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John Goodman
John Goodman on the red carpet at the 62nd Annual Academy Awards, March 26, 1990.
BornJohn Stephen Goodman
Height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Spouse(s)Annabeth Hartzog
Since 1989

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

Biography

Education

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.

Acting career

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 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 late night comedy shows, being the first guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and receiving 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 cast member 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. 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. He also played someone who unexpectedly became a head of state in the film King Ralph, after the royal 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.

Starting in mid-2006, Goodman has lent his voice to ads for Dunkin' Donuts.

Personal life

Goodman has been married to Annabeth Hartzog since 1989, and together they live in New Orleans. They share one child, daughter Molly Evangeline (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. Goodman also is one of the investors of KTRS radio in St. Louis.

Filmography

John Goodman on the red carpet at the Emmys, September 11, 1994
John Goodman and Jerry Seinfeld at the 45th Emmy Awards Governor's Ball, September 19, 1993
  • 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)

External links

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