Monsters, Inc.2001
As Sullivan (voice)
TMDb 7.9 / 10
John Goodman
Born
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 (157)
Cars2006
As Sullivan Truck (voice)
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Digger2026
As President Compson
The Princess and the Frog2009
As "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Transformers: Age of Extinction2014
As Hound (voice)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Big Lebowski1998
As Walter Sobchak
TMDb 7.8 / 10
The Emperor's New Groove2000
As Pacha (voice)
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Bee Movie2007
As Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Transformers: The Last Knight2017
As Hound (voice)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Monsters University2013
As Sullivan (voice)
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Atomic Blonde2017
As Emmett Kurzfeld
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Kong: Skull Island2017
As Bill Randa
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Hangover Part III2013
As Marshall
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Patriots Day2016
As Commisioner Ed Davis
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Smurfs2025
As Papa Smurf (voice)
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Evan Almighty2007
As Congressman Long
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets2017
As Igon Siruss (voice)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
10 Cloverfield Lane2016
As Howard
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Argo2012
As John Chambers
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Confessions of a Shopaholic2009
As Graham Bloomwood
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Coyote Ugly2000
As Bill
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Jungle Book 22003
As Baloo (voice)
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Flight2012
As Harling Mays
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Speed Racer2008
As Pops
TMDb 6.4 / 10
O Brother, Where Art Thou?2000
As Big Dan Teague
TMDb 7.3 / 10
ParaNorman2012
As Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Fallen1998
As Jonesy
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Flintstones1994
As Fred Flintstone
TMDb 5.4 / 10
The Gambler2014
As Frank
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Sea of Love1989
As Sherman
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Raising Arizona1987
As Gale
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Artist2011
As Al Zimmer
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close2011
As Stan the Doorman
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Monuments Men2014
As Sgt. Walter Garfield
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Kronk's New Groove2005
As Pacha (voice)
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Inside Llewyn Davis2013
As Roland Turner
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Ratchet & Clank2016
As Grimroth (voice)
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Bringing Out the Dead1999
As Larry Verber
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Captive State2019
As William Mulligan
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Barton Fink1991
As Charlie Meadows
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Campaign2012
As Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Borrowers1997
As Ocious P. Potter
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Hudsucker Proxy1994
As Newsreel Announcer (voice)
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Death Sentence2007
As Bones Darley
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Love the Coopers2015
As Sam Cooper
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Once Upon a Time in Venice2017
As Dave Phillips
TMDb 5.2 / 10
The Pixar Story2007
As James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Mike's New Car2002
As Sulley (voice)
TMDb 6.9 / 10
C.H.U.D.1984
As Cop in Diner
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Trouble with the Curve2012
As Pete Klein
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Always1989
As Al Yackey
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Red State2011
As Joseph Keenan
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Maria's Lovers1984
As Frank
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Party Central2014
As Sullivan (voice)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Revenge of the Nerds1984
As Coach Harris
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Arachnophobia1990
As Delbert McClintock
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Trumbo2015
As Frank King
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead2015
As Self - Actor
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Dirty Work1998
As Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Blues Brothers 20001998
As Mighty Mack McTeer
TMDb 5.3 / 10
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story1993
As Rex (voice)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Babe1992
As Babe Ruth
TMDb 5.7 / 10
One Night at McCool's2001
As Detective Dehling
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Burglar1987
As Detective Nyswander
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Pope Joan2009
As Pope Sergius II.
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Big Easy1986
As Andre DeSoto
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle2000
As Oklahoma Cop
TMDb 4.3 / 10
What Planet Are You From?2000
As Roland Jones
TMDb 5.4 / 10
King Ralph1991
As Ralph
TMDb 5.4 / 10
In the Electric Mist2009
As Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Chili Finger2026
As Blake Jr.
Matinee1993
As Lawrence Woolsey
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain2023
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Overnight2003
As Self
TMDb 6.4 / 10
You Don't Know Jack2010
As Neal Nicol
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Dirty Deeds2002
As Tony
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Skeletons
Skeletons2027
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie1998
As Santa Claus (voice)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen2012
As (archive footage)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Jack Bull1999
As Judge Tolliver
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Punchline1988
As John Krytsick
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Mother Night1996
As Major Frank Wirtanen
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration1993
As Self (segment "New Way to Walk")
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Bunyan and Babe2017
As Paul Bunyan (voice)
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Beyond the Sea2004
As Steve Blauner
TMDb 6.3 / 10
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!2012
As Santa Claus
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Clifford's Really Big Movie2004
As George Wolfsbottom (voice)
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Survivors1983
As Commando
TMDb 5.7 / 10
True Stories1986
As Louis Fyne
TMDb 6.7 / 10
My First Mister2001
As Benjamin
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Frosty Returns1992
As Frosty the Snowman (voice)
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Stella1990
As Ed Munn
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School2006
As Steve Mills
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Storytelling2001
As Marty Livingston
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Easy Does It2020
As "Catfish" Crawford (voice)
TMDb 3.3 / 10
Sweet Dreams1985
As Otis
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle2015
As Hal Houston (voice)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Born Yesterday1993
As Harry Brock
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long1995
As Huey P. Long, Jr.
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Eddie Macon's Run1983
As Mr. Hebert
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Masked and Anonymous2003
As Uncle Sweetheart
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Everybody's All-American1988
As Lawrence
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special1999
As Self
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Discovering Bedrock1999
As Self
TMDb 7.0 / 10
A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever2025
As Doodle (voice)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'2014
As Self
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Year Without a Santa Claus2006
As Santa Claus
TMDb 5.8 / 10
On the Edge2001
As The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Pie in the Sky1996
As Alan Davenport
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Live from New York!2015
As Self
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Evolution Within Extinction2014
As Self
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Tales of the Rat Fink2006
As Ed Roth (voice)
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Runner1999
As Deepthroat
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Murder Ordained1987
As Hugh Rayburn
TMDb 5.0 / 10
The Face of Rage
The Face of Rage1983
As Fred
TMDb 5.0 / 10
A Streetcar Named Desire1995
As Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Heart of Steel1983
As Raymond Bohupinsky
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies1995
As Self
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Wrong Guys1988
As Duke Earle
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Artist: The Making of an American Romance2012
As Self
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Alabama Moon2009
As Mr. Wellington
TMDb 6.6 / 10
All-Stars2014
As Himself
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation2007
As Self
Monsters Funday Football2025
As Sulley (Voice)
The Real Macaw1998
As Mac (voice)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast2005
As Self - Presenter
TMDb 2.0 / 10
Milius2013
As Self
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Speed Racer: Car Fu2008
As Self
Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family2008
As Pops Racer
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years1990
As Self
TMDb 7.2 / 10
When Dinosaurs Roamed America2001
As Narrator
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Freshman Orientation2004
As Rodney
TMDb 5.3 / 10
A Friend in New Orleans1992
As Himself
Gigantic2008
As Happy's Father
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!1994
As Tough Guy Helpline Operator
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Girls Gone Gangsta2009
As Mortimer J Hamm
TMDb 2.8 / 10
Beyond All Boundaries2009
As Capt. Edwin Simmons
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Future Is Now1992
As Businessman
The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'1998
As Self
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Book of Manning2013
As Narrator
TMDb 7.9 / 10
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh2019
As Self
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Robber Bridegroom1980
As Townsperson
New Orleans: The First 300 Years2017
As Narrator
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special2025
As Self (archive footage)
Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective2013
As Self
The Sweatbox2002
As Self
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Drunkboat2012
As Mr. Fletcher
TMDb 5.0 / 10
The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool2001
As Self
TMDb 9.0 / 10
All Star Bowling Trick Shots2012
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash1990
As Self - Host
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Real Life
Real Life2018
As Louis Fyne
Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans2008
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night2011
As Narrator
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood1999
As Himself
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant1988
As Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")
TMDb 7.8 / 10
The Mystery of the Morro Castle
The Mystery of the Morro Castle1980
As Telegraph Operator
The Internship2013
As Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb