
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".
Goodman is known for his collaborations with the Coen brothers, appearing in films such as Raising Arizona (1987), Barton Fink (1991), The Big Lebowski (1998), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). He took leading roles in King Ralph (1991), The Babe (1992), Matinee (1993), The Flintstones (1994), and 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) as well as supporting roles in Revenge of the Nerds (1984), True Stories (1986), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Evan Almighty (2007), Speed Racer (2008), The Artist (2011), Flight (2012), Argo (2012), and Atomic Blonde (2017). He voiced roles in The Emperor's New Groove franchise (2000–2008), the Monsters, Inc. franchise (2001–present), Bee Movie (2007) and Smurfs (2025).
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as President Compson

as Blake Jr.

as Sulley (Voice)
as Doodle (voice)
as Papa Smurf (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Bill Randa · 1 episode
as Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice) · 22 episodes
as Eli Gemstone · 36 episodes
as William Mulligan
as Louis Fyne
as Dan Conner · 112 episodes
as Michael Ennis · 8 episodes
as Emmett Kurzfeld
as Igon Siruss (voice)
as Hound (voice)
as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)

as Capt. Edwin Simmons
as Mr. Wellington
as Pope Sergius II.
as Vice Dean Laybourne · 6 episodes
as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
as Graham Bloomwood

as Mortimer J Hamm
as Larry Verber
as Michael Wiseman · 1 episode
as Glenallen Walken · 4 episodes

as Deepthroat
as Santa Claus (voice) · 1 episode
as Judge Tolliver
as Robot Santa Claus (voice) · 1 episode
as Santa Claus (voice)
as Al Yackey
as Meathook (voice) · 1 episode
as Sherman
as Lawrence
as Dan Conner · 231 episodes
as John Krytsick
as Duke Earle

as Cowboy singer ("Wild Wild Life")
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