John Goodman
Goodman in 2012, image via kathclick/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: John Stephen Goodman
Place of Birth: Affton, Missouri, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 20, 1952
Ethnicity: English, Welsh, German
John Goodman is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the films Sea of Love, The Flinstones, The Big Lebowski, Monsters, Inc., Speed Racer, Patriots Day, and Kong: Skull Island, and the shows Roseanne, Treme, Alpha House, and The Righteous Gemstones, among many other works.
He is the son of Virginia Roos and Leslie F. Goodman. He is married to Annabeth Hartzog, with whom he has a daughter.
One genealogy traces John’s patrilineal line to William Goodman and Mary Archer, who were born, c. the early 1600s, in England.
John’s paternal grandfather was Francis Marion Goodman (the son of Francis Marion Goodman and Martha Jane Crain). John’s grandfather Francis was born in Illinois. John’s great-grandfather Francis was the son of John Goodman and Jarusha Benefield. Martha was the daughter of Isaac Newton Crain and Mary A. Swaggard.
John’s paternal grandmother was named Lillie M. Harrison (the daughter of Edward Harrison and Elen/Emma). Lillie was born in Illinois.
John’s maternal grandfather was William Benjamin Loosmore (the son of John William Loosmore and Elizabeth Davis Lewis). John’s grandfather William was born in Pennsylvania. John was born in Upottery, Devon, England, the son of William Loosmore and Mary Broom. Elizabeth was born in Glamorganshire, Wales, the daughter of Benjamin Lewis.
John’s maternal grandmother was Mathilde Mary Knoblauch (the daughter of Rudolph Herman Knoblauch and Mary Jane Overton). Mathilde was born in Arkansas. Rudolph was born in Tours, France, to an ethnic German family, the son of Charles Frederich Knoblauch, from Saxony, and of Salome Roos, from Baden, Lower Saxony. John’s great-grandmother Mary Jane was born in Tunica, Mississippi, the daughter of Ephraim Dawson Overton and Angeline Sebelia Parker.
Sources: Genealogies of John Goodman – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
https://www.geni.com
Genealogy of John Goodman (focusing on his father’s side) – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of John Goodman (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com
He looks like my neighbour when i was a child.
http://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Goodman-Family-Tree-2313
He is of Germanic and Celtic ancestry.
Nope he’s mostly English with a bit of Welsh & German
So that would make him 75% English, 12.5% Welsh, and 12.5% German.
I thought he was Jewish