John Goodman is an American actor known for his roles in film, television and theatre.
Goodman gained national fame for his role as the family patriarch Dan Conner in the ABC television series Roseanne (1988–1997; 2018), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in 1993, and reprised the role in its sequel series The Conners . He is also known as a character actor appearing as a regular collaborator with the Coen brothers. Goodman has appeared in five of their films Raising Arizona (1987), Barton Fink (1991), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013).
Goodman's other film performances include lead roles in Stella (1990), King Ralph (1991), The Babe (1992), The Flintstones (1994), Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), and 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), and supporting roles in True Stories (1986), Storytelling (2001), Beyond the Sea (2004), Evan Almighty (2007), Speed Racer (2008), Pope Joan (2009), The Artist (2011), Argo (2012), The Hangover Part III (2013), The Monuments Men (2014), Trumbo (2015), Patriots Day (2016), and Atomic Blonde (2017).
Goodman is also known for his vocal performances in various animated films. His voice roles include The Emperor's New Groove (2000), Pixar's Monsters, Inc. films (2001–2020), The Jungle Book 2 (2003), Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004), Bee Movie (2007) and The Princess and the Frog (2009).
On television, Goodman has starred in the Amazon Studios political comedy series Alpha House (2012–2013), the first season of HBO's Treme (2010–2011), [1] the NBC sitcom Community , and the HBO comedy The Righteous Gemstones (2019–present). He is also known as a frequent host of Saturday Night Live having served as a host 13 times. [2]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1983 | Eddie Macon's Run | Herbert | ||
The Survivors | Commando | |||
1984 | Crackers | Cracker | ||
C.H.U.D. | Cop in Diner | |||
Maria's Lovers | Frank | |||
Revenge of the Nerds | Coach Harris | |||
1985 | Sweet Dreams | Otis | ||
1986 | True Stories | Louis Fyne | ||
1987 | The Big Easy | Detective Andre DeSoto | ||
Raising Arizona | Gale Snoats | |||
Burglar | Detective Nyswander | |||
1988 | The Wrong Guys | Duke Earle | ||
Punchline | John Krytsick | |||
Everybody's All-American | Edward Lawrence | |||
1989 | Sea of Love | Detective Sherman Touhey | ||
Always | Al Yackey | |||
1990 | Stella | Ed Munn | ||
Arachnophobia | Delbert McClintock | |||
1991 | King Ralph | Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones | ||
Barton Fink | Charlie Meadows / Karl Mundt | |||
1992 | The Babe | George Herman "Babe" Ruth | ||
1993 | Matinee | Lawrence Woolsey | ||
Born Yesterday | Harry Brock | |||
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story | Rex The Dinosaur | Voice | ||
1994 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Newsreel Announcer | Credited as Karl Mundt | [3] |
The Flintstones | Fred Flintstone | |||
1996 | Pie in the Sky | Alan Davenport | ||
Mother Night | Major Frank Wirtanen | |||
1997 | The Borrowers | Ocious P. Potter | ||
1998 | Fallen | Detective "Jonesy" Jones | ||
Blues Brothers 2000 | Mack "Mighty Mack" McTeer | |||
The Big Lebowski | Walter Sobchak | |||
Dirty Work | Mayor Adrian Riggins | Uncredited | [4] | |
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie | Santa Claus | Voice | ||
The Real Macaw | Mac The Parrot | Voice; US Version | ||
1999 | The Runner | Deepthroat | ||
Bringing Out the Dead | Larry Verber | |||
The Jack Bull | Judge Joe B. Tolliver | |||
2000 | What Planet Are You From? | Roland Jones | ||
O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Daniel "Big Dan" Teague | |||
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle | Oklahoma Highway Patrol Officer | Cameo | ||
Coyote Ugly | William James Sanford | |||
The Emperor's New Groove | Pacha | Voice | ||
2001 | My First Mister | Benjamin Wilson | ||
One Night at McCool's | Detective Dehling | |||
Storytelling | Marty Livingston | Segment: "Non-Fiction" | ||
Happy Birthday | The Dean | |||
Monsters, Inc. | James P. "Sulley" Sullivan | Voice | ||
2002 | Mike's New Car | Voice; Short film | ||
Dirty Deeds | Tony Testano | |||
2003 | Masked and Anonymous | Uncle Sweetheart | ||
The Jungle Book 2 | Baloo | Voice | ||
2004 | Freshman Orientation | Rodney | ||
Clifford's Really Big Movie | George Wolfsbottom | Voice | ||
Beyond the Sea | Steve "Boom-Boom" Blauner | |||
2005 | Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School | Steve Mills | ||
Kronk's New Groove | Pacha | Voice; Direct-to-DVD | ||
2006 | Cars | James P. "Sulley" Sullivan Truck | Voice; Cameo | |
Tales of the Rat Fink | Ed "Big Daddy" Roth | Voice; Documentary film | ||
2007 | Death Sentence | "Bones" Darley | ||
Evan Almighty | Congressman Chuck Long | |||
Bee Movie | Layton T. Montgomery | Voice | ||
2008 | Speed Racer | Pops Racer | ||
Gigantic | Al Lolly | |||
2009 | Confessions of a Shopaholic | Graham Bloomwood | ||
In the Electric Mist | Julie "Baby Feet" Balboni | |||
Alabama Moon | Mr. Wellington | |||
Beyond All Boundaries | Captain Edwin Simmons | Voice; Short film | ||
The Princess and the Frog | Eli "Big Daddy" La Bouff | Voice | ||
Pope Joan | Pope Sergius II | |||
Drunkboat | Mr. Fletcher | |||
2010 | The Big Uneasy | Narrator | ||
2011 | The Artist | Al Zimmer | ||
Red State | Joseph Keenan | |||
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Stan, The Doorman | |||
2012 | ParaNorman | Mr. Prendergast | Voice | |
The Campaign | Scott Talley | Cameo | ||
Trouble with the Curve | Pete Klein | |||
Argo | John Chambers | |||
Flight | Harling Mays | |||
2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Roland Turner | ||
The Hangover Part III | Marshall | |||
The Internship | Sammy Boscoe | Uncredited | ||
Monsters University | James P. "Sulley" Sullivan | Voice | ||
2014 | The Monuments Men | Captain Walter Garfield | ||
Party Central | James P. "Sulley" Sullivan | Voice; Short film | ||
Transformers: Age of Extinction | Hound | Voice | [5] | |
The Gambler | Frank "Little Frank" | |||
2015 | Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle | Hal Houston | Voice; Direct-to-DVD | |
Trumbo | Frank King | |||
Love the Coopers | Sam Cooper | |||
2016 | 10 Cloverfield Lane | Howard Stambler | ||
Ratchet & Clank | Grimroth | Voice | ||
Patriots Day | Ed Davis | |||
2017 | Bunyan and Babe | Paul Bunyan | Voice | |
Kong: Skull Island | William "Bill" J. Randa | |||
Atomic Blonde | CIA Agent Emmett Kurzfeld | |||
Once Upon a Time in Venice | Dave Phillips | |||
Transformers: The Last Knight | Hound | Voice | [6] | |
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | Igon Siruss | |||
2019 | Captive State | William Mulligan | ||
Easy Does It | "Catfish" Crawford | Voice | ||
2022 | Take Me to the River: New Orleans | Narrator | Documentary film | |
2023 | Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain | Narrator |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1980 | The Mystery of the Morro Castle | Telegraph Operator | Television film / Documentary | [7] |
1983 | The Face of Rage | Fred | Television film | |
Heart of Steel | Raymond Bohupinsky | |||
Chiefs | Newt "Tub" Murray | Episode: "Part 3" | ||
1987 | The Equalizer | Harold Winter | Episode: "Re-Entry" | |
Moonlighting | Donald Chase | Episode: "Come Back Little Shiksa" | ||
Murder Ordained | Hugh Rayburn | Television film | ||
1988–1997, 2018 | Roseanne | Dan Conner | 220 episodes | |
1989–2013 | Saturday Night Live | Himself / Host | 13 episodes | |
1990 | Grand | "Red" | Episode: "The Healing" | |
1992 | The Jackie Thomas Show | Dan Conner | Episode: "The Joke" | |
Frosty Returns | Frosty the Snowman | Voice; TV special | ||
1993 | Grace Under Fire | Police Officer | Episode: "Pilot"; Uncredited | [8] |
1994 | Sesame Street | Himself | 2 episodes | |
1995 | Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long | Huey Long | Television film | |
A Streetcar Named Desire | Harold "Mitch" Mitchell | |||
1997–1998 | Soul Man | Captain Stan Hamel | 2 episodes | |
1999 | The Simpsons | Meathook | Voice; Episode: "Take My Wife, Sleaze" | |
Futurama | Robot Santa | Voice; Episode: "Xmas Story" | ||
1999–2000 | Now and Again | Michael Wiseman | 2 episodes | |
2000 | Pigs Next Door | Phil Stymington | Voice; 13 episodes | |
Normal, Ohio | William "Butch" Gamble | 13 episodes | ||
2001 | When Dinosaurs Roamed America | The Narrator | Voice; Television film | |
Ed | Rudy "Big Rudy" | Episode: "Loyalties" | ||
2003–2004 | The West Wing | Speaker Glen Allen Walken | 4 episodes | |
2004–2005 | Father of the Pride | Larry | Voice; 15 episodes | |
Center of the Universe | John Barnett | 12 episodes | ||
2006 | Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip | Judge Bobby Bebe | 2 episodes | |
Odd Job Jack | Garbage Czar | Voice; Episode: "The Big Dump" | ||
The Year Without a Santa Claus | Santa Claus | Television film | ||
2007 | King of the Hill | Tommy | Voice; Episode: "SerPUNt" | |
2007–2008 | The Emperor's New School | Pacha | Voice; 16 episodes | |
2010 | You Don't Know Jack | Neal Nicol | Television film | |
2010–2011 | Treme | Creighton Bernette | 13 episodes | |
2011 | Damages | Howard T. Erickson | 10 episodes | |
2011–2012 | Community | Vice Dean Robert Laybourne | 6 episodes | [9] |
2012, 2019 | SpongeBob SquarePants | Santa Claus / Himself | Voice; Episode: "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" Live-action; Episode: "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" | |
2013 | Dancing on the Edge | Masterson | 5 episodes | |
2013–2014 | Alpha House | Gil John Biggs | 21 episodes | |
2016–2018 | Saturday Night Live | Rex Tillerson | 3 episodes | [10] |
2018 | Black Earth Rising | Michael Ennis | 8 episodes | |
2018–present | The Conners | Dan Conner | 93 episodes | |
2019–present | The Righteous Gemstones | Eli Gemstone | 27 episodes | |
2020 | Birds of a Different Game: The 80's Cardinals | The Narrator | Voice; Documentary | |
2020–present | The Freak Brothers | Freddy "Fat Freddy" | Voice; 10 episodes | |
2021–present | Monsters at Work | James P. "Sulley" Sullivan | Voice; 9 episodes | [11] |
2023–2024 | Monarch: Legacy of Monsters | Older Bill Randa | 2 episodes | [12] |
Year | Title | Voice role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1994 | The Flintstones | Fred Flintstone | |
1996 | Pyst | King Mattruss (live-action) | |
2001 | The Emperor's New Groove: Groove Center | Pacha | |
2002 | Mike's Monstrous Adventure | James P. "Sulley" Sullivan | |
Monsters, Inc. Scream Arena | |||
2007 | Bee Movie Game | Layton T. Montgomery | |
Cars Mater-National Championship | James P. "Sulley" Sullivan Truck | ||
2009 | Cars Race-O-Rama | ||
2011 | Rage | Dan Hagar | |
2018 | Lego The Incredibles | James P. "Sulley" Sullivan | |
2023 | Disney Dreamlight Valley | Added in a February 2024 update |
Year | Title | Role | Venue | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1975 | Destry Rides Again | Tom Destry | Tent Theatre, SMSU | [13] |
1981 | Henry IV Part I | Blunt | Delacorte Theater | [14] |
1983 | Triple Feature | Winninger (Half) | Stage 73 | [15] |
1984–1985 | Big River | Pap Finn | American Repertory Theater La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway | [16] |
1998 | The Skin of Our Teeth | Mr. Antrobus | Delacorte Theater | [17] |
2001 | The Seagull | Shamrayev | [18] | |
2002 | The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Emanuele Giri | Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts | |
2005 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Big Daddy | The Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles | |
2008 | A Christmas Carol | Ghost of Christmas Present | Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles | [19] |
2009 | Waiting for Godot | Pozzo | Studio 54, Broadway | [20] |
2015 | American Buffalo | Donny | Wyndham's Theatre, West End | [21] |
2016–2017 | The Front Page | Sheriff Hartman | Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway | [22] |
Martha Plimpton is an American actress, activist, and former model. Her feature-film debut was in Rollover (1981); she subsequently rose to prominence in the Richard Donner film The Goonies (1985). She has also appeared in The Mosquito Coast (1986), Shy People (1987), Running on Empty (1988), Parenthood (1989), Samantha (1992), Small Town Murder Songs (2011), Frozen II (2019), and Mass (2021).
Steven Vincent Buscemi is an American actor. Buscemi is known for his work as an acclaimed character actor. His early credits consist of major roles in independent film productions such as the AIDS drama Parting Glances (1986), Mystery Train (1989), In the Soup (1992), and his breakout role as Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992).
John Stephen Goodman 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, Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He received a Disney Legend Award in 2013. Vanity Fair has called him "among our very finest actors."
Nathan Lane is an American actor. Since 1975, he has been seen on stage and screen in both comedic and dramatic roles. Lane has received numerous awards, including three Tony Awards, six Drama Desk Awards, two Obie Awards, the Olivier Award, three Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Lane received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2008. In 2010, The New York Times hailed Lane as "the greatest stage entertainer of the decade".
John Michael Turturro is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his varied complex roles in independent films. He has appeared in over sixty feature films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler, and Spike Lee. He has received a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for four Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.
Martin Hayter Short is a Canadian and American actor, comedian, and writer. Short is known as an energetic comedian who gained prominence for his roles in sketch comedy. He has also acted in numerous films and television shows. He has received various awards including two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. Short was awarded as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2019.
Ken Watanabe is a Japanese actor. To English-speaking audiences, he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Among other awards, he has won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for Shizumanu Taiyō. He is also known for his roles in Christopher Nolan's films Batman Begins and Inception, as well as Memoirs of a Geisha, and Pokémon Detective Pikachu.
Anthony Marc Shalhoub is an American actor. His breakout role was as Antonio Scarpacci on the sitcom Wings from 1991 to 1997. He later starred as Adrian Monk in the USA Network series Monk from 2002 to 2009, earning three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. For his supporting role as Abe Weissman on Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
Stanley Oliver Tucci Jr. is an American actor. Known as a character actor, he has played a wide variety of roles ranging from menacing to sophisticated. Tucci has earned numerous accolades, including six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award.
David Hyde Pierce is an American actor. For his portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier from 1993 to 2004, he received four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series as well as two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Pierce has also received five Golden Globe Awards nominations for Best Supporting Actor for the role. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role of Lt. Frank Cioffi in the Broadway musical Curtains (2007).
Walter Stacy Keach Jr. is an American actor, active in theatre, film and television since the 1960s. Keach first distinguished himself in Off-Broadway productions and remained a prominent figure in American theatre across his career, particularly as a noted Shakespearean. He is the recipient of several theatrical accolades, four Drama Desk Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards and two Obie Awards for Distinguished Performance by an Actor. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in Arthur Kopit's 1969 production of Indians.
Audra Ann McDonald is an American actress and singer. Primarily known for her work on the Broadway stage, she has won six Tony Awards, more performance wins than any other actor, and is the only person to win in all four acting categories. In addition to her six Tony Awards she has received numerous accolades including two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. She was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 2016 from President Barack Obama, and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2017.
David Bowditch Morse is an American actor. He first came to national attention as Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison in the medical drama series St. Elsewhere (1982–88). His film career has included roles in The Negotiator, The Good Son, Horns, Contact, The Green Mile, Dancer in the Dark, Disturbia, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Rock and 12 Monkeys.
Richard Kind is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his roles as Dr. Mark Devanow in Mad About You, Paul Lassiter in Spin City (1996–2002), Andy in Curb Your Enthusiasm (2002–2021), and Captain Stan Yenko in East New York (2022–2023). He has appeared in films such as Johns (1996), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006), Big Stan (2007), A Serious Man (2009), Argo (2012), Suburbicon (2017), Bombshell (2019), Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021), and Beau Is Afraid (2023).
Julie K. White is an American actress. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in The Little Dog Laughed in 2007. She has also received three other Tony Award nominations for her performances in Airline Highway in 2013, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus in 2019 and POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive in 2022. She played Sam Witwicky's mother in Transformers film series (2007-2011).
Andrew Scott Rannells is an American actor and singer. He is best known for originating the role of Elder Kevin Price in the 2011 Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. He received his second Tony nomination in 2017 for his performance as Whizzer in the 2016 Broadway revival of Falsettos. Other Broadway credits include Hairspray (2005), Jersey Boys (2009), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014), Hamilton (2015), The Boys in the Band (2018), and Gutenberg! The Musical! (2023). For his performance in the Off West End production of Tammy Faye, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award.
Wendell Edward Pierce is an American actor and businessman. Having trained at Juilliard School, Pierce rose to prominence as a character actor portraying roles on both stage and screen. He first gained recognition portraying the role of Detective Bunk Moreland in the acclaimed HBO drama series The Wire from 2002 to 2008.
Jonathan Drew Groff is an American actor and singer. He began his career on Broadway, rising to prominence for his portrayal of Melchior Gabor in the original production of Spring Awakening (2006–08), for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. He returned to Broadway to portray King George III in the original production of Hamilton (2015), for which he earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He currently stars opposite Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez in the first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along.
James Joseph Parsons is an American actor and producer. From 2007 to 2019, he played Sheldon Cooper in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. He has received various awards, including four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy. In 2018, Forbes estimated his annual salary to be $26.5 million and named him the world's highest-paid television actor.
Brian Tyree Henry is an American actor. He rose to prominence for his role as rapper Alfred "Paper Boi" Miles in the FX comedy-drama series Atlanta (2016–2022), for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.