John Goodman
Acting
Born: June 20, 1952 (age 74) · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Highest Rated
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 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
Monsters, Inc.
2001
Cars
2006
The Big Lebowski
1998
Monsters University
2013
Kong: Skull Island
2017
The Simpsons
1989
The Hangover Part III
2013
Argo
2012
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
10 Cloverfield Lane
2016
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017
The Emperor's New Groove
2000
Photos (10)
Movies (128)
Digger
President Compson
The Princess and the Frog
"Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
Monsters, Inc.
Sullivan (voice)
The Emperor's New Groove
Pacha (voice)
The Big Lebowski
Walter Sobchak
Smurfs
Papa Smurf (voice)
Kong: Skull Island
Bill Randa
The Monuments Men
Sgt. Walter Garfield
Monsters University
Sullivan (voice)
10 Cloverfield Lane
Howard
Fallen
Jonesy
Atomic Blonde
Emmett Kurzfeld
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Big Dan Teague
Cars
Sullivan Truck (voice)
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Graham Bloomwood
Mike's New Car
Sulley (voice)
The Hangover Part III
Marshall
Evan Almighty
Congressman Long
Transformers: The Last Knight
Hound (voice)
Trouble with the Curve
Pete Klein
The Artist
Al Zimmer
Raising Arizona
Gale
Bringing Out the Dead
Larry Verber
The Jungle Book 2
Baloo (voice)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Igon Siruss (voice)
Inside Llewyn Davis
Roland Turner
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Hound (voice)
Patriots Day
Commisioner Ed Davis
The Pixar Story
James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
Bee Movie
Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
Trumbo
Frank King
Speed Racer
Pops
Flight
Harling Mays
Captive State
William Mulligan
Kronk's New Groove
Pacha (voice)
Argo
John Chambers
Coyote Ugly
Bill
ParaNorman
Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Stan the Doorman
The Gambler
Frank
The Flintstones
Fred Flintstone
Burglar
Detective Nyswander
The Hudsucker Proxy
Newsreel Announcer (voice)
C.H.U.D.
Cop in Diner
Pope Joan
Pope Sergius II.
Sea of Love
Sherman
Ratchet & Clank
Grimroth (voice)
Matinee
Lawrence Woolsey
Love the Coopers
Sam Cooper
The Campaign
Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
King Ralph
Ralph
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Rex (voice)
What Planet Are You From?
Roland Jones
Storytelling
Marty Livingston
Party Central
Sullivan (voice)
Death Sentence
Bones Darley
Red State
Joseph Keenan
Punchline
John Krytsick
Beyond the Sea
Steve Blauner
Blues Brothers 2000
Mighty Mack McTeer
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
Narrator (voice)
The Big Easy
Andre DeSoto
Everybody's All-American
Lawrence
The Borrowers
Ocious P. Potter
In the Electric Mist
Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
Revenge of the Nerds
Coach Harris
Dirty Work
Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
Masked and Anonymous
Uncle Sweetheart
Always
Al Yackey
My First Mister
Benjamin
Once Upon a Time in Venice
Dave Phillips
Barton Fink
Charlie Meadows
Clifford's Really Big Movie
George Wolfsbottom (voice)
The Babe
Babe Ruth
Freshman Orientation
Rodney
The Jack Bull
Judge Tolliver
Stella
Ed Munn
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
Oklahoma Cop
Maria's Lovers
Frank
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Santa Claus (voice)
One Night at McCool's
Detective Dehling
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
Santa Claus
You Don't Know Jack
Neal Nicol
Arachnophobia
Delbert McClintock
True Stories
Louis Fyne
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
Hal Houston (voice)
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Santa Claus
Chili Finger
Blake Jr.
Mother Night
Major Frank Wirtanen
Murder Ordained
Hugh Rayburn
Pie in the Sky
Alan Davenport
Sweet Dreams
Otis
The Book of Manning
Narrator
Born Yesterday
Harry Brock
Dirty Deeds
Tony
The Wrong Guys
Duke Earle
Gigantic
Happy's Father
Drunkboat
Mr. Fletcher
Eddie Macon's Run
Mr. Hebert
On the Edge
The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
Monsters Funday Football
Sulley (Voice)
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Tough Guy Helpline Operator
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")
New Orleans: The First 300 Years
Narrator
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever
Doodle (voice)
The Survivors
Commando
Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family
Pops Racer
Frosty Returns
Frosty the Snowman (voice)
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans
Narrator (voice)
Easy Does It
"Catfish" Crawford (voice)
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Steve Mills
Tales of the Rat Fink
Ed Roth (voice)
Beyond All Boundaries
Capt. Edwin Simmons
Bunyan and Babe
Paul Bunyan (voice)
Heart of Steel
Raymond Bohupinsky
The Robber Bridegroom
Townsperson
Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night
Narrator
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
Huey P. Long, Jr.
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
Narrator
The Real Macaw
Mac (voice)
All Star Bowling Trick Shots
2012
The Future Is Now
Businessman
Alabama Moon
Mr. Wellington
The Runner
Deepthroat
Girls Gone Gangsta
Mortimer J Hamm
The Internship
Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
TV Shows (42)
The Simpsons
Meathook (voice) · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Linda Tripp (uncredited) · 3 eps
Saturday Night Live
Nathan Barnett (uncredited) · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
The Ghost of SNL Hosts Presents (uncredited) · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Linda Tripp (voice) (uncredited) · 1 eps
King of the Hill
Tommy (voice) · 1 eps
The West Wing
Glenallen Walken · 4 eps
Futurama
Robot Santa Claus (voice) · 1 eps
Damages
Howard Erickson · 10 eps
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Bill Randa · 1 eps
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Bill Randa (archive footage) · 1 eps
The Conners
Dan Conner · 112 eps
Community
Vice Dean Laybourne · 6 eps
Moonlighting
Donald Chase · 1 eps
The Equalizer
Harold Winter · 1 eps
The Righteous Gemstones
Eli Gemstone · 36 eps
The Emperor's New School
Pacha (voice) · 57 eps
Monsters at Work
Sulley (voice) · 18 eps
SpongeBob SquarePants
Santa Claus (voice) · 1 eps
Treme
9 eps
Treme
Creighton Bernette · 10 eps
Ed
Big Rudy · 1 eps
Grace Under Fire
Police Officer · 1 eps
Black Earth Rising
Michael Ennis · 8 eps
Father of the Pride
Larry (voice) · 13 eps
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Judge Robert Bebe · 2 eps
Alpha House
Senator Gil John Biggs · 21 eps
The Freak Brothers
Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice) · 22 eps
Roseanne
Dan Conner · 231 eps
The Jackie Thomas Show
Dan Conner · 1 eps
Grand
Red · 1 eps
Now and Again
1 eps
Now and Again
Michael Wiseman · 1 eps
Dancing on the Edge
Masterson · 5 eps
Center of the Universe
John Barnett · 10 eps
Normal, Ohio
William "Butch" Gamble · 12 eps
Soul Man
Capt. Stan Hamel · 25 eps
Ruby Wax Meets
1 eps
Pigs Next Door
Phil (voice) · 13 eps
Murder Ordained
Hugh Rayburn · 2 eps
Downwardly Mobile
7 eps
Best Food Ever
Narrator · 6 eps
Self / Appearances (44)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest · 3 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 2 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 13 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · 3 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited) · 2 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Various Characters (uncredited) · 1 eps
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self · 2 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · 1 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · 2 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner · 1 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · 2 eps
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
Muppets Tonight
Self · 2 eps
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · 1 eps
CMA Awards
Self · 1 eps
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
Self (segment "New Way to Walk")
Biography: Comedy Icons
Self · 1 eps
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 eps
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Self - Actor
Overnight
Self
The Sweatbox
Self
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Self
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
Self
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Self
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
Milius
Self
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Self - Presenter
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'
Self
Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective
Self
Discovering Bedrock
Self
The Artist: The Making of an American Romance
Self
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
Self - Host
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
Self (archive footage)
All-Stars
Himself
Speed Racer: Car Fu
Self
Evolution Within Extinction
Self
Live from New York!
Self
A Friend in New Orleans
Himself
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
Self
Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood
Himself
The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool
Self