Stephen Root

Stephen Root

Stephen Aaron Root (born November 17, 1951) is a voice actor on King of the Hill. He provides the voice of Bill Dauterive, Buck Strickland, and other minor characters.

Root also has appeared in the live action films Office Space and Idiocracy, both written and directed by King of the Hill co-creator Mike Judge.

King of the Hill

For the many characters that Root voiced on King of the Hill, see Category:Characters voiced by Stephen Root.

Besides Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland, Root has voiced various other characters, including:

• Earl
• Ray Holiday
• Milk Factory Tour Guide
• County Gun Club instructor (in "How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying")
• Hal Dumpty
• Doug
• Ophthalmologist
• Pink & White customer (in "I Remember Mono")
• Beef
• Coach Maxwell
• Topsy Toppington
• Jeter Turbeville
• Lyle Neff
• Dr. Tannenbaum
• Prison warden (in "Death and Texas")
• Chet Halley
• Sam Houston Mental Health Center doctor (in "Naked Ambition")
• Senior Monk
• Arlen Midget
• Mr. Winston
• Mega Lo Mart employee (in "Flush with Power")
• Optician
• Austinental Hotel desk clerk (in "Hank and the Great Glass Elevator")
• Donald
• Lewis
• Assistant Pastor Larry (Season 5; in "Luanne Virgin 2.0")
• Officer Collins
• Manitoba Tobacco Corporation legal counsel member (in "The Trouble with Gribbles")
• YMCA employee (in "Bobby Goes Nuts")
• Renaissance Faire tour guide (in "Joust Like a Woman")
• Econo-Suites concierge (in "The Substitute Spanish Prisoner")
• Arlen Public Library employee and alien urine vendor (in "Of Mice and Little Green Men")
• Steven
• Heimlich County Rose Show judge (in "The Son Also Roses")
• Mustached police officer (in "The Texas Skillsaw Massacre")
• Book club attendee (in "Full Metal Dust Jacket")
• Strickland Propane customer (in "The Miseducation of Bobby Hill")
• Hotel Arlen dining hall host (in "The Good Buck")
• Tattoo removal doctor (in "Be True to Your Fool")
• McCarver Electrical and Plumbing Repair repairman (in "Racist Dawg")
• Flea market vendor (in "The Witches of East Arlen")
• Motel Arlen guest (in "After the Mold Rush")
• Nifty Grifty's Truckstop manager (in "Livin' on Reds, Vitamin C and Propane")
• Virtual golf video game voice (in "Rich Hank, Poor Hank")
• Eric's father
• Everett
• Benson (in "DaleTech")
• Ghost of the Alamo actor and Pork Processing Plant employee (in "How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Alamo")
• Off-duty doctor (in "Stressed for Success")
• Gray-haired doctor (in "Hank's Back")
• Doc Platter
• Mustached police officer (in "Ms. Wakefield")
• Jim (Death Buys a Timeshare)
• Unnamed suburbanite (in "Yard, She Blows!")
• West Arlen Medical Center doctor (in "Dale to the Chief")
• Dr. Yandell
• T.J. (Enrique-cilable Differences)
• Plainsman Insurance supervisor (in "Enrique-cilable Differences")
• Football referee and mustached truck driver (in "Care-Takin' Care of Business")
• National Corn Chips supervisor (in "Arlen City Bomber")
• Police officer (in "Redcorn Gambles With His Future")
• MK's bartender (in "Smoking and the Bandit")
• Firefighter and Pork Festival attendee (in "Gone With the Windstorm")
• Higgs
• Mr. Coyle (in "Harlottown")
• Randy
• Swimming pool contractor (in "Orange You Sad I Did Say Banana?")
• Strickland Propane customer (in "24 Hour Propane People")
• Pedestrian (in "The Texas Panhandler")
• Gray-haired, mustached police officer (in "Hank's Bully")
• Dog bakery employee (in "The Peggy Horror Picture Show")
• Don
• Important Productions staff member (in "Hank Gets Dusted")
• Gay house buyer (in "Glen Peggy Glen Ross")
• Mustached building committee member (in "The Passion of the Dauterive")
• Dr. Stephens
• Heimlich County Zoo security guard (in "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow")
• Jake Middleton
• Stu
• Tim
• Sal
• Superintendent (in "Tears of an Inflatable Clown")
• Nine Rivers Country Club security guard (in "The Minh Who Knew Too Much")
• Mustached police officer (in "Doggone Crazy")
• George Washington (in "Trans-Fascism")
• Police dispatcher (in "The Accidental Terrorist")
• Sam (Spencer Academy)
• Durndle Bar patron (in "Strangeness on a Train")
• Leo
• Officer McMurtry (in "Cops and Robert")
• Pedro
• Bazooms! customer (in "Cops and Robert")
• Bookies Readin Room employee (in "It Came From the Garage")
• Excavator operator (in "Square-Footed Monster")
• Pat Ritchie
• The Arlen Barn manager (in "Uncool Customer")
• Blond police officer (in "Uh-oh, Canada")

Trivia

• Root originally auditioned for the role of Dale Gribble, but he later stated that "it didn't feel right". The role was eventually given to Johnny Hardwick.
• Since December 14, 2008, Root is married to Romy Rosemont, who voiced the characters Margo and Tricia.

External links

• Stephen Root at IMDb
• Stephen Root at Wikipedia