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