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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 (2…
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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.
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BODY OF WORK
John Goodman's Filmography
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Skeletons
Digger
as President Compson
Chili Finger
as Blake Jr.
Monsters Funday Football
as Sulley (Voice)
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever
as Doodle (voice)
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
as Self (archive footage)
Smurfs
as Papa Smurf (voice)
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
as Narrator (voice)
Easy Does It
as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
as Self
Captive State
as William Mulligan
No Poster
Real Life
as Louis Fyne
Atomic Blonde
as Emmett Kurzfeld
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as Igon Siruss (voice)
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Hound (voice)
Once Upon a Time in Venice
as Dave Phillips
Kong: Skull Island
as Bill Randa
Bunyan and Babe
as Paul Bunyan (voice)
New Orleans: The First 300 Years
as Narrator
Patriots Day
as Commisioner Ed Davis
Ratchet & Clank
as Grimroth (voice)
10 Cloverfield Lane
as Howard
Love the Coopers
as Sam Cooper
Trumbo
as Frank King
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
as Self - Actor
Live from New York!
as Self
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
as Hal Houston (voice)
The Gambler
as Frank
All-Stars
as Himself
Evolution Within Extinction
as Self
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Hound (voice)
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
as Self
Party Central
as Sullivan (voice)
The Monuments Men
as Sgt. Walter Garfield
Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective
as Self
Inside Llewyn Davis
as Roland Turner
The Book of Manning
as Narrator
Monsters University
as Sullivan (voice)
The Internship
as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
The Hangover Part III
as Marshall
Milius
as Self
All Star Bowling Trick Shots
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
as Santa Claus
Argo
as John Chambers
Trouble with the Curve
as Pete Klein
The Campaign
as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
ParaNorman
as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
Drunkboat
as Mr. Fletcher
The Artist: The Making of an American Romance
as Self
Flight
as Harling Mays
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Stan the Doorman
The Artist
as Al Zimmer
Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night
as Narrator
Red State
as Joseph Keenan
You Don't Know Jack
as Neal Nicol
The Princess and the Frog
as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
Beyond All Boundaries
as Capt. Edwin Simmons
Alabama Moon
as Mr. Wellington
Pope Joan
as Pope Sergius II.
In the Electric Mist
as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
Confessions of a Shopaholic
as Graham Bloomwood
Girls Gone Gangsta
as Mortimer J Hamm
Speed Racer: Car Fu
as Self
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans
as Narrator (voice)
Gigantic
as Happy's Father
Speed Racer
as Pops
Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family
as Pops Racer
Bee Movie
as Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
Death Sentence
as Bones Darley
The Pixar Story
as James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
Evan Almighty
as Congressman Long
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
as Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Santa Claus
Cars
as Sullivan Truck (voice)
Tales of the Rat Fink
as Ed Roth (voice)
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
as Steve Mills
Kronk's New Groove
as Pacha (voice)
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
as Self - Presenter
Beyond the Sea
as Steve Blauner
Clifford's Really Big Movie
as George Wolfsbottom (voice)
Freshman Orientation
as Rodney
Masked and Anonymous
as Uncle Sweetheart
Overnight
as Self
The Jungle Book 2
as Baloo (voice)
The Sweatbox
as Self
Dirty Deeds
as Tony
Mike's New Car
as Sulley (voice)
Storytelling
as Marty Livingston
Monsters, Inc.
as Sullivan (voice)
My First Mister
as Benjamin
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
as Narrator
On the Edge
as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
One Night at McCool's
as Detective Dehling
The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool
as Self
The Emperor's New Groove
as Pacha (voice)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
as Big Dan Teague
Coyote Ugly
as Bill
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
as Oklahoma Cop
What Planet Are You From?
as Roland Jones
Bringing Out the Dead
as Larry Verber
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
as Self
The Runner
as Deepthroat
The Jack Bull
as Judge Tolliver
Discovering Bedrock
as Self
Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood
as Himself
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'
as Self
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
as Santa Claus (voice)
The Real Macaw
as Mac (voice)
Dirty Work
as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
The Big Lebowski
as Walter Sobchak
Blues Brothers 2000
as Mighty Mack McTeer
Fallen
as Jonesy
The Borrowers
as Ocious P. Potter
Mother Night
as Major Frank Wirtanen
Pie in the Sky
as Alan Davenport
A Streetcar Named Desire
as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
as Huey P. Long, Jr.
The Flintstones
as Fred Flintstone
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Tough Guy Helpline Operator
The Hudsucker Proxy
as Newsreel Announcer (voice)
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
as Rex (voice)
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
as Self (segment "New Way to Walk")
Born Yesterday
as Harry Brock
Matinee
as Lawrence Woolsey
Frosty Returns
as Frosty the Snowman (voice)
The Babe
as Babe Ruth
A Friend in New Orleans
as Himself
The Future Is Now
as Businessman
Barton Fink
as Charlie Meadows
King Ralph
as Ralph
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
as Self - Host
Arachnophobia
as Delbert McClintock
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
as Self
Stella
as Ed Munn
Always
as Al Yackey
Sea of Love
as Sherman
Everybody's All-American
as Lawrence
Punchline
as John Krytsick
The Wrong Guys
as Duke Earle
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
as Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")
Murder Ordained
as Hugh Rayburn
Burglar
as Detective Nyswander
Raising Arizona
as Gale
The Big Easy
as Andre DeSoto
True Stories
as Louis Fyne
Sweet Dreams
as Otis
C.H.U.D.
as Cop in Diner
Revenge of the Nerds
as Coach Harris
Maria's Lovers
as Frank
Heart of Steel
as Raymond Bohupinsky
The Survivors
as Commando
Eddie Macon's Run
as Mr. Hebert
No Poster
The Face of Rage
as Fred
The Robber Bridegroom
as Townsperson
No Poster
The Mystery of the Morro Castle
as Telegraph Operator