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John Goodman
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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.
Notable films
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The Big Lebowski
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Monsters, Inc.
As Sullivan (voice)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Red State
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Artist
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Trumbo
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Digger
As President Compson
The Princess and the Frog
As "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Epic Journey: An Odyssey Narrative Chain
Homer's Odyssey is the foundational blueprint for the homebound journey, tracking a weary warrior's attempt to return to his family. This six-film narrative cha...
6 films
Silent Cinema's Lost Voices
A journey through the overlooked pioneers and rediscovered treasures of the silent era, from Hollywood's golden age to the avant-garde edges of early cinema.
8 films
The Writer's Fight
From Spartacus to the shadows of the blacklist, a chain of films that honours the courage of Hollywood's silenced screenwriters.
8 films
The Price of Devotion
From the riverbank to the desert, a journey through American cinema's darkest portraits of faith, charisma, and the corruption that follows.
8 films
The Perfect Needledrop: Ten Moments That Own the Screen
From sudden silences to euphoric choruses, these are the film moments where a song doesn't just score the scene, it becomes the scene.
10 films
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Digger
2026 · President Compson
Captive State
2019 · William Mulligan
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017 · Igon Siruss (voice)
Once Upon a Time in Venice
2017 · Dave Phillips
Kong: Skull Island
2017 · Bill Randa
Patriots Day
2016 · Commisioner Ed Davis
Ratchet & Clank
2016 · Grimroth (voice)
10 Cloverfield Lane
2016 · Howard
Love the Coopers
2015 · Sam Cooper
Trumbo
2015 · Frank King
The Gambler
2014 · Frank
The Monuments Men
2014 · Sgt. Walter Garfield
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013 · Roland Turner
Monsters University
2013 · Sullivan (voice)
Argo
2012 · John Chambers
ParaNorman
2012 · Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
Flight
2012 · Harling Mays
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011 · Stan the Doorman
The Artist
2011 · Al Zimmer
Red State
2011 · Joseph Keenan
The Princess and the Frog
2009 · "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
In the Electric Mist
2009 · Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
Gigantic
2008 · Happy's Father
Speed Racer
2008 · Pops
Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family
2008 · Pops Racer
Evan Almighty
2007 · Congressman Long
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006 · Steve Mills
Monsters, Inc.
2001 · Sullivan (voice)
The Emperor's New Groove
2000 · Pacha (voice)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · Big Dan Teague
Coyote Ugly
2000 · Bill
Bringing Out the Dead
1999 · Larry Verber
The Big Lebowski
1998 · Walter Sobchak
Blues Brothers 2000
1998 · Mighty Mack McTeer
Fallen
1998 · Jonesy
The Borrowers
1997 · Ocious P. Potter
The Flintstones
1994 · Fred Flintstone
Matinee
1993 · Lawrence Woolsey
Barton Fink
1991 · Charlie Meadows
King Ralph
1991 · Ralph
Arachnophobia
1990 · Delbert McClintock
Always
1989 · Al Yackey
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
1988 · Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")
Raising Arizona
1987 · Gale
True Stories
1986 · Louis Fyne
Maria's Lovers
1984 · Frank