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John Goodman
Known for: ActingJohn 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.
Filmography 112
Digger
as President Compson 
The Conners
as Dan Conner 
Monsters, Inc.
as Sullivan (voice) 
Kong: Skull Island
as Bill Randa 
The Big Lebowski
as Walter Sobchak 
The Righteous Gemstones
as Eli Gemstone 
The Princess and the Frog
as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice) 
The Emperor's New School
as Pacha (voice) 
Monsters University
as Sullivan (voice) 
Atomic Blonde
as Emmett Kurzfeld 
Štrumpfovi film
as Papa Smurf (voice) 
The Monuments Men
as Sgt. Walter Garfield 
Trouble with the Curve
as Pete Klein 
Umjetnik
as Al Zimmer 
The Emperor's New Groove
as Pacha (voice) 
The Hangover Part III
as Marshall 
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as Igon Siruss (voice) 
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
as Big Dan Teague 
Fallen
as Jonesy 
Pčelin Film
as Layton T. Montgomery (voice) 
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Hound (voice) 
Patriots Day
as Commisioner Ed Davis 
Evan Almighty
as Congressman Long 
Speed Racer
as Pops 
The Jungle Book 2
as Baloo (voice) 
Bringing Out the Dead
as Larry Verber 
10 Cloverfield Lane
as Howard 
Father of the Pride
as Larry (voice) 
Alpha House
as Senator Gil John Biggs 
Inside Llewyn Davis
as Roland Turner 
Trumbo
as Frank King 
Flight
as Harling Mays 
The Flintstones
as Fred Flintstone 
Kronk's New Groove
as Pacha (voice) 
Captive State
as William Mulligan 
Argo
as John Chambers 
Roseanne
as Dan Conner 
ParaNorman
as Mr. Prenderghast (voice) 
Coyote Ugly
as Bill 
The Gambler
as Frank 
Raising Arizona
as Gale 
Sea of Love
as Sherman 
C.H.U.D.
as Cop in Diner 
Black Earth Rising
as Michael Ennis 
Confessions of a Shopaholic
as Graham Bloomwood 
Ratchet & Clank
as Grimroth (voice) 
Matinee
as Lawrence Woolsey 
The Freak Brothers
as Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice) 
Mike's New Car
as Sulley (voice) 
Storytelling
as Marty Livingston 
Death Sentence
as Bones Darley 
Love the Coopers
as Sam Cooper 
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Stan the Doorman 
Party Central
as Sullivan (voice) 
Red State
as Joseph Keenan 
Punchline
as John Krytsick 
Revenge of the Nerds
as Coach Harris 
Blues Brothers 2000
as Mighty Mack McTeer 
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
as Narrator (voice) 
The Big Easy
as Andre DeSoto 
The Borrowers
as Ocious P. Potter 
Barton Fink
as Charlie Meadows 
In the Electric Mist
as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni 
Once Upon a Time in Venice
as Dave Phillips 
What Planet Are You From?
as Roland Jones 
Always
as Al Yackey 
My First Mister
as Benjamin 
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
as Rex (voice) 
Clifford's Really Big Movie
as George Wolfsbottom (voice) 
Maria's Lovers
as Frank 
The Babe
as Babe Ruth 
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
as Oklahoma Cop 
You Don't Know Jack
as Neal Nicol 
The Jack Bull
as Judge Tolliver 
Arachnophobia
as Delbert McClintock 
True Stories
as Louis Fyne 
Pope Joan
as Pope Sergius II. 
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Santa Claus 
King Ralph
as Ralph 
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
as Hal Houston (voice) 
Everybody's All-American
as Lawrence 
Gigantic
as Happy's Father 
Eddie Macon's Run
as Mr. Hebert 
Burglar
as Detective Nyswander 
Sweet Dreams
as Otis 
Frosty Returns
as Frosty the Snowman (voice) 
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
as Self - Actor 
On the Edge
as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday") 
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
as Santa Claus 
Easy Does It
as "Catfish" Crawford (voice) 
The Survivors
as Commando 
Beyond the Sea
as Steve Blauner 
Dirty Deeds
as Tony 
Overnight
as Self 
Bunyan and Babe
as Paul Bunyan (voice) 
Mother Night
as Major Frank Wirtanen 
Masked and Anonymous
as Uncle Sweetheart 
Born Yesterday
as Harry Brock 
Drunkboat
as Mr. Fletcher 
Milius
as Self 
Alabama Moon
as Mr. Wellington 
Tales of the Rat Fink
as Ed Roth (voice) 
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
as Steve Mills 
The Book of Manning
as Narrator 
The Wrong Guys
as Duke Earle 
The Real Macaw
as Mac (voice) 
Freshman Orientation
as Rodney 
New Orleans: The First 300 Years
as Narrator 
The Runner
as Deepthroat 
All-Stars
as Himself