John Goodman

Acting · 4.6 popularity

Age

Movies

156

Born: June 20, 1952
From: 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.

Works

156 films

Monsters, Inc.

20017.9

Cars

20067.0

The Big Lebowski

19987.8

Bee Movie

20076.0

Transformers: Age of Extinction

20146.0

The Emperor's New Groove

20007.6

The Princess and the Frog

20097.2

Kong: Skull Island

20176.6

Monsters University

20137.1

Transformers: The Last Knight

20176.1

Smurfs

20255.7

The Hangover Part III

20136.2

Argo

20127.3

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

20176.7

Atomic Blonde

20176.4

Evan Almighty

20075.6

Speed Racer

20086.4

10 Cloverfield Lane

20167.0

Coyote Ugly

20006.3

Digger

2026

The Flintstones

19945.4

Flight

20126.9

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

20007.3

Patriots Day

20167.1

Fallen

19986.8

Arachnophobia

19906.5

ParaNorman

20127.0

The Artist

20117.4

Confessions of a Shopaholic

20096.5

The Monuments Men

20146.1

The Gambler

20146.0

The Jungle Book 2

20035.9

Kronk's New Groove

20056.4

The Campaign

20125.8

Sea of Love

19896.6

Maria's Lovers

19846.0

Raising Arizona

19877.1

Inside Llewyn Davis

20137.2

The Borrowers

19976.1

Bringing Out the Dead

19996.6

Red State

20116.0

Revenge of the Nerds

19846.5

Death Sentence

20076.8

Once Upon a Time in Venice

20175.2

Trouble with the Curve

20127.0

Barton Fink

19917.5

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

20117.0

Captive State

20195.7

C.H.U.D.

19845.7

Love the Coopers

20156.0

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

20004.3

Blues Brothers 2000

19985.3

Always

19896.2

The Babe

19925.7

Ratchet & Clank

20165.8

The Hudsucker Proxy

19947.1

Dirty Work

19986.2

Party Central

20146.8

Mike's New Car

20026.9

King Ralph

19915.4

Trumbo

20157.2

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

19936.1

Pope Joan

20096.8

The Big Easy

19866.2

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

The Pixar Story

20077.5

One Night at McCool's

20015.9

Chili Finger

2026

In the Electric Mist

20096.1

Dirty Deeds

20025.5

Bunyan and Babe

20175.7

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie

19986.1

Everybody's All-American

19885.4

Burglar

19875.2

The Jack Bull

19996.4

Overnight

20036.3

Skeletons

2027

Clifford's Really Big Movie

20046.3

Matinee

19936.7

Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle

20156.8

What Planet Are You From?

20005.4

Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

20146.7

Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long

19956.7

Masked and Anonymous

20035.2

You Don't Know Jack

20107.0

Tales of the Rat Fink

20065.9

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

19937.0

Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh

20197.2

Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain

20236.2

Storytelling

20016.6

Punchline

19885.5

A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever

20256.1

The Survivors

19835.7

Born Yesterday

19935.3

Mother Night

19966.7

Evolution Within Extinction

20147.7

Eddie Macon's Run

19835.9

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead

20156.7

True Stories

19866.7

Heart of Steel

19836.8

It's a SpongeBob Christmas!

20127.1

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

20052.0

Beyond the Sea

20046.3

Beyond All Boundaries

20096.8

All Star Bowling Trick Shots

2012

New Orleans: The First 300 Years

2017

The Year Without a Santa Claus

20065.8

A Streetcar Named Desire

19956.9

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

20065.9

Sweet Dreams

19856.4

The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'

19987.5

Speed Racer: Car Fu

2008

Gigantic

20085.6

Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years

19907.2

Stella

19905.8

Monsters Funday Football

2025

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

My First Mister

20016.5

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

19996.9

Alabama Moon

20096.6

Pie in the Sky

19966.6

The Book of Manning

20138.1

Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation

2007

Frosty Returns

19925.7

Milius

20137.1

The Sweatbox

20027.0

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

19947.0

The Wrong Guys

19885.7

Easy Does It

20203.3

Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash

19906.6

Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant

19887.8

Murder Ordained

19875.0

All-Stars

20146.5

On the Edge

20015.5

Discovering Bedrock

19997.0

Freshman Orientation

20045.2

Drunkboat

20125.0

The Robber Bridegroom

1980

Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family

20087.0

Girls Gone Gangsta

20092.8

Live from New York!

20155.9

The Runner

19995.4

When Dinosaurs Roamed America

20016.7

A Friend in New Orleans

1992

The Real Macaw

19986.0

The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool

20019.0

Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special

2025

The Face of Rage

19835.0

The Artist: The Making of an American Romance

20124.0

The Mystery of the Morro Castle

1980

Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective

2013

Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night

20118.0

Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood

19996.9

Real Life

2018

The Internship

20136.2

Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans

20087.7