June 20: Happy Birthday John Goodman - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 06-21-2020, 01:24 AM

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John Goodman celebrates his 68th birthday today. Goodman grew up in the St. Louis area, and attended Southwest Missouri State University (now called simply Missouri State) on a football scholarship. He also became involved in the theater program there–he attended at about the same time as Kathleen Turner.

In the mid-1970s, Goodman moved to New York to pursue an acting career. He made his Broadway debut in 1985 as Pap Finn in the musical Big River, and was a Drama Desk Award nominee. Goodman also began working n feature films in the eighties. He appeared in supporting roles in films such as Revenge of the Nerds and The Big Easy.

The same year as the latter film (1987), Goodman also appeared in Raising Arizona, beginning a lengthy association with the Coen Brothers. He has gone on to appear in Barton Fink, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Inside Llewyn Davis, and as Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski.

Goodman has had occasional lead roles in film, such as the title character in The Babe from 1992, and Fred Flintstone in The Flintstones. However, he has been primarily a character performer, often appearing in as many as five films in a single year. His long filmography includes Sea of Love, Arachnophobia, Blues Brothers 2000, Argo, and 10 Cloverfield Lane.

Goodman also has an extensive television resume, and is an eleven-time Emmy nominee. Seven of those were as Dan Conner on Roseanne, a role that also brought him a Golden Globe. He also won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor for a 2007 appearance on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Goodman currently stars on ABC as Dan Conner on The Conners, and also on HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones.

In addition, Goodman has continued his stage career. He has appeared in several Shakespeare in the Park productions through the years, and returned to Broadway more than once–most recently in a 2016 revival of The Front Page. He made his West End debut in 2015, in a revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo.