John Goodman

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1952-06-20 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

John 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 numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Vanity Fair has called Goodman "among our very finest actors." Goodman is known for his collaborations with the Coen brothers, acting in films such as Raising Arizona (1987), Barton Fink (1991), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). He took on leading roles in King Ralph (1991), The Babe (1992), Matinee (1993),...

Acting

1998

The Big Lebowski

as Walter Sobchak

2000

1991

Barton Fink

as Charlie Meadows

1994

The Flintstones

as Fred Flintstone

1987

2001

Monsters, Inc.

as Sullivan (voice)

2001

One Night at McCool's

as Detective Dehling

2009

The Princess and the Frog

as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)

1996

Mother Night

as Major Frank Wirtanen

2007

Evan Almighty

as Congressman Long

2000

1991

King Ralph

as Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones

2009

Confessions of a Shopaholic

as Graham Bloomwood

1986

The Big Easy

as Andre DeSoto

2007

Bee Movie

as Layton T. Montgomery (voice)

1989

Always

as Al Yackey

1988

The Wrong Guys

as Duke Earle

2004

Beyond the Sea

as Steve Blauner

1990

Arachnophobia

as Delbert McClintock

2002

1998

Blues Brothers 2000

as Mighty Mack McTeer

2000

The Emperor's New Groove

as Pacha (voice)

2008

Speed Racer

as Pops Racer

2000

2007

Death Sentence

as Bones Darley

2003

Masked and Anonymous

as Uncle Sweetheart

1986

True Stories

as Louis Fyne

1999

Bringing Out the Dead

as Larry Verber

1989

Sea of Love

as Sherman

1993

Matinee

as Lawrence Woolsey

1998

Fallen

as Jonesy

2001

My First Mister

as Benjamin

1997

The Borrowers

as Ocious P. Potter

2009

Pope Joan

as Pope Sergius II.

2005

Kronk's New Groove

as Pacha (voice)

1992

Frosty Returns

as Frosty the Snowman (voice)

1988

Punchline

as John Krytsick

1983

The Survivors

as Commando

2002

Mike's New Car

as Sulley (voice)

2009

In the Electric Mist

as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni

1984

Revenge of the Nerds

as Coach Harris

1985

2010

You Don't Know Jack

as Neal Nicol

2003

The Jungle Book 2

as Baloo (voice)

2008

Gigantic

as Happy's Father

2006

Tales of the Rat Fink

as Ed Roth (voice)

1992

The Babe

as Babe Ruth

1983

2013

Monsters University

as Sullivan (voice)

1993

Born Yesterday

as Harry Brock

1999

The Jack Bull

as Judge Tolliver

2011

1987

Burglar

as Detective Nyswander

1990

Stella

as Ed Munn

1998

Dirty Work

as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)

2011

Red State

as Joseph Keenan

2012

Argo

as John Chambers

2004

Clifford's Really Big Movie

as George Wolfsbottom (voice)

2009

Alabama Moon

as Mr. Wellington

1998

The Real Macaw

as Mac (voice)

2011

The Artist

as Al Zimmer

2009

Girls Gone Gangsta

as Mortimer J Hamm

2012

Drunkboat

as Mr. Fletcher

2012

ParaNorman

as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)

2013

Inside Llewyn Davis

as Roland Turner

1984

2012

2002

2013

2014

The Monuments Men

as Sgt. Walter Garfield

2013

The Internship

as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)

1995

A Streetcar Named Desire

as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell

1999

The Runner

as Deepthroat

2012

Flight

as Harling Mays

2007

The Pixar Story

as James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)

2014

Party Central

as Sullivan (voice)

1995

1984

C.H.U.D.

as Cop in Diner

2001

On the Edge

as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")

2014

The Gambler

as Frank

2015

Trumbo

as Frank King

2012

2012

2006

Cars

as Sullivan Truck (voice)

2015

Love the Coopers

as Sam Cooper

2016

2013

Milius

as Self

2016

Ratchet & Clank

as Grimroth (voice)

2015

2017

1994

The Hudsucker Proxy

as Newsreel Announcer (voice)

2001

Storytelling

as Marty Livingston

1987

Murder Ordained

as Hugh Rayburn

2025

Smurfs

as Papa Smurf (voice)

1996

Pie in the Sky

as Alan Davenport

2017

Kong: Skull Island

as Bill Randa

2017

Atomic Blonde

as Emmett Kurzfeld

2016

Patriots Day

as Commisioner Ed Davis

2015

1983

Heart of Steel

as Raymond Bohupinsky

2014

All-Stars

as Himself

2019

Captive State

as William Mulligan

2026

2017

Bunyan and Babe

as Paul Bunyan (voice)

1980

The Mystery of the Morro Castle

as Telegraph Operator

2017

2003

Overnight

as Self

1983

Eddie Macon's Run

as Mr. Hebert

2012

The Campaign

as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)

2013

2009

Beyond All Boundaries

as Capt. Edwin Simmons

2020

Easy Does It

as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)

1980

The Robber Bridegroom

as Townsperson

2018

Real Life

as Louis Fyne

2009

Pixar Short Films

as Sulley (voice)

Production

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Chili Finger

as Executive Producer

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