John Goodman

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John Goodman
Image:John Goodman 1990.jpg John Goodman on the red carpet at the 62nd Annual Academy Awards, March 26, 1990. Photo by Alan Light <tr><td style="text-align:left;">Birth name</td><td>John Stephen Goodman</td></tr>
Born	June 20 1952 (age 57) Image:Flag of USA.svg Affton, Missouri, USA
Height	6' 2" (1.88 m)
Notable roles	Dan Conner from Roseanne (1988—1997) Delbert McClintock from Arachnophobia (1990) King Ralph from King Ralph (1991) Fred Flintstone from The Flintstones (1994) "Mighty" Mack Blues from Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski (1998) *James P. "Sulley"* Sullivan** voice from Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Spouse(s)	Annabeth Hartzog Since 1989

John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952 in Affton, Missouri) is a male Golden Globe award winner and an Emmy award nominated American actor.

1 Biography
2 Trivia
3 Filmography
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Goodman went to Affton High School. He won an athletics scholarship to play football at Missouri State University as a teenager, but subsequently decided to become an actor, leaving Missouri for New York in 1975. He then appeared on stage off-Broadway, in dinner theatres and on TV advertisements before playing character parts in movies in the early 1980s.

Goodman is best known for comic roles, including Roseanne Barr's husband in the TV sitcom Roseanne, the voice of Sulley in Monsters, Inc., and Fred Flintstone in the movie The Flintstones. He has appeared in many roles in movies by The Coen Brothers. Goodman is frequently cast as blue-collar characters and/or as the main character's sidekick, for example in Sea of Love, as Al Pacino's police partner; in The Big Lebowski, as Walter Sobchak, Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski's best friend; and in Fallen, as police partner to Denzel Washington. Standing 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) and weighing nearly 400 lb (180 kg), Goodman had to lose weight in order to play Babe Ruth in the 1992 movie The Babe.

In 2000, Goodman had his own short-lived sitcom called Normal, Ohio, in which he played a gay man who returns to his small hometown to start a new life. Viewers did not respond well and critics panned the show. In 2004, he starred alongside Jean Smart in the CBS sitcom Center of the Universe; it, too, was critically panned and quickly cancelled.

John Goodman has a long history of appearances on latenight comedy shows, being the first guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and recieving the "First Guest Medal". (Goodman promised he would pawn off the medal for a bottle of cheap scotch.) The actor has also been one of the most popular guest hosts on NBC's Saturday Night Live, having hosted the show twelve times (he had auditioned to be a castmember for Jean Doumanian's 1980-1981 season, but was rejected).

Goodman also had a recurring role on Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing, as fictional former House Speaker Glen Allen Walken, briefly serving 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. He also played someone who unexpectedly became a head of state in the film King Ralph, after the ruling family of the United Kingdom dies in a freak electrical accident.

Goodman replaced John Belushi (Jake Blues) as Dan Aykroyd's partner in the latter's popular Blues Brothers Band. He first appeared as "Mighty" Mack Blues on Saturday Night Live on March 25, 1995 and went on to star in the film Blues Brothers 2000. He continued to perform alongside Aykroyd (Elwood Blues) and Jim Belushi (Zee Blues) through 2001. Soon after that, health problems forced him to shelve the character.

Goodman has been married to Courtney Sabine since 1989, and together they live in New Orleans. They share one child, daughter Sherman Marshall (born August 31, 1990). With his friend Kevin O'Leary, Goodman co-owns a St. Louis bar and grill named O'Leary's. The bar features memorabilia of the actor.

When he is not working, Goodman often participates in Mardi Gras.

[edit] Trivia

• Goodman lent his voice to numerous Dunkin Donuts television ads in 2006

[edit] Filmography

Madagascar 2 (2008) (voice) as Boom the Rhino
Kung Fu Panda (2008) (voice) as Japaness Fu Chicken
Bee Movie (2007) (voice) as Montgomery
Evan Almighty (2007) as Congressman Long
The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006) (TV) as Santa Claus
Drunkboat (2006) as Mr. Fletcher
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)
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 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
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

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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
The Flintstones (1995) as Fred Flintstone
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995) (TV) as Huey Long
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 George Herman '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