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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 20, 1952
Place of Birth
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Also Known As
- 約翰·古德曼
- ジョン・グッドマン
- 존 굿맨
- جون غودمان
- Джон Гудман
- Джон Стівен Гудмен
- Джон Гудмен
- Karl Mundt
- John Stephen Goodman
- Jonathan Stephen "John" Goodman
- جان گودمن
John Goodman
18.8 Popularity
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Goodman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Judy
2026
0.0
Papa Smurf (voice)
Smurfs
2025
7.0
Self
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023
6.1
Narrator (voice)
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
2023
7.8
Bill Randa
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
2023
7.8
Bill Randa (archive footage)
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
2023
5.7
Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice)
The Freak Brothers
2021
7.2
Sulley (voice)
Monsters at Work
2021
3.9
"Catfish" Crawford (voice)
Easy Does It
2020
🎬
0.0
Birds of a Different Game: The '80s Cardinals
2020
Credits
Judy
2026
0.0
Smurfs
as Papa Smurf (voice)
2025
0.0
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2023
7.0
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
as Narrator (voice)
2023
6.1
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
as Bill Randa
2023
7.8
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
as Bill Randa (archive footage)
2023
7.8
The Freak Brothers
as Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice)
2021
5.7
Monsters at Work
as Sulley (voice)
2021
7.2
Easy Does It
as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)
2020
3.9
🎬
Birds of a Different Game: The '80s Cardinals
2020
0.0
The Righteous Gemstones
as Eli Gemstone
2019
7.4
Biography: Comedy Icons
as Himself
2019
0.0
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
2019
7.3
Captive State
as William Mulligan
2019
5.7
The Conners
as Dan Conner
2018
7.0
Black Earth Rising
as Michael Ennis
2018
6.7
Atomic Blonde
as Emmett Kurzfeld
2017
6.4
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as Igon Siruss (voice)
2017
6.6
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Hound (voice)
2017
6.1
Once Upon a Time in Venice
as Dave Phillips
2017
5.2
Kong: Skull Island
as Bill Randa
2017
6.5
Bunyan and Babe
as Paul Bunyan (voice)
2017
5.8
New Orleans: The First 300 Years
as Narrator
2017
0.0
Patriots Day
as Commisioner Ed Davis
2016
7.1
Ratchet & Clank
as Grimroth (voice)
2016
5.8
10 Cloverfield Lane
as Howard
2016
7.0
Love the Coopers
as Sam Cooper
2015
6.0
Trumbo
as Frank King
2015
7.2
Live from New York!
as Self
2015
5.9
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
as Houston (voice)
2015
6.9
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
as Self - Actor
2015
6.6
The Gambler
as Frank
2014
6.0
All-Stars
as Himself
2014
6.6
Evolution Within Extinction
as Self
2014
7.7
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Hound (voice)
2014
5.9
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
as Self
2014
6.7
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
Party Central
as Sullivan (voice)
2014
6.8
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2014
4.0
The Monuments Men
as Sgt. Walter Garfield
2014
6.1
Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective
as Self
2013
0.0
Inside Llewyn Davis
as Roland Turner
2013
7.2
The Book of Manning
as Narrator
2013
8.1
Monsters University
as Sullivan (voice)
2013
7.0
The Internship
as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
2013
6.2
The Hangover Part III
as Marshall
2013
6.2
Alpha House
as Senator Gil John Biggs
2013
7.1
Milius
as Self
2013
7.1
Dancing on the Edge
as Masterson
2013
6.5
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
as Santa Claus
2012
7.0
Flight
as Harling Mays
2012
6.8
Argo
as John Chambers
2012
7.3
Trouble with the Curve
as Pete Klein
2012
7.0
The Campaign
as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
2012
5.8
ParaNorman
as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
2012
7.0
Drunkboat
as Mr. Fletcher
2012
4.6
The Artist: The Making of an American Romance
as Self
2012
6.0
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
7.5
All Star Bowling Trick Shots
2012
0.0
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Stan the Doorman
2011
7.0
The Artist
as Al Zimmer
2011
7.5
Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night
as Narrator
2011
8.0
Red State
as Joseph Keenan
2011
6.0
You Don't Know Jack
as Neal Nicol
2010
7.0
Best Food Ever
as Narrator
2010
7.0
Treme
2010
7.6
Treme
as Creighton Bernette
2010
7.6
The Princess and the Frog
as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
2009
7.2
Beyond All Boundaries
as Capt. Edwin Simmons
2009
6.2
Alabama Moon
as Mr. Wellington
2009
6.4
Pope Joan
as Pope Sergius II.
2009
6.8
Community
as Vice Dean Laybourne
2009
8.0
In the Electric Mist
as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
2009
6.1
Confessions of a Shopaholic
as Graham Bloomwood
2009
6.5
Girls Gone Gangsta
as Mortimer J Hamm
2009
2.8
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans
as Himself - Narrator
2008
7.7
Gigantic
as Happy's Father
2008
5.7
Speed Racer
as Pops Racer
2008
6.3
Bee Movie
as Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
2007
6.0
Death Sentence
as Bones Darley
2007
6.8
The Pixar Story
as James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
2007
7.6
Damages
as Howard Erickson
2007
7.5
Evan Almighty
as Congressman Long
2007
5.6
Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
2007
7.9
🎬
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
as (archive footage)
2007
3.0
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Santa Claus
2006
5.6
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
as Judge Robert Bebe
2006
7.3
Cars
as Sullivan Truck (voice)
2006
7.0
The Emperor's New School
as Pacha (voice)
2006
7.3
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
as Steve Mills
2006
5.8
Tales of the Rat Fink
as Ed Roth (voice)
2006
5.3
Kronk's New Groove
as Pacha (voice)
2005
6.4
A Concert for Hurricane Relief
as Self - Presenter
2005
0.0
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
6.8
Beyond the Sea
as Steve Blauner
2004
6.2
Center of the Universe
as John Barnett
2004
7.0
Father of the Pride
as Larry (voice)
2004
4.8
Clifford's Really Big Movie
as George Wolfsbottom (voice)
2004
5.9
Freshman Orientation
as Rodney
2004
5.4
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.7
Masked and Anonymous
as Uncle Sweetheart
2003
5.0
Overnight
as Self
2003
6.4
The Jungle Book 2
as Baloo (voice)
2003
5.9
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
5.5
The Sweatbox
as Himself
2002
6.9
Dirty Deeds
as Tony
2002
5.6
Mike's New Car
as Sulley (voice)
2002
6.9
Storytelling
as Marty Livingston
2001
6.5
Monsters, Inc.
as Sullivan (voice)
2001
7.8
My First Mister
as Benjamin
2001
6.6
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
as Narrator
2001
6.6
On the Edge
as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
2001
5.6
One Night at McCool's
as Detective Dehling
2001
5.9
The Emperor's New Groove
as Pacha (voice)
2000
7.6
Normal, Ohio
as William "Butch" Gamble
2000
5.4
Ed
as Big Rudy
2000
7.7
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
as Big Dan Teague
2000
7.3
Coyote Ugly
as Bill
2000
6.3
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
as Oklahoma Cop
2000
4.2
Pigs Next Door
as Phil (voice)
2000
8.0
What Planet Are You From?
as Roland Jones
2000
5.5
Bringing Out the Dead
as Larry Verber
1999
6.6
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
as Self
1999
6.8
Now and Again
1999
6.9
Now and Again
as Michael Wiseman
1999
6.9
The West Wing
as Glenallen Walken
1999
8.3
The Runner
as Deepthroat
1999
5.1
SpongeBob SquarePants
as Santa Claus (voice)
1999
7.7
The Jack Bull
as Judge Tolliver
1999
6.3
Futurama
as Robot Santa Claus (voice)
1999
8.4
Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood
as Himself
1999
6.4
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'
as Self
1998
7.3
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
as Santa Claus (voice)
1998
6.0
The Real Macaw
as Mac (voice)
1998
6.6
Dirty Work
as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
1998
6.1
The Big Lebowski
as Walter Sobchak
1998
7.8
Blues Brothers 2000
as Mighty Mack McTeer
1998
5.3
Fallen
as Jonesy
1998
6.8
The Borrowers
as Ocious P. Potter
1997
6.0
Soul Man
as Capt. Stan Hamel
1997
6.5
King of the Hill
as Tommy (voice)
1997
7.3
Mother Night
as Major Frank Wirtanen
1996
6.7
🎬
Saturday Night Special
1996
5.0
Muppets Tonight
as Self
1996
7.5
Pie in the Sky
as Alan Davenport
1996
6.6
🎬
Ruby Wax Meets
1996
6.0
A Streetcar Named Desire
as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
1995
7.0
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self
1995
8.1
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
as Huey P. Long, Jr.
1995
7.5
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Downwardly Mobile
1994
0.0
The Flintstones
as Fred Flintstone
1994
5.3
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Tough Guy Helpline Operator
1994
7.0
The Hudsucker Proxy
as Newsreel Announcer (voice)
1994
7.1
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
as Rex (voice)
1993
6.1
Grace Under Fire
as Police Officer
1993
5.7
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
Born Yesterday
as Harry Brock
1993
5.3
Matinee
as Lawrence Woolsey
1993
6.6
The Jackie Thomas Show
as Dan Conner
1992
0.0
Frosty Returns
as Frosty the Snowman (voice)
1992
5.6
The Babe
as Babe Ruth
1992
5.6
Barton Fink
as Charlie Meadows
1991
7.5
King Ralph
as Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones
1991
5.4
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
as Self - Host
1990
6.6
Arachnophobia
as Delbert McClintock
1990
6.4
Stella
as Ed Munn
1990
5.7
Grand
as Red
1990
5.5
Always
as Al Yackey
1989
6.3
The Simpsons
as Meathook (voice)
1989
8.0
Sea of Love
as Sherman
1989
6.6
Everybody's All-American
as Lawrence
1988
5.4
Roseanne
as Dan Conner
1988
6.8
Punchline
as John Krytsick
1988
5.5
The Wrong Guys
as Duke Earle
1988
5.6
Murder Ordained
as Hugh Rayburn
1987
5.4
Murder Ordained
as Hugh Rayburn
1987
5.0
Burglar
as Detective Nyswander
1987
5.2
Raising Arizona
as Gale
1987
7.1
🎬
Real Life
as Louis Fyne
1986
0.0
The Big Easy
as Andre DeSoto
1986
6.2
True Stories
as Louis Fyne
1986
6.7
Sweet Dreams
as Otis
1985
6.5
The Equalizer
as Harold Winter
1985
7.2
Moonlighting
as Donald Chase
1985
7.5
Maria's Lovers
as Frank
1984
6.1
C.H.U.D.
as Cop in Diner
1984
5.6
Revenge of the Nerds
as Coach Harris
1984
6.5
Heart of Steel
as Raymond Bohupinsky
1983
6.0
Chiefs
as Newt 'Tub' Murray
1983
7.9
The Survivors
as Commando
1983
5.7
Eddie Macon's Run
as Mr. Hebert
1983
5.7
🎬
The Face of Rage
as Fred
1983
1.0
The Robber Bridegroom
as Townsperson
1980
0.0
🎬
The Mystery of the Morro Castle
as Telegraph Operator
1980
0.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
6.9
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
6.9
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.4
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
🎬
Chili Finger
N/A
0.0