John Goodman
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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Simpsons
1989
Saturday Night Live
1975
Saturday Night Live
1975
Saturday Night Live
1975
Saturday Night Live
1975
Saturday Night Live
1975
Saturday Night Live
1975
Saturday Night Live
1975
Saturday Night Live
1975
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Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self · 1962
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest · 2014
The Simpsons
as Meathook (voice) · 1989
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host · 1975
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited) · 1975
Saturday Night Live
as Self (uncredited) · 1975
Saturday Night Live
as Linda Tripp (uncredited) · 1975
Saturday Night Live
as Nathan Barnett (uncredited) · 1975
Saturday Night Live
as The Ghost of SNL Hosts Presents (uncredited) · 1975
Saturday Night Live
as Linda Tripp (voice) (uncredited) · 1975
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Various Characters (uncredited) · 1975
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as President Compson · 2026
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self · 2005
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self · 2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest · 1988
The West Wing
as Glenallen Walken · 1999
King of the Hill
as Tommy (voice) · 1997
Futurama
as Robot Santa Claus (voice) · 1999
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest · 1993
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self · 2003
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner · 1944
Community
as Vice Dean Laybourne · 2009
Damages
as Howard Erickson · 2007
The Equalizer
as Harold Winter · 1985
Moonlighting
as Donald Chase · 1985
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
as Bill Randa · 2023
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
as Bill Randa (archive footage) · 2023
The Righteous Gemstones
as Eli Gemstone · 2019
The Conners
as Dan Conner · 2018
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self · 2014
Monsters, Inc.
as Sullivan (voice) · 2001
The Oscars
as Self · 1953
Monsters at Work
as Sulley (voice) · 2021
Grace Under Fire
as Police Officer · 1993
SpongeBob SquarePants
as Santa Claus (voice) · 1999
Cars
as Sullivan Truck (voice) · 2006
The Emperor's New School
as Pacha (voice) · 2006
Ed
as Big Rudy · 2000
Monsters University
as Sullivan (voice) · 2013
The Emperor's New Groove
as Pacha (voice) · 2000
Bee Movie
as Layton T. Montgomery (voice) · 2007
The Princess and the Frog
as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice) · 2009
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Hound (voice) · 2014
Kong: Skull Island
as Bill Randa · 2017
Treme
· 2010
Treme
as Creighton Bernette · 2010
The Big Lebowski
as Walter Sobchak · 1998
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Hound (voice) · 2017
The Hangover Part III
as Marshall · 2013
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
as Judge Robert Bebe · 2006
Muppets Tonight
as Self · 1996
Alpha House
as Senator Gil John Biggs · 2013
Evan Almighty
as Congressman Long · 2007
CMA Awards
as Self · 1967
Atomic Blonde
as Emmett Kurzfeld · 2017
10 Cloverfield Lane
as Howard · 2016
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
as Big Dan Teague · 2000
Father of the Pride
as Larry (voice) · 2004
Smurfs
as Papa Smurf (voice) · 2025
The Jungle Book 2
as Baloo (voice) · 2003
Kronk's New Groove
as Pacha (voice) · 2005
Patriots Day
as Commisioner Ed Davis · 2016
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as Igon Siruss (voice) · 2017
The Artist
as Al Zimmer · 2011
The Flintstones
as Fred Flintstone · 1994
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self · 2023
Speed Racer
as Pops · 2008
Inside Llewyn Davis
as Roland Turner · 2013
ParaNorman
as Mr. Prenderghast (voice) · 2012
Flight
as Harling Mays · 2012
Now and Again
· 1999
Now and Again
as Michael Wiseman · 1999
Fallen
as Jonesy · 1998
Roseanne
as Dan Conner · 1988
Argo
as John Chambers · 2012
Grand
as Red · 1990
Coyote Ugly
as Bill · 2000
The Monuments Men
as Sgt. Walter Garfield · 2014
Confessions of a Shopaholic
as Graham Bloomwood · 2009
Black Earth Rising
as Michael Ennis · 2018
Center of the Universe
as John Barnett · 2004
The Gambler
as Frank · 2014
Dancing on the Edge
as Masterson · 2013
The Freak Brothers
as Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice) · 2021
Love the Coopers
as Sam Cooper · 2015
The Jackie Thomas Show
as Dan Conner · 1992
Raising Arizona
as Gale · 1987
The Campaign
as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited) · 2012
Bringing Out the Dead
as Larry Verber · 1999
Sea of Love
as Sherman · 1989
Captive State
as William Mulligan · 2019
Ratchet & Clank
as Grimroth (voice) · 2016
The Pixar Story
as James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage) · 2007
Death Sentence
as Bones Darley · 2007
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Stan the Doorman · 2011
Red State
as Joseph Keenan · 2011
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
as Oklahoma Cop · 2000
Pigs Next Door
as Phil (voice) · 2000
In the Electric Mist
as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni · 2009
Normal, Ohio
as William "Butch" Gamble · 2000
Trouble with the Curve
as Pete Klein · 2012
The Hudsucker Proxy
as Newsreel Announcer (voice) · 1994
Barton Fink
as Charlie Meadows · 1991
Soul Man
as Capt. Stan Hamel · 1997
The Borrowers
as Ocious P. Potter · 1997
Once Upon a Time in Venice
as Dave Phillips · 2017
Mike's New Car
as Sulley (voice) · 2002
Revenge of the Nerds
as Coach Harris · 1984
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
as Self (segment "New Way to Walk") · 1993
Ruby Wax Meets
· 1996
Trumbo
as Frank King · 2015
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
as Rex (voice) · 1993
American Chronicles
as self · 1990
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
as Narrator (voice) · 2023
Party Central
as Sullivan (voice) · 2014
Biography: Comedy Icons
as Self · 2019
Always
as Al Yackey · 1989
Dirty Work
as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited) · 1998
C.H.U.D.
as Cop in Diner · 1984
Blues Brothers 2000
as Mighty Mack McTeer · 1998
Clifford's Really Big Movie
as George Wolfsbottom (voice) · 2004
Murder Ordained
as Hugh Rayburn · 1987
You Don't Know Jack
as Neal Nicol · 2010
What Planet Are You From?
as Roland Jones · 2000
Maria's Lovers
as Frank · 1984
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
as Hal Houston (voice) · 2015
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage) · 2012
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
as Santa Claus (voice) · 1998
Saturday Night Special
· 1996
Arachnophobia
as Delbert McClintock · 1990
The Big Easy
as Andre DeSoto · 1986
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
as Self · 1999
The Babe
as Babe Ruth · 1992
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
as Huey P. Long, Jr. · 1995
Pope Joan
as Pope Sergius II. · 2009
Skeletons
· 2027
King Ralph
as Ralph · 1991
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
as Self · 2014
Burglar
as Detective Nyswander · 1987
One Night at McCool's
as Detective Dehling · 2001
The Jack Bull
as Judge Tolliver · 1999
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
as Self - Actor · 2015
Beyond the Sea
as Steve Blauner · 2004
Chili Finger
as Blake Jr. · 2026
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
as Self - Presenter · 2005
Storytelling
as Marty Livingston · 2001
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
as Self (archive footage) · 2007
Dirty Deeds
as Tony · 2002
Everybody's All-American
as Lawrence · 1988
Eddie Macon's Run
as Mr. Hebert · 1983
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
as Santa Claus · 2012
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
as Steve Mills · 2006
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self · 1994
Matinee
as Lawrence Woolsey · 1993
Overnight
as Self · 2003
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self · 1995
Punchline
as John Krytsick · 1988
Masked and Anonymous
as Uncle Sweetheart · 2003
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
as Self · 2019
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Tough Guy Helpline Operator · 1994
A Streetcar Named Desire
as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell · 1995
The Survivors
as Commando · 1983
Frosty Returns
as Frosty the Snowman (voice) · 1992
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Santa Claus · 2006
Pie in the Sky
as Alan Davenport · 1996
Tales of the Rat Fink
as Ed Roth (voice) · 2006
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
as Self - Host · 1990
Live from New York!
as Self · 2015
My First Mister
as Benjamin · 2001
Speed Racer: Car Fu
as Self · 2008
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
as Self (archive footage) · 2025
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever
as Doodle (voice) · 2025
Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family
as Pops Racer · 2008
Downwardly Mobile
· 1994
Mother Night
as Major Frank Wirtanen · 1996
Murder Ordained
as Hugh Rayburn · 1987
Beyond All Boundaries
as Capt. Edwin Simmons · 2009
All-Stars
as Himself · 2014
Born Yesterday
as Harry Brock · 1993
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
as Self · 1990
Milius
as Self · 2013
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
as Self · 2007
Easy Does It
as "Catfish" Crawford (voice) · 2020
Bunyan and Babe
as Paul Bunyan (voice) · 2017
True Stories
as Louis Fyne · 1986
Alabama Moon
as Mr. Wellington · 2009
On the Edge
as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday") · 2001
Gigantic
as Happy's Father · 2008
Sweet Dreams
as Otis · 1985
The Book of Manning
as Narrator · 2013
The Face of Rage
as Fred · 1983
The Future Is Now
as Businessman · 1992
The Runner
as Deepthroat · 1999
Evolution Within Extinction
as Self · 2014
Stella
as Ed Munn · 1990
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'
as Self · 1998
The Real Macaw
as Mac (voice) · 1998
Discovering Bedrock
as Self · 1999
The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool
as Self · 2001
The Sweatbox
as Self · 2002
The Wrong Guys
as Duke Earle · 1988
Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective
as Self · 2013
Freshman Orientation
as Rodney · 2004
All Star Bowling Trick Shots
· 2012
New Orleans: The First 300 Years
as Narrator · 2017
The Artist: The Making of an American Romance
as Self · 2012
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
as Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life") · 1988
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
as Narrator · 2001
A Friend in New Orleans
as Himself · 1992
Best Food Ever
as Narrator · 2010
The Robber Bridegroom
as Townsperson · 1980
Girls Gone Gangsta
as Mortimer J Hamm · 2009
Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood
as Himself · 1999
Heart of Steel
as Raymond Bohupinsky · 1983
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans
as Narrator (voice) · 2008
Monsters Funday Football
as Sulley (Voice) · 2025
Drunkboat
as Mr. Fletcher · 2012
Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night
as Narrator · 2011
Real Life
as Louis Fyne · 2018
The Mystery of the Morro Castle
as Telegraph Operator · 1980
The Internship
as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited) · 2013