John Goodman
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).
208 acting credits
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The Simpsons
1989
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Saturday Night Live
1975
The West Wing
1999
King of the Hill
1997
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
2023
Futurama
1999
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
The Equalizer
1985
Community
2009
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Damages
2007
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Moonlighting
1985
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Monsters, Inc.
2001
The Oscars
1953
Cars
2006
The Conners
2018
Ed
2000
The Righteous Gemstones
2019
Monsters at Work
2021
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
The Emperor's New Groove
2000
The Jackie Thomas Show
1992
SpongeBob SquarePants
1999
Grace Under Fire
1993
The Princess and the Frog
2009
Kong: Skull Island
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Treme
2010
The Big Lebowski
1998
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017
Monsters University
2013
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
Bee Movie
2007
The Emperor's New School
2006
Smurfs
2025
Speed Racer
2008
Alpha House
2013
The Hangover Part III
2013
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023
Father of the Pride
2004
Argo
2012
10 Cloverfield Lane
2016
Atomic Blonde
2017
Muppets Tonight
1996
Black Earth Rising
2018
Coyote Ugly
2000
Now and Again
1999
Roseanne
1988
Flight
2012
Grand
1990
Evan Almighty
2007
Fallen
1998
Dancing on the Edge
2013
ParaNorman
2012
The Monuments Men
2014
Patriots Day
2016
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
The Flintstones
1994
Soul Man
1997
Kronk's New Groove
2005
The Jungle Book 2
2003
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009
Digger
2026
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013
Raising Arizona
1987
The Gambler
2014
Center of the Universe
2004
Always
1989
Trouble with the Curve
2012
The Freak Brothers
2021
The Artist
2011
CMA Awards
1967
Sea of Love
1989
Bringing Out the Dead
1999
Maria's Lovers
1984
The Borrowers
1997
Ruby Wax Meets
1996
The Campaign
2012
Captive State
2019
Barton Fink
1991
Pigs Next Door
2000
Trumbo
2015
Normal, Ohio
2000
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Death Sentence
2007
Revenge of the Nerds
1984
Blues Brothers 2000
1998
Ratchet & Clank
2016
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011
Love the Coopers
2015
Red State
2011
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
2023
Biography: Comedy Icons
2019
The Pixar Story
2007
Murder Ordained
1987
Once Upon a Time in Venice
2017
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
2000
Arachnophobia
1990
In the Electric Mist
2009
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
1993
Evolution Within Extinction
2014
Dirty Work
1998
Mike's New Car
2002
C.H.U.D.
1984
The Big Easy
1986
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994
Saturday Night Special
1996
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
1998
Pope Joan
2009
Chili Finger
2026
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
2015
Burglar
1987
Matinee
1993
The Jack Bull
1999
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
One Night at McCool's
2001
You Don't Know Jack
2010
Storytelling
2001
Masked and Anonymous
2003
The Wrong Guys
1988
Beyond the Sea
2004
What Planet Are You From?
2000
King Ralph
1991
My First Mister
2001
Punchline
1988
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
2007
Born Yesterday
1993
Beyond All Boundaries
2009
True Stories
1986
Stella
1990
Milius
2013
Clifford's Really Big Movie
2004
Gigantic
2008
The Babe
1992
Overnight
2003
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
All-Stars
2014
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever
2025
The Survivors
1983
Alabama Moon
2009
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
2012
Party Central
2014
American Chronicles
1990
Dirty Deeds
2002
Everybody's All-American
1988
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
1993
A Streetcar Named Desire
1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
Downwardly Mobile
1994
Freshman Orientation
2004
Mother Night
1996
The Sweatbox
2002
Sweet Dreams
1985
Live from New York!
2015
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
2019
Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective
2013
Frosty Returns
1992
Eddie Macon's Run
1983
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2014
Monsters Funday Football
2025
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005
Best Food Ever
2010
On the Edge
2001
Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood
1999
The Real Macaw
1998
The Face of Rage
1983
The Runner
1999
The Book of Manning
2013
Bunyan and Babe
2017
Tales of the Rat Fink
2006
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
1988
Pie in the Sky
1996
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
2015
Drunkboat
2012
Murder Ordained
1987
Easy Does It
2020
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
1990
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'
1998
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
1995
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
2001
Heart of Steel
1983
The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool
2001
The Robber Bridegroom
1980
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
2025
The Artist: The Making of an American Romance
2012
All Star Bowling Trick Shots
2012
Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family
2008
Real Life
2018
Discovering Bedrock
1999
The Internship
2013
Girls Gone Gangsta
2009
A Friend in New Orleans
1992
Speed Racer: Car Fu
2008
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans
2008
The Mystery of the Morro Castle
1980
Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night
2011
New Orleans: The First 300 Years
2017