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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, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Vanity Fair has called Goodman "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 on leading roles in King Ralph (1991), The Babe (1992), Matinee (1993), The Flintstones (1994), and 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016). Goodman also had supporting roles in Revenge of the Nerds (1984), True Stories (1986), Sea of Love (1989), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Storytelling (2001), Speed Racer (2008), The Artist (2011), Flight (2012), Argo (2012), The Hangover Part III (2013), and Atomic Blonde (2017). He has voiced roles in The Emperor's New Groove franchise (2000–2008), the Monsters, Inc. franchise (2001–present), The Jungle Book 2 (2003), and Bee Movie (2007). On television, Goodman gained recognition by playing the family patriarch Dan Conner in the comedy series Roseanne (1988–1997; 2018) and The Conners (2018–present). Goodman had regular roles in the HBO drama series Treme (2010–2011), the legal drama series Damages (2011), the political comedy series Alpha House (2013–2014), and the HBO comedy series The Righteous Gemstones (2019–present). He has been a frequent host of Saturday Night Live (1989–2013) and has guest starred in The West Wing (2003–2004), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006), and Community (2011–2012). Goodman started his career at The Public Theatre, acting in numerous productions, including Henry IV, Part 1 (1981), The Skin of Our Teeth (1998), and The Seagull (2001). He made his Broadway debut in Big River (1985), for which Goodman received a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical nomination. He returned to Broadway in revivals of the Samuel Becket play Waiting for Godot (2009) and the newspaper comedy The Front Page (2016). Goodman debuted his West End in a revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo (2015).
John Goodman
Uncle Ben
for Uncle Ben in Spider-Man: Surge of Vengeance
Suggested by matthewfenner
Three months into his life as Spider-Man, Peter Parker is still learning what it means to be a hero — and how much it’s already cost him. Still reeling from Uncle Ben’s death, Peter struggles to balance his double life as a broke high school student and a masked vigilante hunted by both criminals and the police. When an Oscorp electrical engineer named Max Dillon is caught in a catastrophic accident that turns him into a living conduit of raw energy, New York becomes a city on edge. Transformed by pain and rejection, Max becomes Electro, a man who can manipulate power itself — and who blames Spider-Man for the chaos that defines his existence. Spider-Man: Surge of Vengeance dives into the raw, violent heart of Peter’s first year behind the mask. As Electro electrifies the city’s grid, turning Manhattan into a neon battlefield, Peter faces a new kind of enemy — not just superpowered, but human, scarred, and driven by the same anger that once defined him. The R-rated intensity lays bare the consequences of heroism: shattered bones, burned skin, and moral lines crossed in the name of survival. In the film’s harrowing climax, Peter must choose between saving the city that fears him and saving the man who mirrors his own broken soul — proving that being Spider-Man isn’t about power, but the price you’re willing to pay for it.
