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 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).
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Primarily2026 Judy
2025 Smurfs as Papa Smurf (voice)
2025 Chili Finger Executive Producer
2023 Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain as Narrator (voice)
2020 Easy Does It as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)
2020 Birds of a Different Game: The '80s Cardinals
2019 Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
2019 Captive State as William Mulligan
2017 Atomic Blonde as Emmett Kurzfeld
2017 Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets as Igon Siruss (voice)
2017 Transformers: The Last Knight as Hound (voice)
2017 Once Upon a Time in Venice as Dave Phillips
2017 Kong: Skull Island as Bill Randa
2017 Bunyan and Babe as Paul Bunyan (voice)
2017 New Orleans: The First 300 Years as Narrator
2016 Patriots Day as Commisioner Ed Davis
2016 Ratchet & Clank as Grimroth (voice)
2016 10 Cloverfield Lane as Howard
2015 Love the Coopers as Sam Cooper
2015 Trumbo as Frank King
2015 Live from New York! as Self
2015 Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle as Houston (voice)
2015 Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead as Self - Actor
2014 The Gambler as Frank
2014 All-Stars as Himself
2014 Evolution Within Extinction as Self
2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction as Hound (voice)
2014 Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' as Self
2014 Party Central as Sullivan (voice)
2014 The Monuments Men as Sgt. Walter Garfield
2013 Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective as Self
2013 Inside Llewyn Davis as Roland Turner
2013 The Book of Manning as Narrator
2013 Monsters University as Sullivan (voice)
2013 The Internship as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
2013 The Hangover Part III as Marshall
2013 Milius as Self
2012 It's a SpongeBob Christmas! as Santa Claus
2012 Flight as Harling Mays
2012 Argo as John Chambers
2012 Trouble with the Curve as Pete Klein
2012 The Campaign as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
2012 ParaNorman as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
2012 Drunkboat as Mr. Fletcher
2012 The Artist: The Making of an American Romance as Self
2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2012 All Star Bowling Trick Shots
2011 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as Stan the Doorman
2011 The Artist as Al Zimmer
2011 Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night as Narrator
2011 Red State as Joseph Keenan
2010 You Don't Know Jack as Neal Nicol
2009 The Princess and the Frog as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
2009 Beyond All Boundaries as Capt. Edwin Simmons
2009 Alabama Moon as Mr. Wellington
2009 Pope Joan as Pope Sergius II.
2009 In the Electric Mist as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
2009 Confessions of a Shopaholic as Graham Bloomwood
2009 Girls Gone Gangsta as Mortimer J Hamm
2008 Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans as Himself - Narrator
2008 Gigantic as Happy's Father
2008 Speed Racer as Pops Racer
2007 Bee Movie as Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
2007 Death Sentence as Bones Darley
2007 The Pixar Story as James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
2007 Evan Almighty as Congressman Long
2007 Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
2006 The Year Without a Santa Claus as Santa Claus
2006 Cars as Sullivan Truck (voice)
2006 Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School as Steve Mills
2006 Tales of the Rat Fink as Ed Roth (voice)
2005 Kronk's New Groove as Pacha (voice)
2005 Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast as Self - Presenter
2004 Beyond the Sea as Steve Blauner
2004 Clifford's Really Big Movie as George Wolfsbottom (voice)
2004 Freshman Orientation as Rodney
2003 Masked and Anonymous as Uncle Sweetheart
2003 Overnight as Self
2003 The Jungle Book 2 as Baloo (voice)
2002 The Sweatbox as Himself
2002 Dirty Deeds as Tony
2002 Mike's New Car as Sulley (voice)
2001 Storytelling as Marty Livingston
2001 Monsters, Inc. as Sullivan (voice)
2001 My First Mister as Benjamin
2001 When Dinosaurs Roamed America as Narrator
2001 On the Edge as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
2001 One Night at McCool's as Detective Dehling
2000 The Emperor's New Groove as Pacha (voice)
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Big Dan Teague
2000 Coyote Ugly as Bill
2000 The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle as Oklahoma Cop
2000 What Planet Are You From? as Roland Jones
1999 Bringing Out the Dead as Larry Verber
1999 Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special as Self
1999 The Runner as Deepthroat
1999 The Jack Bull as Judge Tolliver
1999 Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood as Himself
1998 The Making of 'The Big Lebowski' as Self
1998 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie as Santa Claus (voice)
1998 The Real Macaw as Mac (voice)
1998 Dirty Work as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
1998 The Big Lebowski as Walter Sobchak
1998 Blues Brothers 2000 as Mighty Mack McTeer
1998 Fallen as Jonesy
1997 The Borrowers as Ocious P. Potter
1996 Mother Night as Major Frank Wirtanen
1996 Pie in the Sky as Alan Davenport
1995 A Streetcar Named Desire as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
1995 The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self
1995 Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long as Huey P. Long, Jr.
1994 The Flintstones as Fred Flintstone
1994 Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Tough Guy Helpline Operator
1994 The Hudsucker Proxy as Newsreel Announcer (voice)
1993 We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story as Rex (voice)
1993 Born Yesterday as Harry Brock
1993 Matinee as Lawrence Woolsey
1992 Frosty Returns as Frosty the Snowman (voice)
1992 The Babe as Babe Ruth
1991 Barton Fink as Charlie Meadows
1991 King Ralph as Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones
1990 Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash as Self - Host
1990 Arachnophobia as Delbert McClintock
1990 Stella as Ed Munn
1989 Always as Al Yackey
1989 Sea of Love as Sherman
1988 Everybody's All-American as Lawrence
1988 Punchline as John Krytsick
1988 The Wrong Guys as Duke Earle
1987 Murder Ordained as Hugh Rayburn
1987 Burglar as Detective Nyswander
1987 Raising Arizona as Gale
1986 Real Life as Louis Fyne
1986 The Big Easy as Andre DeSoto
1986 True Stories as Louis Fyne
1985 Sweet Dreams as Otis
1984 Maria's Lovers as Frank
1984 C.H.U.D. as Cop in Diner
1984 Revenge of the Nerds as Coach Harris
1983 Heart of Steel as Raymond Bohupinsky
1983 The Survivors as Commando
1983 Eddie Macon's Run as Mr. Hebert
1983 The Face of Rage as Fred
1980 The Robber Bridegroom as Townsperson
1980 The Mystery of the Morro Castle as Telegraph Operator
6.97 History 8
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6.28 Thriller 15
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6.23 Drama 51
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6.14 Comedy 61
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