbox
as Self
Monsters, Inc.
as Sullivan (voice)
One Night at McCool's
as Detective Dehling
My First Mister
as Benjamin
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
as Narrator
On the Edge
as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
Storytelling
as Marty Livingston
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
as Big Dan Teague
What Planet Are You From?
as Roland Jones
The Emperor's New Groove
as Pacha (voice)
Coyote Ugly
as Bill
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
as Oklahoma Cop
Bringing Out the Dead
as Larry Verber
The Jack Bull
as Judge Tolliver
The Runner
as Deepthroat
The Big Lebowski
as Walter Sobchak
Blues Brothers 2000
as Mighty Mack McTeer
Fallen
as Jonesy
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
as Santa Claus (voice)
Dirty Work
as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
The Real Macaw
as Mac (voice)
The Borrowers
as Ocious P. Potter
Mother Night
as Major Frank Wirtanen
Pie in the Sky
as Alan Davenport
A Streetcar Named Desire
as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
as Huey P. Long, Jr.
The Flintstones
as Fred Flintstone
The Hudsucker Proxy
as Newsreel Announcer (voice)
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Tough Guy Helpline Operator
Matinee
as Lawrence Woolsey
Born Yesterday
as Harry Brock
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
as Rex (voice)
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
as Self (segment "New Way to Walk")
Frosty Returns
as Frosty the Snowman (voice)
The Babe
as Babe Ruth
The Future Is Now
as Businessman
Barton Fink
as Charlie Meadows
King Ralph
as Ralph
Arachnophobia
as Delbert McClintock
Stella
as Ed Munn
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
as Self - Host
Always
as Al Yackey
Sea of Love
as Sherman
The Wrong Guys
as Duke Earle
Everybody's All-American
as Lawrence
Punchline
as John Krytsick
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
as Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")
Raising Arizona
as Gale
Burglar
as Detective Nyswander
Murder Ordained
as Hugh Rayburn
The Big Easy
as Andre DeSoto
True Stories
as Louis Fyne
Sweet Dreams
as Otis
Revenge of the Nerds
as Coach Harris
Maria's Lovers
as Frank
C.H.U.D.
as Cop in Diner
The Survivors
as Commando
Heart of Steel
as Raymond Bohupinsky
Eddie Macon's Run
as Mr. Hebert
The Mystery of the Morro Castle
1980
The Mystery of the Morro Castle
as Telegraph Operator
The Robber Bridegroom
as Townsperson