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.
153 movies · 54 shows
Monsters Funday Football
2025·0.0
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever
2025·6.1
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
2025·0.0
Smurfs
2025·5.8
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
2023·6.2
Easy Does It
2020·3.3
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
2019·7.2
Captive State
2019·5.7
Real Life
2018·0.0
Atomic Blonde
2017·6.4
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017·6.7
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017·6.1
Once Upon a Time in Venice
2017·5.2
Kong: Skull Island
2017·6.6
Bunyan and Babe
2017·5.7
New Orleans: The First 300 Years
2017·0.0
Patriots Day
2016·7.1
Ratchet & Clank
2016·5.8
10 Cloverfield Lane
2016·7.0
Love the Coopers
2015·6.0
Trumbo
2015·7.2
Live from New York!
2015·5.9
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
2015·6.8
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
2015·6.7
The Gambler
2014·6.0
All-Stars
2014·6.5
Evolution Within Extinction
2014·7.7
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014·6.0
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2014·6.7
Party Central
2014·6.8
The Monuments Men
2014·6.1
Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective
2013·0.0
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013·7.2
The Book of Manning
2013·8.1
Monsters University
2013·7.1
The Internship
2013·6.2
The Hangover Part III
2013·6.2
Milius
2013·7.1
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
2012·7.0
Argo
2012·7.3
Trouble with the Curve
2012·7.0
The Campaign
2012·5.8
ParaNorman
2012·7.0
Drunkboat
2012·5.0
The Artist: The Making of an American Romance
2012·6.0
Flight
2012·6.9
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012·7.6
All Star Bowling Trick Shots
2012·0.0
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011·7.0
The Artist
2011·7.4
Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night
2011·8.0
Red State
2011·6.0
You Don't Know Jack
2010·7.0
The Princess and the Frog
2009·7.2
Beyond All Boundaries
2009·6.8
Alabama Moon
2009·6.6
Pope Joan
2009·6.8
In the Electric Mist
2009·6.1
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009·6.5
Girls Gone Gangsta
2009·2.8
Speed Racer: Car Fu
2008·0.0
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans
2008·7.7
Gigantic
2008·5.6
Speed Racer
2008·6.4
Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family
2008·7.0
Bee Movie
2007·6.0
Death Sentence
2007·6.8
The Pixar Story
2007·7.5
Evan Almighty
2007·5.6
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007·0.0
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006·5.8
Cars
2006·7.0
Tales of the Rat Fink
2006·5.9
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006·5.9
Kronk's New Groove
2005·6.4
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005·2.0
Beyond the Sea
2004·6.3
Clifford's Really Big Movie
2004·6.3
Freshman Orientation
2004·5.2
Masked and Anonymous
2003·5.2
Overnight
2003·6.3
The Jungle Book 2
2003·5.9
The Sweatbox
2002·7.0
Dirty Deeds
2002·5.5
Mike's New Car
2002·6.9
Storytelling
2001·6.5
Monsters, Inc.
2001·7.9
My First Mister
2001·6.5
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
2001·6.7
On the Edge
2001·5.5
One Night at McCool's
2001·5.9
The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool
2001·9.0
The Emperor's New Groove
2000·7.6
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000·7.3
Coyote Ugly
2000·6.3
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
2000·4.3
What Planet Are You From?
2000·5.4
Bringing Out the Dead
1999·6.6
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999·6.9
The Runner
1999·5.4
The Jack Bull
1999·6.4
Discovering Bedrock
1999·7.0
Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood
1999·6.9
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'
1998·7.5
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
1998·6.1
The Real Macaw
1998·6.0
Dirty Work
1998·6.2
The Big Lebowski
1998·7.8
Blues Brothers 2000
1998·5.3
Fallen
1998·6.8
The Borrowers
1997·6.1
Mother Night
1996·6.7
Pie in the Sky
1996·6.6
A Streetcar Named Desire
1995·6.9
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995·8.0
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
1995·6.7
The Flintstones
1994·5.4
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994·7.0
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994·7.1
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
1993·6.1
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
1993·7.0
Born Yesterday
1993·5.3
Matinee
1993·6.7
Frosty Returns
1992·5.7
The Babe
1992·5.7
A Friend in New Orleans
1992·0.0
Barton Fink
1991·7.5
King Ralph
1991·5.4
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
1990·6.6
Arachnophobia
1990·6.5
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
1990·7.2
Stella
1990·5.8
Always
1989·6.2
Sea of Love
1989·6.6
Everybody's All-American
1988·5.4
Punchline
1988·5.5
The Wrong Guys
1988·5.7
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
1988·7.8
Murder Ordained
1987·5.0
Burglar
1987·5.2
Raising Arizona
1987·7.1
The Big Easy
1986·6.2
True Stories
1986·6.7
Sweet Dreams
1985·6.4
C.H.U.D.
1984·5.6
Revenge of the Nerds
1984·6.5
Maria's Lovers
1984·6.0
Heart of Steel
1983·6.8
The Survivors
1983·5.7
Eddie Macon's Run
1983·5.9
The Face of Rage
1983·5.0
The Robber Bridegroom
1980·0.0
The Mystery of the Morro Castle
1980·0.0