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Skeletons
2027
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John Goodman
Also known as Karl Mundt, John Stephen Goodman, Jonathan Stephen Goodman
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).
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Personal details
Full filmography
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Digger
London premiereas President Compson
2026
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Chili Finger
2026
2025
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Smurfs
as Papa Smurf (voice)
2025
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Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
as Self (archive footage)
2025
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Monsters Funday Football
as Sulley (Voice)
2025
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A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever
as Doodle (voice)
2025
2023
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Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
as Narrator (voice)
2023
2020
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Easy Does It
as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)
2020
2019
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Captive State
as William Mulligan
2019
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Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
as Self
2019
2018
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Real Life
as Louis Fyne
2018
2017
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New Orleans: The First 300 Years
as Narrator
2017
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Transformers: The Last Knight
as Hound (voice)
2017
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as Igon Siruss (voice)
2017
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Kong: Skull Island
as Bill Randa
2017
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Atomic Blonde
as Emmett Kurzfeld
2017
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Bunyan and Babe
as Paul Bunyan (voice)
2017
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Once Upon a Time in Venice
as Dave Phillips
2017
2016
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10 Cloverfield Lane
as Howard
2016
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Ratchet & Clank
as Grimroth (voice)
2016
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Patriots Day
as Commisioner Ed Davis
2016
2015
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Trumbo
as Frank King
2015
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Love the Coopers
as Sam Cooper
2015
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Live from New York!
as Self
2015
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Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
as Hal Houston (voice)
2015
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
as Self - Actor
2015
2014
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The Monuments Men
as Sgt. Walter Garfield
2014
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Party Central
as Sullivan (voice)
2014
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Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Hound (voice)
2014
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Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
as Self
2014
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The Gambler
as Frank
2014
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Evolution Within Extinction
as Self
2014
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All-Stars
as Himself
2014
2013
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Monsters University
as Sullivan (voice)
2013
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Inside Llewyn Davis
as Roland Turner
2013
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The Hangover Part III
as Marshall
2013
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The Internship
as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
2013
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Milius
as Self
2013
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Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective
as Self
2013
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The Book of Manning
as Narrator
2013
2012
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Argo
as John Chambers
2012
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Drunkboat
as Mr. Fletcher
2012
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ParaNorman
as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
2012
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Trouble with the Curve
as Pete Klein
2012
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Flight
as Harling Mays
2012
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It's a SpongeBob Christmas!
as Santa Claus
2012
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
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All Star Bowling Trick Shots
2012
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The Campaign
as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
2012
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The Artist: The Making of an American Romance
as Self
2012
2011
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Stan the Doorman
2011
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Red State
as Joseph Keenan
2011
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The Artist
as Al Zimmer
2011
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Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night
as Narrator
2011
2010
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You Don't Know Jack
as Neal Nicol
2010
2009
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The Princess and the Frog
as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
2009
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Confessions of a Shopaholic
as Graham Bloomwood
2009
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Pope Joan
as Pope Sergius II.
2009
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In the Electric Mist
as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
2009