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John Stephen Goodman is an American film, television, and stage actor. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he is best known for his role as Dan Conner on the television series Roseanne (1988-1997), for which he won a Best Actor Golden Globe award in 1993. Goodman is also noted for appearances in the films of the Coen brothers, with prominent roles in Raising Arizona as an escaped convict, in Barton Fink (1991), as a congenial murderer, in The Big Lebowski, as a volatile bowler and in O Brother Where Art Thou?, as a cultured thief. Additionally, Goodman's voice work has appeared in numerous Disney films, including the voice for "Sulley" in Monsters, Inc. Having contributed to more than 50 films, Goodman has also won two American Comedy Awards and hosted Saturday Night Live fourteen times.
Filmography
2013 The Monuments Men (filming)
2013 Alpha House (TV movie) (filming)
2013 Monsters University (post-production)
James P. Sullivan/'Sulley' (voice)
2013 The Internship (post-production)
2013 The Hangover Part III (post-production)
2013 Inside Llewyn Davis (completed)
2009 Girls Gone Gangsta (released)
Mortimer J Hamm
2013 Dancing on the Edge (TV series)
Masterson
2013 A Love Saga with John Goodman (short)
2013 Spring Break '83
Dick Bender
2012 It's a SpongeBob Christmas! (TV movie)
Santa Claus
2012/I Flight
Harling Mays
2012 Trouble with the Curve
Pete Klein
2012 Argo
John Chambers
2012 ParaNorman
Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
2012 KFC Loves Gays (short)
Colonel Sanders
2011-2012 Community (TV series)
Vice Dean Laybourne
2012 Downwardly Mobile (TV movie)
Buzz
2011 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Stan the Doorman
2011 Happy Feet Two
The Beach Master (voice)
2011 Rage (Video Game)
Dan Hagar (voice)
2011 Damages (TV series)
Howard T. Erickson / Howard T. Erikerson
2010-2011 Treme (TV series)
Creighton Bernette
2011/I The Artist
Al Zimmer
2011 Red State
Joseph Keenan
2010 Drunkboat
Mr. Fletcher
2010 You Don't Know Jack (TV movie)
Neal Nicol
2009 The Princess and the Frog
'Big Daddy' La Bouff (voice)
2009 Beyond All Boundaries (short)
Capt. Edwin Simmons (voice)
2009 Pope Joan
Pope Sergius
2009 Cars Race-O-Rama (Video Game)
Sullivan Truck (voice)
2009 Alabama Moon
Mr. Wellington
2009 In the Electric Mist
Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
2009 Confessions of a Shopaholic
Graham Bloomwood
2009 The Station (TV movie)
Ted Gannon
2007-2008 The Emperor's New School (TV series)
Pascha
2008 Gigantic
Al Lolly
2008 Speed Racer
Pops
2007 Cars Mater-National (Video Game)
Sullivan Truck (voice)
2007 Bee Movie Game (Video Game)
Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
2007 Bee Movie
Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
2007 Death Sentence
Bones Darley
2007 Evan Almighty
Congressman Long
2007 King of the Hill (TV series)
Tommy
2006 The Year Without a Santa Claus (TV movie)
Santa Claus
2006 Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (TV series)
Judge Robert Bebe
2006 Odd Job Jack (TV series)
Garbage Czar
2006 Cars
Sullivan Truck (voice)
2005 The Emperor's New Groove 2: Kronk's New Groove (video)
Pacha (voice)
2004-2005 Father of the Pride (TV series)
Larry
2004-2005 Center of the Universe (TV series)
John Barnett
2005 Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Steve Mills
2004 Beyond the Sea
Steve Blauner
2004 Clifford's Really Big Movie
George Wolfsbottom (voice)
2004 Freshman Orientation
Rodney
2003-2004 The West Wing (TV series)
Acting President Glenallen Walken / Glenallen Walken / Speaker of the House Glenallen Walken
2003 The Jungle Book 2
Baloo (voice)
2003 Masked and Anonymous
Uncle Sweetheart
2003 Freedom: A History of Us (TV series documentary)
Benjamin Harrison / William 'Big Bill' Haywood
2002 Dirty Deeds
Tony Testano
2002 Mike's New Car (video short)
Sulley (voice)
2001 Monsters, Inc.
James P. "Sulley" Sullivan (voice)
2001/I Happy Birthday
The Dean
2001 Storytelling
Marty Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction")
2001 One Night at McCool's
Detective Dehling
2001 Ed (TV series)
Big Rudy
2001 My First Mister
Benjamin
2000 Normal, Ohio (TV series)
Rex Gamble / William 'Butch' Gamble
2000 The Emperor's New Groove
Pacha (voice)
2000 Pigs Next Door (TV series) (voice)
2000 Coyote Ugly
Bill
2000 The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
Oklahoma Cop
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Big Dan Teague
2000 What Planet Are You From?
Roland Jones
1999-2000 Now and Again (TV series)
Michael Wiseman / Original Michael Wiseman
1999 Futurama (TV series)
Robot Santa Claus
1999 The Simpsons (TV series)
Meathook
1999 Bringing Out the Dead
Larry
1999 The Runner
Deepthroat
1998-1999 Saturday Night Live (TV series)
Linda Tripp / Host / Nathan Barnett / …
1999 The Jack Bull (TV movie)
Judge Tolliver
1999 Saturday Night Live: Best of the Clinton Scandal (TV movie)
Linda Tripp
1998 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Santa Claus (voice)
1998 The Real Macaw
Mac (voice)
1998 Dirty Work
Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
1998 The Big Lebowski
Walter Sobchak
1997-1998 Soul Man (TV series)
Capt. Stan Hamel
1998 Blues Brothers 2000
Mighty Mack McTeer
1998 Fallen
Jonesy
1997 The Borrowers
Ocious P. Potter
1988-1997 Roseanne (TV series)
Dan Conner / Adult D.J. / Donald 'Don' Hollinger / …
1996 Mother Night
Major Frank Wirtanen
1996 Pie in the Sky
Alan Davenport
1996 Pyst (Video Game)
King Mattruss
1995 A Streetcar Named Desire (TV movie)
Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
1995 Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (TV movie)
Huey P. Long, Jr.
1994 The Flintstones
Fred Flintstone
1994 All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! (TV movie)
Tough Guy Helpline operator
1994 The Hudsucker Proxy
Newsreel Announcer (as Karl Mundt)
1993 We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Rex (voice)
1993 Grace Under Fire (TV series)
Police Officer
1993 Born Yesterday
Harry Brock
1993 Matinee
Lawrence Woolsey
1992 The Jackie Thomas Show (TV series)
Dan Connor
– The Joke (1992) … Dan Connor
1992 Frosty Returns (TV short)
Frosty the Snowman (voice)
1992 The Babe
George Herman 'Babe' Ruth
1991 Barton Fink
Charlie Meadows
1991 King Ralph
Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones
1990 Grand (TV series)
Red
– The Healing (1990) … Red
1990 Arachnophobia
Delbert McClintock
1990 Stella
Ed Munn
1989 Always
Al Yackey
1989 Sea of Love
Det. Sherman
1989 The Making of 'Sea of Love' (short)
Det. Sherman
1988 Everybody's All-American
Lawrence
1988 Punchline
John Krytsick
1988 The Wrong Guys
Duke Earle
1987 Moonlighting (TV series)
Donald Chase
1987 The Equalizer (TV series)
Harold Winter
1987 Murder Ordained (TV movie)
Hugh Rayburn
1987 Burglar
Detective Nyswander
1987 Raising Arizona
Gale Snoats
1986 The Big Easy
Det. Andre DeSoto
1986 True Stories
Louis Fyne
1985 Sweet Dreams
Otis
1984 Maria's Lovers
Frank
1984 C.H.U.D.
Cop in Diner
1984 Revenge of the Nerds
Coach Harris
1983 Heart of Steel (TV movie)
Raymond Bohupinsky
1983 Chiefs (TV mini-series)
Newt 'Tub' Murray
– Part 3 (1983) … Newt 'Tub' Murray
1983 The Survivors
Commando
1983 Eddie Macon's Run
Hebert
1983 The Face of Rage (TV movie)
Fred
1977 Jailbait Babysitter