John Goodman
132 movies · 36 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 20, 1952 (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 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).
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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).
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Acting (168)
- Upcoming
- 2026 Digger
as President Compson
- 2026 Chili Finger
as Blake Jr.
- 2025 Monsters Funday Football
as Sulley (Voice)
- 2025 A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever
as Doodle (voice)
- 2025 Smurfs
as Papa Smurf (voice)
- 2023 Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
as Narrator (voice)
- 2023
- 2021
- 2021
- 2020 Easy Does It
as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)
- 2019
- 2019 Captive State
as William Mulligan
- 2018 Real Life
as Louis Fyne
- 2018
- 2018
- 2017 Atomic Blonde
as Emmett Kurzfeld
- 2017 Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as Igon Siruss (voice)
- 2017 Transformers: The Last Knight
as Hound (voice)
- 2017 Once Upon a Time in Venice
as Dave Phillips
- 2017 Kong: Skull Island
as Bill Randa
- 2017 Bunyan and Babe
as Paul Bunyan (voice)
- 2017 New Orleans: The First 300 Years
as Narrator
- 2016 Patriots Day
as Commisioner Ed Davis
- 2016 Ratchet & Clank
as Grimroth (voice)
- 2016 10 Cloverfield Lane
as Howard
- 2015 Love the Coopers
as Sam Cooper
- 2015 Trumbo
as Frank King
- 2015 Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
as Hal Houston (voice)
- 2014 The Gambler
as Frank
- 2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Hound (voice)
- 2014 Party Central
as Sullivan (voice)
- 2014 The Monuments Men
as Sgt. Walter Garfield
- 2013 Inside Llewyn Davis
as Roland Turner
- 2013 The Book of Manning
as Narrator
- 2013 Monsters University
as Sullivan (voice)
- 2013 The Internship
as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
- 2013 The Hangover Part III
as Marshall
- 2013
- 2013
- 2012
- 2012 It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
as Santa Claus
- 2012 Argo
as John Chambers
- 2012 Trouble with the Curve
as Pete Klein
- 2012 The Campaign
as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
- 2012 ParaNorman
as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
- 2012 Drunkboat
as Mr. Fletcher
- 2012 Flight
as Harling Mays
- 2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
- 2011 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Stan the Doorman
- 2011 The Artist
as Al Zimmer
- 2011 Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night
as Narrator
- 2011 Red State
as Joseph Keenan
- 2010 You Don't Know Jack
as Neal Nicol
- 2010
- 2010
- 2009 The Princess and the Frog
as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
- 2009 Beyond All Boundaries
as Capt. Edwin Simmons
- 2009 Alabama Moon
as Mr. Wellington
- 2009 Pope Joan
as Pope Sergius II.
- 2009
- 2009 In the Electric Mist
as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
- 2009 Confessions of a Shopaholic
as Graham Bloomwood
- 2009 Girls Gone Gangsta
as Mortimer J Hamm
- 2008 Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans
as Narrator (voice)
- 2008 Gigantic
as Happy's Father
- 2008 Speed Racer
as Pops
- 2008
- 2007 Bee Movie
as Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
- 2007 Death Sentence
as Bones Darley
- 2007 The Pixar Story
as James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
- 2007
- 2007 Evan Almighty
as Congressman Long
- 2006 The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Santa Claus
- 2006
- 2006 Cars
as Sullivan Truck (voice)
- 2006 Tales of the Rat Fink
as Ed Roth (voice)
- 2006
- 2006 Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
as Steve Mills
- 2005 Kronk's New Groove
as Pacha (voice)
- 2004 Beyond the Sea
as Steve Blauner
- 2004
- 2004
- 2004 Clifford's Really Big Movie
as George Wolfsbottom (voice)
- 2004 Freshman Orientation
as Rodney
- 2003 Masked and Anonymous
as Uncle Sweetheart
- 2003 The Jungle Book 2
as Baloo (voice)
- 2002 Dirty Deeds
as Tony
- 2002 Mike's New Car
as Sulley (voice)
- 2001 Storytelling
as Marty Livingston
- 2001 Monsters, Inc.
as Sullivan (voice)
- 2001 My First Mister
as Benjamin
- 2001 When Dinosaurs Roamed America
as Narrator
- 2001 On the Edge
as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
- 2001 One Night at McCool's
as Detective Dehling
- 2000 The Emperor's New Groove
as Pacha (voice)
- 2000
- 2000
- 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
- 2000 What Planet Are You From?
as Roland Jones
- 1999 Bringing Out the Dead
as Larry Verber
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999 The Runner
as Deepthroat
- 1999
- 1999 The Jack Bull
as Judge Tolliver
- 1999
- 1998 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
as Santa Claus (voice)
- 1998 The Real Macaw
as Mac (voice)
- 1998 Dirty Work
as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
- 1998 The Big Lebowski
as Walter Sobchak
- 1998 Blues Brothers 2000
as Mighty Mack McTeer
- 1998 Fallen
as Jonesy
- 1997 The Borrowers
as Ocious P. Potter
- 1997
- 1997
- 1996 Mother Night
as Major Frank Wirtanen
- 1996
- 1996 Pie in the Sky
as Alan Davenport
- 1996
- 1995 A Streetcar Named Desire
as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
- 1995 Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
as Huey P. Long, Jr.
- 1994
- 1994 The Flintstones
as Fred Flintstone
- 1994 Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Tough Guy Helpline Operator
- 1994 The Hudsucker Proxy
as Newsreel Announcer (voice)
- 1993 We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
as Rex (voice)
- 1993
- 1993 Born Yesterday
as Harry Brock
- 1993 Matinee
as Lawrence Woolsey
- 1992 Frosty Returns
as Frosty the Snowman (voice)
- 1992
- 1992 The Babe
as Babe Ruth
- 1992 The Future Is Now
as Businessman
- 1991 Barton Fink
as Charlie Meadows
- 1991 King Ralph
as Ralph
- 1990 Arachnophobia
as Delbert McClintock
- 1990 Stella
as Ed Munn
- 1990
- 1989 Always
as Al Yackey
- 1989
- 1989 Sea of Love
as Sherman
- 1988 Everybody's All-American
as Lawrence
- 1988
- 1988 Punchline
as John Krytsick
- 1988 The Wrong Guys
as Duke Earle
- 1988 Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
as Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")
- 1987 Murder Ordained
as Hugh Rayburn
- 1987
- 1987 Burglar
as Detective Nyswander
- 1987 Raising Arizona
as Gale
- 1986 The Big Easy
as Andre DeSoto
- 1986 True Stories
as Louis Fyne
- 1985 Sweet Dreams
as Otis
- 1985
- 1985
- 1984 C.H.U.D.
as Cop in Diner
- 1984 Revenge of the Nerds
as Coach Harris
- 1984 Maria's Lovers
as Frank
- 1983 Heart of Steel
as Raymond Bohupinsky
- 1983 The Survivors
as Commando
- 1983 Eddie Macon's Run
as Mr. Hebert
- 1983 The Face of Rage
as Fred
- 1980 The Robber Bridegroom
as Townsperson
- 1980 The Mystery of the Morro Castle
as Telegraph Operator
Behind the camera (1)
- 2026 Chili Finger
Executive Producer
Talk shows and appearances (43)
- 2025
- 2023 Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
1 episode
- 2019
- 2019 Biography: Comedy Icons
1 episode
- 2015
- 2015
- 2014
- 2014
- 2014
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
3 episodes
- 2014 Off Camera with Sam Jones
1 episode
- 2013
- 2013
- 2012
- 2008
- 2007
- 2007 Boulevard of Broken Dreams
1 episode
- 2005
- 2005 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2 episodes
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2 episodes
- 2003
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live!
1 episode
- 2002
- 2001
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 1998
- 1996 Muppets Tonight
2 episodes
- 1995
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio
1 episode
- 1993
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2 episodes
- 1992
- 1990
- 1990 American Chronicles
1 episode
- 1990
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1 episode
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
25 episodes
- 1967 CMA Awards
1 episode
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
2 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
1 episode
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
1 episode