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John Goodman

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John Goodman

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Also known as John Stephen Goodman, Jonathan Stephen Goodman, Jonathan Goodman

American actor

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John Goodman is a male person from the United States who began his work period in 1975. He is recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. His professional roles include bandleader, big band, clarinetist, classical, and composer. He has one child.

He is associated with several musical genres and tags, including blues, Soundtrack, Disney, and pixar. Similar artists include Sharon Riley, The Louisiana Gator Boys, The Carl Lafong Trio, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, and Bruce Reitherman. On Last.fm, he has 13,684 listeners and a playcount of 56,021.

Open Library lists him as an author with 81 works. Top works include "Successful case of Caesarean operation, and its complete recovery," "A history of artistic practice and the monarchy's crisis of representation at the end of the old regime," "The menstrual cycle," "Menstruation and the law of monthly periodicity," and "Circular letter." Crossref lists five works. He is referenced by 1,143 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
John
Family name
Goodman
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Affton
Occupation
television producer
Political party
Democratic Party (United States)
Languages spoken
English language
Award
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Notable work
The Flintstones
Instrument
voice
Image
John Goodman 2014.jpg
Number of children
1
Residence
New Orleans
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birth name
John Stephen Goodman
Commons category
John Goodman
date of birth
1952-06-20
Commons gallery
John Goodman
start of work period
1975-00-00
member of
Screen Actors Guild
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Encyclopedic overview

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, acting in films such as Raising Arizona (1987), Barton Fink (1991), The Big Lebowski (1998), 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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