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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 
Monsters, Inc.
+3
as Sullivan (voice) 
The Conners
+14
as Dan Conner 
The Righteous Gemstones
+3
as Eli Gemstone 
Kong: Skull Island
+8
as Bill Randa 
The Emperor's New School
as Pacha (voice) 
Monsters University
+4
as Sullivan (voice) 
The Big Lebowski
+3
as Walter Sobchak 
The Emperor's New Groove
+3
as Pacha (voice) 
The Princess and the Frog
+3
as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice) 
Transformers: Age of Extinction
+12
as Hound (voice) 
Bee Movie
+2
as Layton T. Montgomery (voice) 
The Hangover Part III
+6
as Marshall 
Evan Almighty
+2
as Congressman Long 
Atomic Blonde
+8
as Emmett Kurzfeld 
Speed Racer
+2
as Pops 
Smurfs
+14
as Papa Smurf (voice) 
Alpha House
+1
as Senator Gil John Biggs 
The Jungle Book 2
as Baloo (voice) 
Patriots Day
+6
as Commisioner Ed Davis 
10 Cloverfield Lane
+10
as Howard 
Inside Llewyn Davis
+4
as Roland Turner 
Kronk's New Groove
+3
as Pacha (voice) 
Father of the Pride
as Larry (voice) 
The Artist
+10
as Al Zimmer 
The Flintstones
+4
as Fred Flintstone 
Flight
+7
as Harling Mays 
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
+4
as Big Dan Teague 
Argo
+8
as John Chambers 
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
+6
as Igon Siruss (voice) 
Roseanne
+1
as Dan Conner 
Fallen
+6
as Jonesy 
Coyote Ugly
+3
as Bill 
ParaNorman
+8
as Mr. Prenderghast (voice) 
The Gambler
+8
as Frank 
Raising Arizona
+2
as Gale 
Sea of Love
+4
as Sherman 
Black Earth Rising
as Michael Ennis 
Confessions of a Shopaholic
+3
as Graham Bloomwood 
Captive State
+2
as William Mulligan 
Ratchet & Clank
+2
as Grimroth (voice) 
The Freak Brothers
+4
as Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice) 
The Monuments Men
+7
as Sgt. Walter Garfield 
Mike's New Car
+2
as Sulley (voice) 
Bringing Out the Dead
+5
as Larry Verber 
Death Sentence
+3
as Bones Darley 
Love the Coopers
+3
as Sam Cooper 
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
+5
as Stan the Doorman 
Revenge of the Nerds
as Coach Harris 
Trouble with the Curve
+4
as Pete Klein 
Party Central
as Sullivan (voice) 
The Borrowers
+4
as Ocious P. Potter 
Barton Fink
+3
as Charlie Meadows 
In the Electric Mist
+4
as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni 
Once Upon a Time in Venice
+6
as Dave Phillips 
Red State
+10
as Joseph Keenan 
Blues Brothers 2000
+2
as Mighty Mack McTeer 
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
+2
as Oklahoma Cop 
Always
+3
as Al Yackey 
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
+2
as Rex (voice) 
Maria's Lovers
+3
as Frank 
Trumbo
+9
as Frank King 
You Don't Know Jack
+4
as Neal Nicol 
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
+7
as Narrator (voice) 
The Big Easy
+9
as Andre DeSoto 
Arachnophobia
+9
as Delbert McClintock 
C.H.U.D.
+12
as Cop in Diner 
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
+2
as Hal Houston (voice) 
The Jack Bull
+2
as Judge Tolliver 
Punchline
+3
as John Krytsick 
Pope Joan
as Pope Sergius II. 
The Babe
+2
as Babe Ruth 
King Ralph
+2
as Ralph 
Matinee
+5
as Lawrence Woolsey 
What Planet Are You From?
+6
as Roland Jones 
Clifford's Really Big Movie
+3
as George Wolfsbottom (voice) 
Everybody's All-American
+2
as Lawrence 
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
+7
as Self - Actor 
Eddie Macon's Run
+2
as Mr. Hebert 
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Santa Claus 
Burglar
+6
as Detective Nyswander 
Sweet Dreams
as Otis 
Storytelling
+2
as Marty Livingston 
Frosty Returns
as Frosty the Snowman (voice) 
On the Edge
as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday") 
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
+2
as Santa Claus 
The Survivors
+6
as Commando 
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
+12
as Steve Mills 
Beyond the Sea
+11
as Steve Blauner 
Dirty Deeds
as Tony 
Bunyan and Babe
+19
as Paul Bunyan (voice) 
True Stories
+3
as Louis Fyne 
My First Mister
as Benjamin 
Easy Does It
+6
as "Catfish" Crawford (voice) 
Gigantic
+8
as Happy's Father 
Mother Night
+2
as Major Frank Wirtanen 
Masked and Anonymous
as Uncle Sweetheart 
Born Yesterday
+3
as Harry Brock 
Alabama Moon
+2
as Mr. Wellington 
Tales of the Rat Fink
+2
as Ed Roth (voice) 
The Book of Manning
as Narrator 
Overnight
+7
as Self 
The Wrong Guys
+3
as Duke Earle 
Freshman Orientation
as Rodney 
The Real Macaw
as Mac (voice) 
Milius
+5
as Self 
New Orleans: The First 300 Years
as Narrator 
The Runner
as Deepthroat 
All-Stars
+5
as Himself 
Drunkboat
+3
as Mr. Fletcher