ACTOR

John Goodman

1952 - Today

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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 numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Goodman has received more than 18,526,052 page views. His biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 95 in 2019). John Goodman is the 440th most popular actor (down from 374th in 2019), the 795th most popular biography from United States (down from 715th in 2019) and the 218th most popular American Actor.

John Goodman is most famous for his role as Dan Conner in the TV show "Roseanne."

Memorability Metrics

  • 19M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 94

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, John Goodman ranks 440 out of 13,578. Before him are Emmanuelle Riva, David McCallum, Mark Hamill, Françoise Dorléac, Gian Maria Volonté, and Jane Seymour. After him are Paul Hogan, Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Pat Morita, Renée Zellweger, and Bill Nighy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, John Goodman ranks 36. Before him are Gary Moore, Douglas Adams, Neil Peart, Bronisław Komorowski, Tomislav Nikolić, and Lee Hsien Loong. After him are Isabella Rossellini, Allan Simonsen, Shigeru Miyamoto, Anneliese Michel, Idriss Déby, and Jimmy Connors.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Goodman ranks 795 out of 20,380. Before him are Marvin Gaye (1939), Bill Russell (1934), Douglass North (1920), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), William Alfred Fowler (1911), and George Eastman (1854). After him are William Saroyan (1908), Leo Frank (1884), Frances McDormand (1957), Harold Lasswell (1902), James Cronin (1931), and Raymond Davis Jr. (1914).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, John Goodman ranks 218. Before him are James Woods (1947), Roy Scheider (1932), Jean Harlow (1911), Charlie Sheen (1965), Brandon Lee (1965), and Mark Hamill (1951). After him are Frances McDormand (1957), Pat Morita (1932), Renée Zellweger (1969), Robert Wagner (1930), Halle Berry (1966), and Gloria Swanson (1899).

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Television and Movie Roles

Monsters, Inc.
Sullivan (voice)
Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.
Nov 1st 20017.846 / 10
10 Cloverfield Lane
Howard
After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.
Mar 10th 20166.994 / 10
The Big Lebowski
Walter Sobchak
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
Mar 6th 19987.8 / 10