John Goodman

ActorProducer Jun 20 (age 73) Saint Louis, Missouri, USA 1953–2026 (73 year career)

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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 (199…

Known For

Film

Monsters, Inc.

Sullivan (voice)

Film

The Big Lebowski

Walter Sobchak

Film

The Emperor's New Groove

Pacha (voice)

Film

Cars

Sullivan Truck (voice)

Film

Argo

John Chambers

Film

Monsters University

Sullivan (voice)

Film

10 Cloverfield Lane

Howard

Film

The Princess and the Frog

"Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)

Filmography

Acting (209)

Movies (154)

Digger

2026 Upcoming

Sep 30

Chili Finger

2026 Upcoming

Dec 3

Smurfs

2025

as Papa Smurf (voice)

5.8

Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special

2025

as Self (archive footage)

A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever

2025

as Doodle (voice)

6.2

Monsters Funday Football

2025

as Sulley (Voice)

Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain

2023

as Narrator (voice)

6.1

Easy Does It

2020

as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)

3.3

Captive State

2019

as William Mulligan

5.6

Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh

2019

as Self

7.3

Real Life

2018

as Louis Fyne

Kong: Skull Island

2017

as Bill Randa

6.6

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

2017

as Igon Siruss (voice)

6.6

Transformers: The Last Knight

as Hound (voice)

Atomic Blonde

as Emmett Kurzfeld

New Orleans: The First 300 Years

2017

as Narrator

Once Upon a Time in Venice

2017

as Dave Phillips

5.2

Bunyan and Babe

2017

as Paul Bunyan (voice)

5.6

Patriots Day

2016

as Commisioner Ed Davis

10 Cloverfield Lane

as Howard

Ratchet & Clank

as Grimroth (voice)

Trumbo

as Frank King

Live from New York!

as Self

Love the Coopers

as Sam Cooper

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead

2015

as Self - Actor

6.6

Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle

2015

as Hal Houston (voice)

7.0

Transformers: Age of Extinction

as Hound (voice)

The Gambler

as Frank

The Monuments Men

as Sgt. Walter Garfield

6.1

Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

as Self

Party Central

as Sullivan (voice)

Evolution Within Extinction

as Self

All-Stars

as Himself

Monsters University

as Sullivan (voice)

The Hangover Part III

as Marshall

Milius

as Self

Inside Llewyn Davis

as Roland Turner

The Book of Manning

as Narrator

The Internship

as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)

6.2

Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective

2013

as Self

Argo

2012

as John Chambers

7.3

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)

Flight

as Harling Mays

ParaNorman

as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)

7.0

The Campaign

2012

as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)

5.8

Trouble with the Curve

as Pete Klein

Drunkboat

as Mr. Fletcher

It's a SpongeBob Christmas!

2012

as Santa Claus

7.0

All Star Bowling Trick Shots

2012

The Artist: The Making of an American Romance

as Self

The Artist

as Al Zimmer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2011

as Stan the Doorman

7.0

Ole War Skule: The Story of Saturday Night

as Narrator

Red State

as Joseph Keenan

You Don't Know Jack

as Neal Nicol

The Princess and the Frog

2009

as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)

7.2

Alabama Moon

2009

as Mr. Wellington

6.4

Confessions of a Shopaholic

as Graham Bloomwood

Pope Joan

as Pope Sergius II.

In the Electric Mist

as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni

6.1

Girls Gone Gangsta

2009

as Mortimer J Hamm

2.8

Beyond All Boundaries

2009

as Capt. Edwin Simmons

6.8

Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans

as Narrator (voice)

Speed Racer

as Pops Racer

Gigantic

as Happy's Father

Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family

2008

as Pops Racer

Speed Racer: Car Fu

2008

as Self

Bee Movie

2007

as Layton T. Montgomery (voice)

Evan Almighty

as Congressman Long

Death Sentence

as Bones Darley

The Pixar Story

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

7.6

Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation

2007

as Self

Cars

2006

as Sullivan Truck (voice)

7.0

The Year Without a Santa Claus

2006

as Santa Claus

5.8

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

2006

as Steve Mills

5.9

Tales of the Rat Fink

as Ed Roth (voice)

Kronk's New Groove

as Pacha (voice)

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

as Self - Presenter

Beyond the Sea

as Steve Blauner

Clifford's Really Big Movie

2004

as George Wolfsbottom (voice)

Freshman Orientation

as Rodney

The Jungle Book 2

as Baloo (voice)

Masked and Anonymous

as Uncle Sweetheart

Overnight

as Self

Mike's New Car

as Sulley (voice)

Dirty Deeds

as Tony

The Sweatbox

as Self

Monsters, Inc.

as Sullivan (voice)

When Dinosaurs Roamed America

2001

as Narrator

6.6

The Firesign Theatre: Weirdly Cool

2001

as Self

One Night at McCool's

2001

as Detective Dehling

5.8

On the Edge

2001

as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")

Storytelling

as Marty Livingston

My First Mister

as Benjamin

The Emperor's New Groove

2000

as Pacha (voice)

7.6

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

as Big Dan Teague

Coyote Ugly

as Bill

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

2000

as Oklahoma Cop

4.3

What Planet Are You From?

2000

as Roland Jones

5.4

Bringing Out the Dead

as Larry Verber

The Jack Bull

as Judge Tolliver

The Runner

as Deepthroat

Discovering Bedrock

as Self

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

1999

as Self

6.8

Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood

as Himself

The Big Lebowski

as Walter Sobchak

Fallen

as Jonesy

Blues Brothers 2000

as Mighty Mack McTeer

The Real Macaw

as Mac (voice)

Dirty Work

as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)

6.2

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie

1998

as Santa Claus (voice)

6.1

The Making of 'The Big Lebowski'

as Self

The Borrowers

as Ocious P. Potter

Mother Night

as Major Frank Wirtanen

6.6

Pie in the Sky

1996

as Alan Davenport

6.6

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

1995

as Self

7.8

A Streetcar Named Desire

1995

as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell

7.1

Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long

as Huey P. Long, Jr.

The Flintstones

as Fred Flintstone

The Hudsucker Proxy

as Newsreel Announcer (voice)

7.1

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

1994

as Tough Guy Helpline Operator

7.0

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

as Rex (voice)

Born Yesterday

as Harry Brock

Matinee

as Lawrence Woolsey

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

1993

as Self (segment "New Way to Walk")

6.0

Frosty Returns

1993

as Frosty the Snowman (voice)

The Babe

as Babe Ruth

Barton Fink

as Charlie Meadows

King Ralph

as Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones

5.4

Arachnophobia

1990

as Delbert McClintock

6.4

Stella

1990

as Ed Munn

5.7

Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash

as Self - Host

Always

as Al Yackey

Sea of Love

as Sherman

Everybody's All-American

as Lawrence

Punchline

as John Krytsick

The Wrong Guys

as Duke Earle

Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant

1988

as Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")

Raising Arizona

as Gale

Burglar

as Detective Nyswander

Murder Ordained

as Hugh Rayburn

The Big Easy

as Andre DeSoto

True Stories

as Louis Fyne

Sweet Dreams

as Otis

Revenge of the Nerds

as Coach Harris

C.H.U.D.

as Cop in Diner

Maria's Lovers

as Frank

The Survivors

as Commando

Heart of Steel

as Raymond Bohupinsky

Eddie Macon's Run

as Mr. Hebert

The Face of Rage

as Fred

The Mystery of the Morro Castle

1980

as Telegraph Operator

The Robber Bridegroom

1980

as Townsperson

Monsters, Inc. 3

as Sullivan (voice)

Television (55)

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

2023

as Bill Randa

7.7

Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter

as Self

Monsters at Work

as Sulley (voice)

The Freak Brothers

as Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice)

5.6

The Righteous Gemstones

2019

as Eli Gemstone

7.4

Biography: Comedy Icons

2019

as Self

The Conners

as Dan Conner

Black Earth Rising

as Michael Ennis

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

as Self - Guest

5.2

Off Camera with Sam Jones

2014

as Self

4.0

Alpha House

2013

as Senator Gil John Biggs

Dancing on the Edge

as Masterson

Treme

as Creighton Bernette

Treme

Best Food Ever

as Narrator

Community

as Vice Dean Laybourne

8.0

Damages

2007

as Howard Erickson

7.4

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

2007

as Self (archive footage)

3.0

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

2006

as Judge Robert Bebe

7.4

The Emperor's New School

2006

as Pacha (voice)

7.3

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

as Self

Father of the Pride

as Larry (voice)

Center of the Universe

2004

as John Barnett

7.0

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

as Self

as Big Rudy

Pigs Next Door

as Phil (voice)

Normal, Ohio

as William "Butch" Gamble

The West Wing

as Glenallen Walken

Futurama

as Robot Santa Claus (voice)

8.4

SpongeBob SquarePants

1999

as Santa Claus (voice)

Now and Again

as Michael Wiseman

King of the Hill

as Tommy (voice)

Soul Man

as Capt. Stan Hamel

Ruby Wax Meets

Muppets Tonight

as Self

Saturday Night Special

1996

5.0

Inside the Actors Studio

1994

as Self

7.5

Downwardly Mobile

1994

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

Grace Under Fire

as Police Officer

The Jackie Thomas Show

1992

as Dan Conner

Grand

as Red

American Chronicles

as self

The Simpsons

as Meathook (voice)

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

as Self - Guest

Roseanne

as Dan Conner

Murder Ordained

as Hugh Rayburn

The Equalizer

as Harold Winter

Moonlighting

as Donald Chase

Chiefs

as Newt 'Tub' Murray

Saturday Night Live

as Self

CMA Awards

as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

The Oscars

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Winner

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Chili Finger

2026 Upcoming

Executive Producer

Dec 3