John Goodman
Known for Acting · 210 credits
- Born
- 1952-06-20 (age 74)
- Place of birth
- Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
- Also known as
- Karl Mundt · John Stephen Goodman · Jonathan Stephen 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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The Simpsons
1989
as Meathook (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self - Cameo (uncredited) / Self (uncredited) / Linda Tripp (uncredited) / Nathan Barnett (uncredited) / The Ghost of SNL Hosts Presents (uncredited) / Linda Tripp (voice) (uncredited) / Self - Various Characters (uncredited)
Community
2009
as Vice Dean Laybourne
TV Shows (54)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The Simpsons
1989
as Meathook (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self - Cameo (uncredited) / Self (uncredited) / Linda Tripp (uncredited) / Nathan Barnett (uncredited) / The Ghost of SNL Hosts Presents (uncredited) / Linda Tripp (voice) (uncredited) / Self - Various Characters (uncredited)
Community
2009
as Vice Dean Laybourne
King of the Hill
1997
as Tommy (voice)
The West Wing
1999
as Glenallen Walken
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Winner
Futurama
1999
as Robot Santa Claus (voice)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Damages
2007
as Howard Erickson
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
2023
as Bill Randa / Bill Randa (archive footage)
The Equalizer
1985
as Harold Winter
The Righteous Gemstones
2019
as Eli Gemstone
Moonlighting
1985
as Donald Chase
SpongeBob SquarePants
1999
as Santa Claus (voice)
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
as Self
The Conners
2018
as Dan Conner
Grace Under Fire
1993
as Police Officer
Monsters at Work
2021
as Sulley (voice)
Ed
2000
as Big Rudy
The Emperor's New School
2006
as Pacha (voice)
Treme
2010
as Creighton Bernette
Dancing on the Edge
2013
as Masterson
Muppets Tonight
1996
as Self
CMA Awards
1967
as Self
Alpha House
2013
as Senator Gil John Biggs
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023
as Self
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
as Judge Robert Bebe
Father of the Pride
2004
as Larry (voice)
Roseanne
1988
as Dan Conner
Black Earth Rising
2018
as Michael Ennis
Grand
1990
as Red
Now and Again
1999
as Michael Wiseman
American Chronicles
1990
as self
The Freak Brothers
2021
as Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice)
Pigs Next Door
2000
as Phil (voice)
Soul Man
1997
as Capt. Stan Hamel
Normal, Ohio
2000
as William "Butch" Gamble
The Jackie Thomas Show
1992
as Dan Conner
Ruby Wax Meets
1996
Center of the Universe
2004
as John Barnett
Biography: Comedy Icons
2019
as Self
Murder Ordained
1987
as Hugh Rayburn
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Saturday Night Special
1996
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Best Food Ever
2010
as Narrator
Downwardly Mobile
1994
Movies (156)
Digger
2026
as President Compson
Monsters, Inc.
2001
as Sullivan (voice)
Monsters University
2013
as Sullivan (voice)
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
as Hound (voice)
The Hangover Part III
2013
as Marshall
Cars
2006
as Sullivan Truck (voice)
The Princess and the Frog
2009
as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
The Emperor's New Groove
2000
as Pacha (voice)
Kong: Skull Island
2017
as Bill Randa
Smurfs
2025
as Papa Smurf (voice)
Argo
2012
as John Chambers
Flight
2012
as Harling Mays
The Big Lebowski
1998
as Walter Sobchak
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
as Hound (voice)
Bee Movie
2007
as Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017
as Igon Siruss (voice)
ParaNorman
2012
as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
10 Cloverfield Lane
2016
as Howard
Maria's Lovers
1984
as Frank
The Artist
2011
as Al Zimmer
Atomic Blonde
2017
as Emmett Kurzfeld
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
as Big Dan Teague
Coyote Ugly
2000
as Bill
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013
as Roland Turner
The Flintstones
1994
as Fred Flintstone
The Gambler
2014
as Frank
Captive State
2019
as William Mulligan
Speed Racer
2008
as Pops
Trouble with the Curve
2012
as Pete Klein
Evan Almighty
2007
as Congressman Long
The Monuments Men
2014
as Sgt. Walter Garfield
The Campaign
2012
as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
Chili Finger
2026
as Blake Jr.
Ratchet & Clank
2016
as Grimroth (voice)
Patriots Day
2016
as Commisioner Ed Davis
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011
as Stan the Doorman
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
1995
as Huey P. Long, Jr.
Fallen
1998
as Jonesy
Party Central
2014
as Sullivan (voice)
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009
as Graham Bloomwood
The Babe
1992
as Babe Ruth
Bunyan and Babe
2017
as Paul Bunyan (voice)
Bringing Out the Dead
1999
as Larry Verber
Raising Arizona
1987
as Gale
Barton Fink
1991
as Charlie Meadows
Kronk's New Groove
2005
as Pacha (voice)
Revenge of the Nerds
1984
as Coach Harris
Sea of Love
1989
as Sherman
Death Sentence
2007
as Bones Darley
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
as Self
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2014
as Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
The Jungle Book 2
2003
as Baloo (voice)
Love the Coopers
2015
as Sam Cooper
Trumbo
2015
as Frank King
Alabama Moon
2009
as Mr. Wellington
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994
as Newsreel Announcer (voice)
In the Electric Mist
2009
as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
Discovering Bedrock
1999
as Self
The Borrowers
1997
as Ocious P. Potter
Dirty Deeds
2002
as Tony
Skeletons
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
1998
as Santa Claus (voice)
One Night at McCool's
2001
as Detective Dehling
Easy Does It
2020
as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)
Arachnophobia
1990
as Delbert McClintock
The Robber Bridegroom
1980
as Townsperson
Blues Brothers 2000
1998
as Mighty Mack McTeer
Red State
2011
as Joseph Keenan
Burglar
1987
as Detective Nyswander
The Book of Manning
2013
as Narrator
Beyond All Boundaries
2009
as Capt. Edwin Simmons
Overnight
2003
as Self
A Streetcar Named Desire
1995
as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
Once Upon a Time in Venice
2017
as Dave Phillips
Heart of Steel
1983
as Raymond Bohupinsky
Always
1989
as Al Yackey
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
2019
as Self
Mike's New Car
2002
as Sulley (voice)
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
as Santa Claus
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
as Steve Mills
The Big Easy
1986
as Andre DeSoto
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
1993
as Rex (voice)
Matinee
1993
as Lawrence Woolsey
Everybody's All-American
1988
as Lawrence
The Pixar Story
2007
as James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
On the Edge
2001
as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
Milius
2013
as Self
You Don't Know Jack
2010
as Neal Nicol
C.H.U.D.
1984
as Cop in Diner
The Sweatbox
2002
as Self
Pie in the Sky
1996
as Alan Davenport
Masked and Anonymous
2003
as Uncle Sweetheart
Dirty Work
1998
as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
Speed Racer: Car Fu
2008
as Self
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
2000
as Oklahoma Cop
Beyond the Sea
2004
as Steve Blauner
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
1990
as Self
Girls Gone Gangsta
2009
as Mortimer J Hamm
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever
2025
as Doodle (voice)
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
2023
as Narrator (voice)
What Planet Are You From?
2000
as Roland Jones
King Ralph
1991
as Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones
Pope Joan
2009
as Pope Sergius II.
The Jack Bull
1999
as Judge Tolliver
A Friend in New Orleans
1992
as Himself
Monsters Funday Football
2025
as Sulley (Voice)
Tales of the Rat Fink
2006
as Ed Roth (voice)
Storytelling
2001
as Marty Livingston
Clifford's Really Big Movie
2004
as George Wolfsbottom (voice)
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
2015
as Self - Actor
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Self
The Real Macaw
1998
as Mac (voice)
All Star Bowling Trick Shots
2012
Eddie Macon's Run
1983
as Mr. Hebert
The Runner
1999
as Deepthroat
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
1993
as Self (segment "New Way to Walk")
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
2001
as Narrator
Live from New York!
2015
as Self
Punchline
1988
as John Krytsick
About John 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 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… With 210 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, John Goodman has appeared in 156 films and 54 TV shows.
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Most Popular John Goodman Movies
- Digger (2026) — as President Compson
- Monsters, Inc. (2001) — as Sullivan (voice)
- Monsters University (2013) — as Sullivan (voice)
- Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) — as Hound (voice)
- The Hangover Part III (2013) — as Marshall
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