John Goodman
Acting
🎂 1952-06-20
John Stephen Goodman 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).
Cast credits(204)
Papa Smurf (voice)
2025
Meathook (voice)
1989
Tommy (voice)
1997
Self
1962
Robot Santa Claus (voice)
1999
Self
2014
Glenallen Walken
1999
Self - Host
1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
Vice Dean Laybourne
2009
Sullivan (voice)
2001
Harold Winter
1985
Self
2005
Donald Chase
1985
Eli Gemstone
2019
Bill Randa
2023
Bill Randa (archive footage)
2023
Self
2003
Dan Conner
2018
Sullivan (voice)
2013
Marshall
2013
Hound (voice)
2014
"Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
2009
Self
2003
Pacha (voice)
2000
Hound (voice)
2017
Sullivan Truck (voice)
2006
Police Officer
1993
Self - Guest
1993
Howard Erickson
2007
Bill Randa
2017
Self
2014
Walter Sobchak
1998
Sulley (voice)
2021
Self
1953
Igon Siruss (voice)
2017
Santa Claus (voice)
1999
Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
2007
Harling Mays
2012
Emmett Kurzfeld
2017
Fred Flintstone
1994
Jonesy
1998
Howard
2016
John Chambers
2012
Sulley (voice)
2009
Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
2012
Congressman Long
2007
Commisioner Ed Davis
2016
Bill
2000
Bones Darley
2007
Self
2023
2010
Creighton Bernette
2010
Pacha (voice)
2006
Self - Presenter
2005
Gale
1987
Frank
2014
Pete Klein
2012
Big Rudy
2000
Graham Bloomwood
2009
Pops Racer
2008
Big Dan Teague
2000
Senator Gil John Biggs
2013
Pacha (voice)
2005
James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
2007
Larry Verber
1999
Baloo (voice)
2003
Larry (voice)
2004
Ocious P. Potter
1997
Roland Turner
2013
Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
2012
Newsreel Announcer (voice)
1994
Judge Robert Bebe
2006
Sgt. Walter Garfield
2014
Dan Conner
1988
1999
Michael Wiseman
1999
Charlie Meadows
1991
Townsperson
1980
Al Zimmer
2011
Mighty Mack McTeer
1998
Joseph Keenan
2011
John Barnett
2004
Dave Phillips
2017
Narrator (voice)
2023
Sherman
1989
Self
1996
Sam Cooper
2015
Grimroth (voice)
2016
William Mulligan
2019
Frank King
2015
Self
1998
Harry Brock
1993
Al Yackey
1989
Self - Actor
2015
Red
1990
Louis Fyne
2018
Himself - Narrator
2008
Coach Harris
1984
Pope Sergius II.
2009
Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
2009
Frank
1984
Stan the Doorman
2011
Oklahoma Cop
2000
Self
2014
Michael Ennis
2018
Rex (voice)
1993
Delbert McClintock
1990
Neal Nicol
2010
Sulley (voice)
2002
2026
Ed Munn
1990
Self
2012
Steve Mills
2006
Marty Livingston
2001
Sullivan (voice)
2014
Hugh Rayburn
1987
Capt. Edwin Simmons
2009
Lawrence Woolsey
1993
Uncle Sweetheart
2003
Judge Tolliver
1999
(archive footage)
2012
Detective Dehling
2001
Masterson
2013
Andre DeSoto
1986
Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
1998
Rodney
2004
Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones
1991
Babe Ruth
1992
Hal Houston (voice)
2015
1996
Tough Guy Helpline Operator
1994
The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
2001
Capt. Stan Hamel
1997
Santa Claus (voice)
1998
Happy's Father
2008
Detective Nyswander
1987
Major Frank Wirtanen
1996
Self
2013
John Krytsick
1988
Mr. Wellington
2009
Santa Claus
2012
Self
1967
Himself
2014
Otis
1985
Newt 'Tub' Murray
1983
Steve Blauner
2004
Self
2013
Self
2003
Roland Jones
2000
Deepthroat
1999
Cop in Diner
1984
2012
Self
2014
Paul Bunyan (voice)
2017
Self
2019
George Wolfsbottom (voice)
2004
Phil (voice)
2000
1996
Self - Host
1990
Commando
1983
Self
1995
Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice)
2021
2007
Dan Conner
1992
Self
2015
Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
1995
Narrator
2013
Self
2002
2019
Benjamin
2001
William "Butch" Gamble
2000
Duke Earle
1988
Raymond Bohupinsky
1983
Hugh Rayburn
1987
Ed Roth (voice)
2006
Santa Claus
2006
Narrator
2001
2020
Self
1999
Mr. Hebert
1983
Tony
2002
Self
2001
Alan Davenport
1996
Lawrence
1988
Frosty the Snowman (voice)
1992
Self
1994
(archive footage)
2007
1994
Mortimer J Hamm
2009
Louis Fyne
1986
"Catfish" Crawford (voice)
2020
Huey P. Long, Jr.
1995
Mac (voice)
1998
Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")
1988
Narrator
2010
Mr. Fletcher
2012
Telegraph Operator
1980
Narrator
2017
Fred
1983
Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
2013
Himself
1999
Narrator
2011