John Goodman
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1952-06-20 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
John Goodman
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).
Known For
Acting
(2026)
(2025)
Smurfs
as Papa Smurf (voice)
(2025)
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
as Self (archive footage)
(2023)
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
as Narrator (voice)
(2020)
(2020)
Easy Does It
as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)
(2019)
Captive State
as William Mulligan
(2019)
(2018)
Real Life
as Louis Fyne
(2017)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as Igon Siruss (voice)
(2017)
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Hound (voice)
(2017)
Kong: Skull Island
as Bill Randa
(2017)
Atomic Blonde
as Emmett Kurzfeld
(2017)
Once Upon a Time in Venice
as Dave Phillips
(2017)
Bunyan and Babe
as Paul Bunyan (voice)
(2017)
New Orleans: The First 300 Years
as Narrator
(2016)
10 Cloverfield Lane
as Howard
(2016)
Patriots Day
as Commisioner Ed Davis
(2016)
Ratchet & Clank
as Grimroth (voice)
(2015)
Trumbo
as Frank King
(2015)
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
as Hal Houston (voice)
(2015)
Love the Coopers
as Sam Cooper
(2015)
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
as Self - Actor
(2015)
Live from New York!
as Self
(2014)
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Hound (voice)
(2014)
The Gambler
as Frank
(2014)
The Monuments Men
as Sgt. Walter Garfield
(2014)
Evolution Within Extinction
as Self
(2014)
Party Central
as Sullivan (voice)
(2014)
All-Stars
as Himself
(2014)
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
as Self
(2013)
Monsters University
as Sullivan (voice)
(2013)
The Hangover Part III
as Marshall
(2013)
(2013)
Inside Llewyn Davis
as Roland Turner
(2013)
Milius
as Self
(2013)
The Book of Manning
as Narrator
(2013)
The Internship
as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
(2012)
ParaNorman
as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
(2012)
Flight
as Harling Mays
(2012)
Trouble with the Curve
as Pete Klein
(2012)
The Campaign
as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
(2012)
Argo
as John Chambers
(2012)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
(2012)
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
as Santa Claus
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
Drunkboat
as Mr. Fletcher
(2011)
The Artist
as Al Zimmer
(2011)
Red State
as Joseph Keenan
(2011)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Stan the Doorman
(2011)
Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night
as Narrator
(2010)
You Don't Know Jack
as Neal Nicol
(2009)
The Princess and the Frog
as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
(2009)
Alabama Moon
as Mr. Wellington
(2009)
Confessions of a Shopaholic
as Graham Bloomwood
(2009)
Pope Joan
as Pope Sergius II.
(2009)
In the Electric Mist
as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
(2009)
Beyond All Boundaries
as Capt. Edwin Simmons
(2009)
Girls Gone Gangsta
as Mortimer J Hamm
(2008)
Speed Racer
as Pops Racer
(2008)
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans
as Himself - Narrator
(2008)
Gigantic
as Happy's Father
(2007)
Bee Movie
as Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
(2007)
Evan Almighty
as Congressman Long
(2007)
Death Sentence
as Bones Darley
(2007)
The Pixar Story
as James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
(2007)
(2006)
Cars
as Sullivan Truck (voice)
(2006)
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Santa Claus
(2006)
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
as Steve Mills
(2006)
Tales of the Rat Fink
as Ed Roth (voice)
(2005)
Kronk's New Groove
as Pacha (voice)
(2005)
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
as Self - Presenter
(2004)
Freshman Orientation
as Rodney
(2004)
Beyond the Sea
as Steve Blauner
(2004)
Clifford's Really Big Movie
as George Wolfsbottom (voice)
(2003)
The Jungle Book 2
as Baloo (voice)
(2003)
Masked and Anonymous
as Uncle Sweetheart
(2003)
Overnight
as Self
(2002)
Mike's New Car
as Sulley (voice)
(2002)
The Sweatbox
as Self
(2002)
Dirty Deeds
as Tony
(2001)
Monsters, Inc.
as Sullivan (voice)
(2001)
On the Edge
as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
(2001)
My First Mister
as Benjamin
(2001)
Storytelling
as Marty Livingston
(2001)
One Night at McCool's
as Detective Dehling
(2001)
(2001)
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
as Narrator
(2000)
The Emperor's New Groove
as Pacha (voice)
(2000)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
as Big Dan Teague
(2000)
Coyote Ugly
as Bill
(2000)
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
as Oklahoma Cop
(2000)
What Planet Are You From?
as Roland Jones
(1999)
Bringing Out the Dead
as Larry Verber
(1999)
The Jack Bull
as Judge Tolliver
(1999)
The Runner
as Deepthroat
(1999)
(1999)
(1998)
The Big Lebowski
as Walter Sobchak
(1998)
Blues Brothers 2000
as Mighty Mack McTeer
(1998)
Fallen
as Jonesy
(1998)
Dirty Work
as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
(1998)
(1998)
The Real Macaw
as Mac (voice)
(1998)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
as Santa Claus (voice)
(1997)
The Borrowers
as Ocious P. Potter
(1996)
Pie in the Sky
as Alan Davenport
(1996)
Mother Night
as Major Frank Wirtanen
(1995)
(1995)
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
as Huey P. Long, Jr.
(1995)
A Streetcar Named Desire
as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
(1994)
The Flintstones
as Fred Flintstone
(1994)
The Hudsucker Proxy
as Newsreel Announcer (voice)
(1994)
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Tough Guy Helpline Operator
(1993)
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
as Rex (voice)
(1993)
Matinee
as Lawrence Woolsey
(1993)
Born Yesterday
as Harry Brock
(1992)
Frosty Returns
as Frosty the Snowman (voice)
(1992)
The Babe
as Babe Ruth
(1991)
Barton Fink
as Charlie Meadows
(1991)
King Ralph
as Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones
(1990)
Stella
as Ed Munn
(1990)
Arachnophobia
as Delbert McClintock
(1990)
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
as Self - Host
(1989)
Always
as Al Yackey
(1989)
Sea of Love
as Sherman
(1988)
The Wrong Guys
as Duke Earle
(1988)
Punchline
as John Krytsick
(1988)
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
as Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")
(1988)
Everybody's All-American
as Lawrence
(1987)
Raising Arizona
as Gale
(1987)
Murder Ordained
as Hugh Rayburn
(1987)
Burglar
as Detective Nyswander
(1986)
The Big Easy
as Andre DeSoto
(1986)
True Stories
as Louis Fyne
(1985)
Sweet Dreams
as Otis
(1984)
Revenge of the Nerds
as Coach Harris
(1984)
C.H.U.D.
as Cop in Diner
(1984)
Maria's Lovers
as Frank
(1983)
The Survivors
as Commando
(1983)
The Face of Rage
as Fred
(1983)
Heart of Steel
as Raymond Bohupinsky
(1983)
Eddie Macon's Run
as Mr. Hebert
(1980)
The Robber Bridegroom
as Townsperson
(1980)
The Mystery of the Morro Castle
as Telegraph Operator
Crew
Chili Finger
Executive Producer