John Goodman

1952 (74) • Acting

Born: 6/20/1952 (74) in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Known for: Acting

John Goodman

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".

Known For

Monsters, Inc.

79%

Sullivan (voice)

2001

The Big Lebowski

78%

Walter Sobchak

1998

Monsters University

71%

Sullivan (voice)

2013

Kong: Skull Island

66%

Bill Randa

2017

The Simpsons

80%

Meathook (voice)

1989

The Hangover Part III

62%

Marshall

2013

Argo

73%

John Chambers

2012

10 Cloverfield Lane

70%

Howard

2016

Skeletons

2027

Digger

President Compson

2026

Chili Finger

Blake Jr.

2026

Chili Finger

Executive Producer

2026

Monsters Funday Football

Sulley (Voice)

2025

A Holiday Short: Best Christmas Ever

61%

Doodle (voice)

2025

Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special

Self (archive footage)

2025

Smurfs

57%

Papa Smurf (voice)

2025

Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter

29%

Self

2023

Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain

62%

Narrator (voice)

2023

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

77%

Bill Randa / Bill Randa (archive footage)

2023

The Freak Brothers

55%

Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice)

2021

Monsters at Work

72%

Sulley (voice)

2021

Easy Does It

33%

"Catfish" Crawford (voice)

2020

The Righteous Gemstones

75%

Eli Gemstone

2019

Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh

72%

Self

2019

Biography: Comedy Icons

Self

2019

Captive State

57%

William Mulligan

2019

Real Life

Louis Fyne

2018

The Conners

70%

Dan Conner

2018

Black Earth Rising

65%

Michael Ennis

2018

Atomic Blonde

64%

Emmett Kurzfeld

2017

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

67%

Igon Siruss (voice)

2017

Transformers: The Last Knight

61%

Hound (voice)

2017

Once Upon a Time in Venice

52%

Dave Phillips

2017

Kong: Skull Island

66%

Bill Randa

2017

Bunyan and Babe

57%

Paul Bunyan (voice)

2017

New Orleans: The First 300 Years

Narrator

2017