FrameThrower · Actors · John Goodman
John Goodman
18 films · 1,050 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1986–2017
Born 20 June 1952 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
John Stephen Goodman 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, appearing in films such as Raising Arizona (1987), Barton Fink (1991), The Big Lebowski (1998), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 18 films · 1,050 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1986–2017
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series2006
- Disney Legends2013
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,050 frames from the 18 films we hold. This is the look of the work John takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 18 films we hold, 54% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work John takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Kong: Skull Island
2017 · Bill Randa
10 Cloverfield Lane
2016 · Howard
The Artist
2011 · Al Zimmer
Speed Racer
2008 · Pops Racer
Monsters, Inc.
2001 · Sullivan (voice)
Bringing Out The Dead
1999 · Larry Verber
The Big Lebowski
1998 · Walter Sobchak
Barton Fink
1991 · Charlie Meadows
True Stories
1986 · Louis Fyne
Atomic Blonde
2017 · Emmett Kurzfeld
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017 · Igon Siruss (voice)
The Hangover Part III
2013 · Marshall
Argo
2012 · John Chambers
The Princess and the Frog
2009 · "Big Daddy" La Bouff (voice)
Death Sentence
2007 · Bones Darley
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · Big Dan Teague
Raising Arizona
1987 · Gale
The Big Easy
1986 · Andre DeSoto
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,050 frames from John Goodman's 18 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.