Acting
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 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.
Filmography
Skeletons
Film · 2027
Digger
Film · 2026
Chili Finger
Film · 2026
Smurfs
Film · 2025
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
Film · 2025
Monsters Funday Football
Film · 2025
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever
Film · 2025
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
Film · 2023
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Series · 2023
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Series · 2023
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Series · 2023
The Freak Brothers
Series · 2021
Monsters at Work
Series · 2021
Easy Does It
Film · 2020
Captive State
Film · 2019
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
Film · 2019
Biography: Comedy Icons
Series · 2019
The Righteous Gemstones
Series · 2019
Real Life
Film · 2018
The Conners
Series · 2018
Black Earth Rising
Series · 2018
New Orleans: The First 300 Years
Film · 2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
Film · 2017
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Film · 2017
Kong: Skull Island
Film · 2017
Atomic Blonde
Film · 2017
Bunyan and Babe
Film · 2017
Once Upon a Time in Venice
Film · 2017
10 Cloverfield Lane
Film · 2016
Ratchet & Clank
Film · 2016
Patriots Day
Film · 2016
Trumbo
Film · 2015
Love the Coopers
Film · 2015
Live from New York!
Film · 2015
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
Film · 2015
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Film · 2015
The Monuments Men
Film · 2014
Party Central
Film · 2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Film · 2014
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Film · 2014
The Gambler
Film · 2014
Evolution Within Extinction
Film · 2014
All-Stars
Film · 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Series · 2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Series · 2014
Monsters University
Film · 2013
Inside Llewyn Davis
Film · 2013
The Hangover Part III
Film · 2013
The Internship
Film · 2013
Milius
Film · 2013
Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective
Film · 2013
The Book of Manning
Film · 2013
Alpha House
Series · 2013
Dancing on the Edge
Series · 2013
Argo
Film · 2012
Drunkboat
Film · 2012
ParaNorman
Film · 2012
Trouble with the Curve
Film · 2012
Flight
Film · 2012
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
Film · 2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Film · 2012
All Star Bowling Trick Shots
Film · 2012
The Campaign
Film · 2012
The Artist: The Making of an American Romance
Film · 2012
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Film · 2011
Red State
Film · 2011
The Artist
Film · 2011
Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night
Film · 2011
You Don't Know Jack
Film · 2010
Treme
Series · 2010
Treme
Series · 2010
Best Food Ever
Series · 2010
The Princess and the Frog
Film · 2009
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Film · 2009
Pope Joan
Film · 2009
In the Electric Mist
Film · 2009
Alabama Moon
Film · 2009
Girls Gone Gangsta
Film · 2009
Beyond All Boundaries
Film · 2009
Community
Series · 2009
Speed Racer
Film · 2008
Gigantic
Film · 2008
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans
Film · 2008
Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family
Film · 2008
Speed Racer: Car Fu
Film · 2008
Evan Almighty
Film · 2007
Bee Movie
Film · 2007
Death Sentence
Film · 2007
The Pixar Story
Film · 2007
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
Film · 2007
Damages
Series · 2007
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Series · 2007
Tales of the Rat Fink
Film · 2006
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Film · 2006
Cars
Film · 2006
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Film · 2006
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Series · 2006
The Emperor's New School
Series · 2006
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Film · 2005
Kronk's New Groove
Film · 2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Series · 2005
Beyond the Sea
Film · 2004
Freshman Orientation
Film · 2004
Clifford's Really Big Movie
Film · 2004
Father of the Pride
Series · 2004
Center of the Universe
Series · 2004
Masked and Anonymous
Film · 2003
The Jungle Book 2
Film · 2003
Overnight
Film · 2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Series · 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Series · 2003
Dirty Deeds
Film · 2002
Mike's New Car
Film · 2002
The Sweatbox
Film · 2002
Monsters, Inc.
Film · 2001
One Night at McCool's
Film · 2001
My First Mister
Film · 2001
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
Film · 2001
On the Edge
Film · 2001
Storytelling
Film · 2001
The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool
Film · 2001
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Film · 2000
What Planet Are You From?
Film · 2000
The Emperor's New Groove
Film · 2000
Coyote Ugly
Film · 2000
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
Film · 2000
Ed
Series · 2000
Normal, Ohio
Series · 2000
Pigs Next Door
Series · 2000
Bringing Out the Dead
Film · 1999
The Jack Bull
Film · 1999
Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood
Film · 1999
The Runner
Film · 1999
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Film · 1999
Discovering Bedrock
Film · 1999
Now and Again
Series · 1999
Futurama
Series · 1999
SpongeBob SquarePants
Series · 1999
The West Wing
Series · 1999
Now and Again
Series · 1999
The Big Lebowski
Film · 1998
Blues Brothers 2000
Film · 1998
Fallen
Film · 1998
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Film · 1998
Dirty Work
Film · 1998
The Real Macaw
Film · 1998
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'
Film · 1998
The Borrowers
Film · 1997
King of the Hill
Series · 1997
Soul Man
Series · 1997
Mother Night
Film · 1996
Pie in the Sky
Film · 1996
Muppets Tonight
Series · 1996
Saturday Night Special
Series · 1996
Ruby Wax Meets
Series · 1996
A Streetcar Named Desire
Film · 1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Film · 1995
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
Film · 1995
The Flintstones
Film · 1994
The Hudsucker Proxy
Film · 1994
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Film · 1994
Inside the Actors Studio
Series · 1994
Downwardly Mobile
Series · 1994
Matinee
Film · 1993
Born Yesterday
Film · 1993
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Film · 1993
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
Film · 1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Series · 1993
Grace Under Fire
Series · 1993
Frosty Returns
Film · 1992
The Babe
Film · 1992
A Friend in New Orleans
Film · 1992
The Future Is Now
Film · 1992
The Jackie Thomas Show
Series · 1992
Barton Fink
Film · 1991
King Ralph
Film · 1991
Arachnophobia
Film · 1990
Stella
Film · 1990
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
Film · 1990
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
Film · 1990
Grand
Series · 1990
American Chronicles
Series · 1990
Always
Film · 1989
Sea of Love
Film · 1989
The Simpsons
Series · 1989
The Wrong Guys
Film · 1988
Everybody's All-American
Film · 1988
Punchline
Film · 1988
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
Film · 1988
Roseanne
Series · 1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Series · 1988
Raising Arizona
Film · 1987
Burglar
Film · 1987
Murder Ordained
Film · 1987
Murder Ordained
Series · 1987
The Big Easy
Film · 1986
True Stories
Film · 1986
Sweet Dreams
Film · 1985
Moonlighting
Series · 1985
The Equalizer
Series · 1985
Revenge of the Nerds
Film · 1984
Maria's Lovers
Film · 1984
C.H.U.D.
Film · 1984
The Survivors
Film · 1983
The Face of Rage
Film · 1983
Heart of Steel
Film · 1983
Eddie Macon's Run
Film · 1983
The Mystery of the Morro Castle
Film · 1980
The Robber Bridegroom
Film · 1980
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
CMA Awards
Series · 1967
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Series · 1962
The Oscars
Series · 1953
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944