John Goodman
Acting
🎂 1952-06-20
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Goodman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast credits(203)
Self
2005
Self
2014
Self
1962
Tommy (voice)
1997
Meathook (voice)
1989
Self
2014
Self - Guest
1993
Eli Gemstone
2019
Robot Santa Claus (voice)
1999
2003
Self
2003
Vice Dean Laybourne
2009
Harold Winter
1985
Dan Conner
2018
Pacha (voice)
2006
Bill Randa
2023
Bill Randa (archive footage)
2023
Donald Chase
1985
Glenallen Walken
1999
Phil (voice)
2000
Self - Host
1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
Howard Erickson
2007
Sulley (voice)
2021
Self
1953
Big Rudy
2000
Dan Conner
1992
Red
1990
Police Officer
1993
Judge Robert Bebe
2006
Senator Gil John Biggs
2013
Sullivan (voice)
2001
Self
2023
Capt. Stan Hamel
1997
Santa Claus (voice)
1999
Michael Ennis
2018
Dan Conner
1988
Papa Smurf (voice)
2025
(archive footage)
2007
Pacha (voice)
2000
Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice)
2021
Bill Randa
2017
Hound (voice)
2014
Sullivan Truck (voice)
2006
Hound (voice)
2017
"Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
2009
2010
Creighton Bernette
2010
William "Butch" Gamble
2000
Marshall
2013
1996
Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
2007
Walter Sobchak
1998
Sullivan (voice)
2013
Masterson
2013
Larry (voice)
2004
Igon Siruss (voice)
2017
John Chambers
2012
Howard
2016
Self
1996
1999
Michael Wiseman
1999
Harling Mays
2012
Emmett Kurzfeld
2017
Big Dan Teague
2000
Narrator
2010
Self
1994
Pops Racer
2008
Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
2012
Fred Flintstone
1994
John Barnett
2004
Jonesy
1998
Pacha (voice)
2005
Congressman Long
2007
Pete Klein
2012
Bill
2000
Sgt. Walter Garfield
2014
Graham Bloomwood
2009
1994
Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
1998
Gale
1987
Frank
2014
Commisioner Ed Davis
2016
Charlie Meadows
1991
Himself
2019
Newsreel Announcer (voice)
1994
Al Zimmer
2011
Narrator (voice)
2023
Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
2012
Baloo (voice)
2003
Roland Turner
2013
Sherman
1989
Ocious P. Potter
1997
Mighty Mack McTeer
1998
Larry Verber
1999
Rex (voice)
1993
Grimroth (voice)
2016
Stan the Doorman
2011
Dave Phillips
2017
Al Yackey
1989
Sam Cooper
2015
Frosty the Snowman (voice)
1992
Delbert McClintock
1990
Bones Darley
2007
Coach Harris
1984
Newt 'Tub' Murray
1983
Oklahoma Cop
2000
William Mulligan
2019
Frank King
2015
James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
2007
Joseph Keenan
2011
Lawrence Woolsey
1993
Frank
1984
2026
Hugh Rayburn
1987
Sulley (voice)
2002
Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones
1991
Judge Tolliver
1999
Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
2009
Sullivan (voice)
2014
Cop in Diner
1984
Uncle Sweetheart
2003
1996
Santa Claus (voice)
1998
John Krytsick
1988
Neal Nicol
2010
Santa Claus
2012
Detective Nyswander
1987
Mayor Adrian Riggins (Uncredited)
2025
Andre DeSoto
1986
(archive footage)
2012
Marty Livingston
2001
Babe Ruth
1992
Houston (voice)
2015
Self
1999
Pope Sergius II.
2009
Self - Actor
2015
Mr. Hebert
1983
Self - Presenter
2005
George Wolfsbottom (voice)
2004
Louis Fyne
1986
Paul Bunyan (voice)
2017
Detective Dehling
2001
Benjamin
2001
Lawrence
1988
Major Frank Wirtanen
1996
Happy's Father
2008
Self
2003
Tough Guy Helpline Operator
1994
Hugh Rayburn
1987
Roland Jones
2000
Steve Blauner
2004
Steve Mills
2006
Self
2013
The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
2001
Narrator
2013
Harry Brock
1993
Self
2014
Himself
2014
Rodney
2004
Commando
1983
Duke Earle
1988
Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
1995
2007
Otis
1985
Ed Munn
1990
Self
2002
Self
1995
Mr. Fletcher
2012
2019
Himself - Narrator
2008
Santa Claus
2006
Fred
1983
Mac (voice)
1998
Tony
2002
Capt. Edwin Simmons
2009
"Catfish" Crawford (voice)
2020
Alan Davenport
1996
Self
2001
Mr. Wellington
2009
Self
1998
Self
2014
Narrator
2001
Telegraph Operator
1980
Huey P. Long, Jr.
1995
2012
Ed Roth (voice)
2006
Self
2013
Self
2015
Himself
1999
Raymond Bohupinsky
1983
Sulley (voice)
2009
Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
2013
Self
2012
Deepthroat
1999
Self - Host
1990
Mortimer J Hamm
2009
Townsperson
1980
Louis Fyne
2018
2020
Narrator
2017
Narrator
2011