JOHN GOODMAN

'John Stephen Goodman' (born June 20, 1952) is a Golden Globe and Emmy-winning American actor, perhaps best known for his roles on the television series ''Roseanne'', and in several Hollywood films.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Louisiana connection

Filmography

References

External links

Biography

Early life

Goodman was born in Affton, Missouri, to Virginia, a store clerk and waitress who worked at Jack and Phil's Bar-B-Cue, and Leslie Goodman, a postal worker^[1] who died from heart attack in 1954.^[2][3][4] He has a sister, Elisabeth, and a brother, Leslie. Goodman went to Affton High School and won a football scholarship at Southwest Missouri State University, now called Missouri State University. He pledged the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, but was not formally initiated until several decades later. During his college stint, he decided to become an actor, leaving Missouri for New York in 1975. He performed off-Broadway, in dinner theatres and in television commercials before getting character roles in movies during the early 1980s. One of his earliest roles was Pap Finn in the Broadway musical ''Big River'', and he can be heard on the original cast album.

Career

Goodman is most famous for his role as Dan Conner on the American sitcom, ''Roseanne'', which aired on ABC from 1988 to 1997. He has a long history of appearances on late night comedy shows, being the first guest on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'', receiving the show's "First Guest Medal". (Goodman joked that he would pawn the medal for a bottle of cheap scotch). The actor has been a popular guest host on NBC's ''Saturday Night Live'', having hosted the show twelve times. (In an interesting sidenote, Goodman once auditioned to be a castmember for Jean Doumanian's 1980-1981 tumultuous SNL season, but was rejected).
Goodman had a recurring role on ''The West Wing'' as fictional House Speaker Glen Allen Walken. In the show, he briefly served as Acting President when President of the United States Josiah Bartlet yielded power temporarily under the terms of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution. He recently played a judge on Sorkin's newest show, ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'', earning a 2007 Emmy nomination for his work on the show.
Goodman also played an innocent goodtimer who unexpectedly becomes the official head of state in the film ''King Ralph'', after the royal family dies in a freak electrical accident.
Goodman is noted for his work in numerous films by Joel and Ethan Coen, including ''Raising Arizona'', ''Barton Fink'', ''The Big Lebowski'', and ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?''.
Goodman replaced John Belushi as Dan Aykroyd's partner in the popular Blues Brothers Band, in which he first appeared as "Mighty" Mack McTeer on ''Saturday Night Live'' on March 25, 1995 and co-starred in the film ''Blues Brothers 2000''. He continued to perform with Aykroyd (Elwood Blues) and Jim Belushi (Zee Blues) through 2001. Health problems eventually forced Goodman to retire the character.
He voiced Robot Santa in the character's first appearance on ''Futurama''. Beginning in 2007, Goodman has been the voiceover in Dunkin' Donuts commercials.^[5]

Louisiana connection

Since Hurricane Katrina, Goodman has appeared on several recovery commercials aired in Louisiana. In the commercials, he has implied that Louisiana is his home. Additionally Goodman was at one time slated to play the role of Ignatius Reily, the main character of a Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole. The story takes place almost entirely in New Orleans. However, the movie was never put into production and was scrapped.

Filmography

★ ''Bunyan & Babe'' (2008) (voice) as Paul Bunyan

★ ''Madagascar 2'' (2008) (voice) as Boom the Rhino

★ ''Kung Fu Panda'' (2008) (voice) as Japanese Fu Chicken

★ ''Speed Racer'' (2008) as Pops

★ ''Death Sentence'' (2007) as Bones Darly

★ ''Bee Movie'' (2007) (voice) as Montgomery

★ ''Evan Almighty'' (2007) as Congressman Long

★ ''Fred's Odyssey'' (2007) as Fred Flintstone

★ ''The Year Without a Santa Claus'' (2006) (TV) as Santa Claus

★ ''Drunkboat'' (2006) as Mr. Fletcher

★ ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'' (2006) as Judge Robert Bebe (2 episodes)

★ ''Cars'' (2006) as Monster Truck Sulley'' (cameo - voice)''

★ ''Kronk's New Groove'' (2005) (voice) as Pacha

★ ''Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School'' (2005)

★ ''Futurama'' (voice) as the Evil Robot Santa Claus

★ ''Center of the Universe'' (2004) TV Series

★ ''Beyond the Sea'' (2004)

★ ''Family Guy'' (voice/spoof character) as John Goodman

★ ''Clifford's Really Big Movie'' (2004) (voice) as George Wolfsbottom

★ ''Home of Phobia'' (2004) as Rodney

★ ''Father of the Pride'' (2004) TV Series (voice) as Larry the Lion

★ "The West Wing" (2003-2004) TV Series, Speaker of the House, Acting President, Former President Glen Allen Walken

★ ''The Jungle Book 2'' (2003) (voice) as Baloo

★ ''Masked and Anonymous'' (2003) as Uncle Sweetheart

★ ''Dirty Deeds'' (2002) as Tony

★ ''Mike's New Car'' (2002) (V) (voice) as Sulley

★ ''Monsters, Inc.'' (2001) (voice) as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan

★ ''On the Edge'' (2001/II) (TV) as The Dean (segment "Happy Birthday")

★ ''Storytelling'' (2001) as Marty Livingston ('Non-fiction')

★ ''One Night at McCool's'' (2001) as Detective Dehling

★ ''My First Mister'' (2001) as Benjamin Wilson

★ ''Happy Birthday'' (2000/I) as The Dean

★ ''The Emperor's New Groove'' (2000) (voice) as Pacha

★ ''Saturday Night Live: Best of the Clinton Scandal'' (2000) (TV) as Linda Tripp

★ ''Normal, Ohio'' (2000) TV Series as William 'Butch' Gamble/Rex Gamble (original pilot)

★ ''Pigs Next Door'' (2000) TV Series (voice)

★ ''Coyote Ugly'' (2000) as Bill Sanford

★ ''The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle'' (2000) as Oklahoma Cop

★ ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' (2000) as Big Dan Teague

★ ''What Planet Are You From?'' (2000) as Roland Jones

★ ''The Runner'' (1999) as Deepthroat

★ ''Bringing Out the Dead'' (1999) as Larry Verber


★ ''Now and Again'' (1999) TV Series playing the original Michael Wiseman in two episodes.

★ ''The Jack Bull'' (1999) (TV) as Judge Tolliver

★ ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie'' (1998) (V) (voice) as Santa Claus

★ ''The Real Macaw'' (1998) (voice) as Voice of Mac

★ ''Dirty Work'' (1998) (uncredited) as Adrian Riggins the Mayor

★ ''The Big Lebowski'' (1998) as Walter Sobchak

★ ''Blues Brothers 2000'' (1998) as Mighty Mack McTeer

★ ''Fallen'' (1998) as Jonesy

★ ''The Borrowers'' (1997) as Ocious P. Potter

★ ''Pyst'' (1996) (VG) as King Mattruss

★ ''Mother Night'' (1996) as Maj. Frank Wirtanen

★ ''Pie in the Sky'' (1996) as Alan Davenport

★ ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' (1995) (TV) as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell

★ ''Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long'' (1995) (TV) as Huey Long

★ ''The Flintstones'' (1994) as Fred Flintstone

★ ''The Hudsucker Proxy'' (1994) (as Karl Mundt) as Rockwell Newsreel Announcer

★ ''We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story'' (1993) (voice) as Rex

★ ''Born Yesterday'' (1993) as Harry Brock

★ ''Matinee'' (1993) as Lawrence Woolsey

★ ''Frosty Returns'' (1992) (TV) (voice) as Frosty the Snowman

★ ''The Babe'' (1992) as Babe Ruth

★ ''Barton Fink'' (1991) as Charlie Meadows

★ ''King Ralph'' (1991) as Ralph Jones

★ ''Arachnophobia'' (1990) as Delbert McClintock

★ ''Stella'' (1990) as Ed Munn

★ ''Always'' (1989) as Al Yackey

★ ''Sea of Love'' (1989) as Det. Sherman

★ ''Everybody's All-American'' (1988) as Lawrence

★ ''Roseanne'' (1988 - 1997) TV Series as Daniel 'Dan' Conner

★ ''Punchline'' (1988) as John Krytsick


★ ''The Wrong Guys'' (1988) as Duke Earle

★ ''Murder Ordained'' (1987) (TV) as Hugh Rayburn

★ ''The Big Easy'' (1987) as Det. Andre DeSoto

★ ''Burglar'' (1987) as Detective Nyswander

★ ''Raising Arizona'' (1987) as Gale

★ ''True Stories'' (1986) as Louis Fyne

★ ''Sweet Dreams'' (1985) as Otis

★ ''Maria's Lovers'' (1984) as Frank

★ ''C.H.U.D.'' (1984) as Cop in Diner

★ ''Revenge of the Nerds'' (1984) as Coach Harris

★ ''Heart of Steel'' (1983) (TV) as Raymond Bohupinsky

★ ''Chiefs'' (1983) (mini) TV Series as Newt 'Tub' Murray

★ ''Eddie Macon's Run'' (1983) as Hebert

★ ''The Survivors'' (1983) as Commando

★ ''The Face of Rage'' (1983) (TV) as Fred

★ ''Jailbait Babysitter'' (1978)

References

1. http://www.fansofjohngoodman.com/bio.html
2. http://www.filmreference.com/film/25/John-Goodman.html
3. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800016364/bio
4. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/celeb/goodman.htm
5. Yumsugar.com

External links

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★ St. Louis Walk of Fame

★ EG Blues Brothers, featuring screen caps from John's films