John Goodman Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This John Goodman filmography covers 105 movie titles and 25 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

John Goodman movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Eddie Macon's Run (1983) as Mr. Hebert
• The Survivors (1983) as Commando
• C.H.U.D. (1984) as Cop in Diner
• Maria's Lovers (1984) as Frank
• Revenge of the Nerds (1984) as Coach Harris
• Sweet Dreams (1985) as Otis
• The Big Easy (1986) as Andre DeSoto
• True Stories (1986) as Louis Fyne
• Burglar (1987) as Detective Nyswander
• Raising Arizona (1987) as Gale
• Everybody's All-American (1988) as Lawrence
• Punchline (1988) as John Krytsick
• Always (1989) as Al Yackey
• Sea of Love (1989) as Sherman
• Arachnophobia (1990) as Delbert McClintock
• Stella (1990) as Ed Munn
• Barton Fink (1991) as Charlie Meadows
• King Ralph (1991) as Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones
• Frosty Returns (1992) as Frosty the Snowman (voice)
• The Babe (1992) as Babe Ruth
• Born Yesterday (1993) as Harry Brock
• Matinee (1993) as Lawrence Woolsey
• We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993) as Rex (voice)
• The Flintstones (1994) as Fred Flintstone
• The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) as Newsreel Announcer (voice)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1995) as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
• Mother Night (1996) as Major Frank Wirtanen
• The Borrowers (1997) as Ocious P. Potter
• Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) as Mighty Mack McTeer
• Dirty Work (1998) as Mayor Adrian Riggins (uncredited)
• Fallen (1998) as Jonesy
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998) as Santa Claus (voice)
• The Big Lebowski (1998) as Walter Sobchak
• Bringing Out the Dead (1999) as Larry Verber
• The Jack Bull (1999) as Judge Tolliver
• Coyote Ugly (2000) as Bill
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) as Big Dan Teague
• The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000) as Oklahoma Cop
• The Emperor's New Groove (2000) as Pacha (voice)
• What Planet Are You From? (2000) as Roland Jones
• Monsters, Inc. (2001) as Sullivan (voice)
• My First Mister (2001) as Benjamin
• One Night at McCool's (2001) as Detective Dehling
• Storytelling (2001) as Marty Livingston
• Dirty Deeds (2002) as Tony
• Mike's New Car (2002) as Sulley (voice)
• The Sweatbox (2002) as Self
• Masked and Anonymous (2003) as Uncle Sweetheart
• Overnight (2003) as Self
• The Jungle Book 2 (2003) as Baloo (voice)
• Beyond the Sea (2004) as Steve Blauner
• Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004) as George Wolfsbottom (voice)
• Freshman Orientation (2004) as Rodney
• Kronk's New Groove (2005) as Pacha (voice)
• Cars (2006) as Sullivan Truck (voice)
• Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2006) as Steve Mills
• Bee Movie (2007) as Layton T. Montgomery (voice)
• Death Sentence (2007) as Bones Darley
• Evan Almighty (2007) as Congressman Long
• The Pixar Story (2007) as James 'Sulley' Sullivan (voice) (archive footage)
• Gigantic (2008) as Happy's Father
• Speed Racer (2008) as Pops
• Alabama Moon (2009) as Mr. Wellington
• Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) as Graham Bloomwood
• In the Electric Mist (2009) as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
• Pope Joan (2009) as Pope Sergius II.
• The Princess and the Frog (2009) as "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
• You Don't Know Jack (2010) as Neal Nicol
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) as Stan the Doorman
• Red State (2011) as Joseph Keenan
• The Artist (2011) as Al Zimmer
• Argo (2012) as John Chambers
• Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) as (archive footage)
• Flight (2012) as Harling Mays
• It's a SpongeBob Christmas! (2012) as Santa Claus
• ParaNorman (2012) as Mr. Prenderghast (voice)
• The Campaign (2012) as Congressman Scott Talley (uncredited)
• Trouble with the Curve (2012) as Pete Klein
• Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) as Roland Turner
• Milius (2013) as Self
• Monsters University (2013) as Sullivan (voice)
• The Hangover Part III (2013) as Marshall
• The Internship (2013) as Sammy Boscoe (uncredited)
• All-Stars (2014) as Himself
• Party Central (2014) as Sullivan (voice)
• The Gambler (2014) as Frank
• The Monuments Men (2014) as Sgt. Walter Garfield
• Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) as Hound (voice)
• Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle (2015) as Hal Houston (voice)
• Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015) as Self - Actor
• Live from New York! (2015) as Self
• Love the Coopers (2015) as Sam Cooper
• Trumbo (2015) as Frank King
• 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) as Howard
• Patriots Day (2016) as Commisioner Ed Davis
• Ratchet & Clank (2016) as Grimroth (voice)
• Atomic Blonde (2017) as Emmett Kurzfeld
• Bunyan and Babe (2017) as Paul Bunyan (voice)
• Kong: Skull Island (2017) as Bill Randa
• Once Upon a Time in Venice (2017) as Dave Phillips
• Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) as Hound (voice)
• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) as Igon Siruss (voice)
• Captive State (2019) as William Mulligan
• Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain (2023) as Narrator (voice)
• Smurfs (2025) as Papa Smurf (voice)

John Goodman television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for John Goodman; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Alpha House as Senator Gil John Biggs
• Black Earth Rising as Michael Ennis
• Community as Vice Dean Laybourne
• Damages as Howard Erickson
• Dancing on the Edge as Masterson
• Ed as Big Rudy
• Futurama as Robot Santa Claus (voice)
• Grace Under Fire as Police Officer
• King of the Hill as Tommy (voice)
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters as Bill Randa; Bill Randa (archive footage)
• Monsters at Work as Sulley (voice)
• Moonlighting as Donald Chase
• Muppets Tonight as Self
• Now and Again as Michael Wiseman
• Roseanne as Dan Conner
• SpongeBob SquarePants as Santa Claus (voice)
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as Judge Robert Bebe
• The Conners as Dan Conner
• The Emperor's New School as Pacha (voice)
• The Equalizer as Harold Winter
• The Oscars as Self
• The Righteous Gemstones as Eli Gemstone
• The Simpsons as Meathook (voice)
• The West Wing as Glenallen Walken
• Treme as Creighton Bernette

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of John Goodman's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.