John Goodman
Acting
- Born:
- 1952-06-20
- Place of birth:
- Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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). 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.
Known For
Filmography
Skeletons
Digger
Chili Finger
Monsters Funday Football
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
Smurfs
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
The Freak Brothers
Monsters at Work
Easy Does It
The Righteous Gemstones
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
Biography: Comedy Icons
Captive State
Real Life
The Conners
Black Earth Rising
Atomic Blonde
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Transformers: The Last Knight
Once Upon a Time in Venice
Kong: Skull Island
Bunyan and Babe
New Orleans: The First 300 Years
Patriots Day
Ratchet & Clank
10 Cloverfield Lane
Love the Coopers
Trumbo
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Live from New York!
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
The Gambler
All-Stars
Evolution Within Extinction
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Party Central
Off Camera with Sam Jones
The Monuments Men
Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Book of Manning
Monsters University
The Internship
The Hangover Part III
Alpha House
Milius
Dancing on the Edge
All Star Bowling Trick Shots
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
Argo
Trouble with the Curve
The Campaign
ParaNorman
Drunkboat
The Artist: The Making of an American Romance
Flight
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Artist
Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night
Red State
You Don't Know Jack
Best Food Ever
Treme
The Princess and the Frog
Beyond All Boundaries
Alabama Moon
Pope Joan
Community
In the Electric Mist
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Girls Gone Gangsta
Speed Racer: Car Fu
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans
Gigantic
Speed Racer
Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family
Bee Movie
Death Sentence
The Pixar Story
Damages
Evan Almighty
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Cars
Tales of the Rat Fink
The Emperor's New School
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Kronk's New Groove
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Beyond the Sea
Center of the Universe
Father of the Pride
Clifford's Really Big Movie
Freshman Orientation
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Masked and Anonymous
Overnight
The Jungle Book 2
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Sweatbox
Dirty Deeds
Mike's New Car
Storytelling
Monsters, Inc.
My First Mister
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
On the Edge
One Night at McCool's
The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool
The Emperor's New Groove
Normal, Ohio
Ed
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Coyote Ugly
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
Pigs Next Door
What Planet Are You From?
Bringing Out the Dead
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Now and Again
The West Wing
The Runner
SpongeBob SquarePants
The Jack Bull
Futurama
Discovering Bedrock
Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
The Real Macaw
Dirty Work
The Big Lebowski
Blues Brothers 2000
Fallen
The Borrowers
Soul Man
King of the Hill
Mother Night
Saturday Night Special
Muppets Tonight
Pie in the Sky
Ruby Wax Meets
A Streetcar Named Desire
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
Inside the Actors Studio
Downwardly Mobile
The Flintstones
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
The Hudsucker Proxy
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
Grace Under Fire
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Born Yesterday
Matinee
Frosty Returns
The Jackie Thomas Show
The Babe
A Friend in New Orleans
The Future Is Now
Barton Fink
King Ralph
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
American Chronicles
Arachnophobia
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
Stella
Grand
Always
The Simpsons
Sea of Love
Everybody's All-American
Roseanne
Punchline
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Wrong Guys
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
Murder Ordained
Murder Ordained
Burglar
Raising Arizona
The Big Easy
True Stories
Sweet Dreams
The Equalizer
Moonlighting
C.H.U.D.
Revenge of the Nerds
Maria's Lovers
Heart of Steel
The Survivors
Eddie Macon's Run
The Face of Rage
The Robber Bridegroom
The Mystery of the Morro Castle
Saturday Night Live
CMA Awards
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards