Biography
Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American actor. He has starred as Jimmy James on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio, as Milton Waddams in the film Office Space (1999), and voiced Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland on the animated series King of the Hill (1997–2010). Root has appeared in numerous Coen brothers films including O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Ladykillers (2004), No Country for Old Men (2007), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). Other notabl...
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Complete Filmography

Heads of State
2025
as Arthur Hammond
The UK Prime Minister and US President have a public rivalry that risks their countries' alliance. But when they become targets of a powerful enemy, t...

Dog Man
2025
as Grampa (voice)
When a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured together on the job, a harebrained but life-saving surgery fuses the two of ...

Lousy Carter
2024
as Analyst
Man-baby Lousy Carter struggles to complete his animated Nabokov adaptation, teaches a graduate seminar on The Great Gatsby, and sleeps with his best ...

Paint
2023
as Tony
Carl Nargle, Vermont’s #1 public television painter, is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke… u...

To Leslie
2022
as Dutch
A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running o...

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
2022
as Jail Tattoo Artist (voice)
In 1998, Beavis and Butt-Head are sentenced to Space Camp by a “creative” judge. Their obsession with a docking simulator (huh huh) leads to a trip on...

The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021
as Porter
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurre...

Queenpins
2021
as Agent Flannigan
Bored and frustrated suburban homemaker Connie and her best pal JoJo, a vlogger with dreams, turn a hobby into a multi-million-dollar counterfeit coup...

Home
2021
as Father Browning
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.

Four Good Days
2021
as Chris
A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.

Happily
2021
as Goodman
Tom and Janet have been happily married for years. But a visit from a mysterious stranger leads to a dead body, a lot of questions, and a tense couple...

Uncle Frank
2020
as Daddy Mac
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's fu...

The Empty Man
2020
as Arthur Parsons
Retired cop James Lasombra is asked by a friend to investigate the disappearance of her daughter, who seemingly packed in the night and left an ominou...

Seberg
2019
as Walt Breckman
An ambitious young FBI agent is assigned to investigate iconic actress Jean Seberg when she becomes embroiled in the tumultuous civil rights movement ...

Bombshell
2019
as Neil Mullin
Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought do...

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
2019
as Cockmando (voice)
Jay and Silent Bob embark on a cross-country mission to stop Hollywood from rebooting a film based on their comic book characters Bluntman and Chronic...

On the Basis of Sex
2018
as Professor Brown
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century o...

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018
as Teller (segment "Near Algodones")
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songste...

Life of the Party
2018
as Mike Cook
When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college... landing in the same clas...

Cook-Off!
2017
as Morty Van Rookle
Amateur 'chefs' from around the country compete for a million dollar prize in the ultimate food fight.

Three Christs
2017
as Dr. Rogers
Dr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are...

Miles
2017
as Ron Walton
High school senior Miles Walton joins the girls volleyball team in hopes of winning a college scholarship, which causes an uproar in his small Illinoi...

Infinity Baby
2017
as Fenton
Owing to a genetic mix-up involving stem cell research, the recently founded company Infinity Baby is able to offer a service for aspiring parents who...

Get Out
2017
as Jim Hudson
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as ner...

Spectral
2016
as Dr. Mindala
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.

Looking for the Jackalope
2016
as The Jackalope (voice)
A disenchanted writer takes an ill-fated journey from New York to his college reunion in Ohio in an attempt to reunite with his old college girlfriend...

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
2016
as Burt
Mike and Dave are young, adventurous, fun-loving brothers who tend to get out of control at family gatherings. When their sister Jeanie reveals her Ha...

Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz
2016
as Uncle Henry (voice)
After capturing the good witch, the villainous King Gnome creates havoc throughout Oz as he needs Dorothy's ruby slippers to take control of the Emera...

Finding Dory
2016
as Bubbles (voice)
Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did ...

All the Way
2016
as J. Edgar Hoover
Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his...

Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
as Todd
A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker.

O.W.C.A. Files
2015
as Floyd / Additional Voices (voice)
When an attack on the O.W.C.A. incapacitates the animal agents, only Agent P and his animal trainees can save the day. Carl and Monogram fend for them...

Trumbo
2015
as Hymie King
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklist...

7 Chinese Brothers
2015
as George
Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Tak...

Selma
2014
as Col. Al Lingo
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous stateme...

Lennon or McCartney
2014
as Self
550 artists were interviewed over ten years. At some point during those interviews, they were asked a question and told to answer with one word only. ...

I Know That Voice
2014
as Self
Filmmaker Lawrence Shapiro discusses voice-over acting with the talented people behind the characters.

Sweetwater
2013
as Hugh
In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the N...

Bad Milo!
2013
as Roger
A horror comedy centered on a guy who learns that his unusual stomach problems are being caused by a demon living in his intestines.

The Lone Ranger
2013
as Habberman
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is ...

Superman: Unbound
2013
as Zor-El (voice)
Superman and Supergirl take on the cybernetic being known as Brainiac, who boasts that he possesses "the knowledge and strength of 10,000 worlds."

The Arrangement
2013
as Avery Boomer
A Colombian woman moves to Miami to marry an ambitious politician, in an attempt to leave her troubled past behind.

The Company You Keep
2012
as Billy Cusimano
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.

Big Miracle
2012
as Governor Haskell
A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of...

J. Edgar
2011
as Arthur Koehler
As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind close...

Batman: Year One
2011
as Brendon (voice)
A wealthy playboy named Bruce Wayne and a Chicago cop named Jim Gordon both return to Gotham City where their lives unexpectedly intersect.

Red State
2011
as Sherrif Wynan
Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter Christian fundamentalists with a much more si...

Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz
2011
as Uncle Henry / Crows (voice)
After a deadly storm, Tom and Jerry find themselves stranded on an unknown island ruled by the evil Wizard of Oz. As they try to find their way back h...

Everything Must Go
2011
as Elliot
When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighb...

The Conspirator
2011
as John Lloyd
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she ...

Rango
2011
as Doc / Merrimack / Mr. Snuggles (voice)
When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stand...

Son of Morning
2011
as Senator Larder
As a solar catastrophe threatens the world, Phillip Katz (Joseph Cross), a stressed-out copywriter, is mistaken for the next messiah by an ambitious r...

Cedar Rapids
2011
as Bill Krogstad
A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.

Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
2010
as Burt (voice)
Scooby and the gang experience outdoor fun as they go back to Fred's old summer camp. As summer goes on, it becomes increasingly clear that the spooky...

Unthinkable
2010
as Charles Thompson
The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned...
Glock
2009
as Remington
Short film about a new spy who is waiting on his first job. And waiting, and waiting....

The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009
as Gus Lacey
A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Ea...
13 Scarier Movie Moments
2009
as Self
Final entry in the Bravo scary movie moments countdowns that aired in 2009.

Squirly Town
2009
as Lance (voice)
Straight-laced squirrel Lance gets a splitting headache after his crazy friend Zoopie puts a tarantula in the acorn butter. To cure his pain, Zoopie t...

Imagine That
2009
as Fred Franklin
A financial executive who can't stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter's imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await.

The Soloist
2009
as Curt Reynolds
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.

Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts
2009
as Turtle (voice)
Maya Dolittle can talk to animals. She gets discovered and Tiffany Monaco, a Hollywood star, brings her to L.A. to help her little puppy, who turns ou...

Bob Funk
2009
as Steve
After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who...

Tripping the Rift: The Movie
2008
as Chode (voice)
What begins for Chode and crew as a routine mission to protect a pissed-off princess will soon become a filth- splattered saga of dismembered royalty,...

Leatherheads
2008
as Suds
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing ...

Drillbit Taylor
2008
as Principal Doppler
Dealing with a sociopathic school bully, three high school freshmen hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them, not realizing he is just a homeless b...

Over Her Dead Body
2008
as Sculptor
After his fiancée, Kate, dies in an accident on their wedding day, veterinarian Henry grows depressed. To help him move on, his sister has him visit p...

Mad Money
2008
as Glover
Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.

No Country for Old Men
2007
as Man Who Hires Wells
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it,...

Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007
as Sheriff Brock
West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents in order to escape their unhappy and emotionally ...

The Fox and the Hound 2
2006
as Talent Scout (voice)
Best friends Tod, a fox kit, and Copper, a hound puppy, visit a country fair when they see a band of dogs called "The Singin' Strays". The band has fi...

Idiocracy
2006
as Judge Hector "The Hangman" (uncredited)
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and s...

Gretchen
2006
as Herb
Gretchen has bigger problems than abysmal fashion sense: She's 17, painfully awkward and stuck in the most unforgiving place on earth - high school. W...

Ice Age: The Meltdown
2006
as Aardvark Dad (voice)
Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is ...

Just Friends
2005
as KC
While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with – a woman whose re...

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
2005
as Cowboy Gambler (voice; uncredited)
Dr. Drakken has an evil new plot for world domination, but his ultimate success depends upon finding out KP's weakness which may involve a new hottie ...

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
2004
as Vince Masters
While Ron Burgundy's rivalry with Veronica Corningstone escalates quickly, a group of unprofessional thieves better known as 'The Alarm Clock' try to ...

Surviving Christmas
2004
as Dr. Freeman
A wealthy executive, Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) has no close relationships and becomes nostalgic for his childhood home as Christmas approaches. When h...

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004
as Gordon
When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-...

Jersey Girl
2004
as Greenie
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he'...

The Ladykillers
2004
as Fernand Gudge
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord...

Raising Genius
2004
as Dwight Nestor
The film is about a boy who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall. The boy has obsessive compulsive parents. The...

Grind
2003
as Cameron
Four skaters follow their idol on his summer tour in an attempt to get noticed, get sponsored, and become stars themselves.

Finding Nemo
2003
as Bubbles (voice)
Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome ...

The Country Bears
2002
as Zeb Zoober (voice)
For Beary Barrington, The Country Bears' young #1 fan, fitting in with his all-too-human family is proving im-paws-ible. When he runs away to find Cou...

Ice Age
2002
as Frank / Start (voice)
With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and S...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
as Radio Station Man
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

Bicentennial Man
1999
as Dennis Mansky
Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the ...

The Sissy Duckling
1999
as Big Ducky (voice)
Elmer, a sensitive duckling whose schoolmates tease him. However, after his unusual talents help him save a life, the other members of the flock learn...

Office Space
1999
as Milton Waddams
A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living...

Gut Feeling
1999
as Kane Cohen
A young advertising executive creates the world's hottest ad campaign, only to find himself fired a week later.

The Monster Hunter
1999
as Mr. Crenshaw
Residents of an East Texas town react strangely when a serial killer invades their small town world.

Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
as Gerald Adams
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a h...

steve.oedekerk.com
1997
A mix of stand-up comedy and sketches, notable for its mixing of live action and computer animation. The "premise" is that a young boy is watching the...

The Lottery
1996
as Graham Dunbar
Returning to his small hometown of Icara, Maine, a man discovers its horrible secret -- a bizarre, clandestine ritual that led to his mother's early d...

The Road to Galveston
1996
as Ed Kirkman
Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind w...

In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
1995
as Jaan Laaman
When a state trooper is gunned down on a New Jersey highway, his friend and colleague sets out to track down the killers. Realizing the murder is conn...

Night of the Scarecrow
1995
as Frank
A group of drunk teenagers accidently set free the spirit of a warlock, which possesses a scarecrow. The scarecrow goes on a bloody rampage killing th...

Bye Bye Love
1995
as Awakened Neighbor
With varying degrees of success, recently divorced friends Dave, Vic and Donny are trying to move on with their lives. Vic feels vilified by his ex-wi...

Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1994
as Kevin McDonald
The sequel to "A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story" in which Betty Broderick is on trial for the murder of her ex-husband and his new wife.

Extreme Justice
1993
as Max Alvarez
Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop...

Dave
1993
as Don Durenberger
A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the Pre...

Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story
1993
as Dr. Kirby
Elizabeth Montgomery plays serial killer, churchgoer, and grandmother Blanch Taylor Moore in this, one of her last films before her untimely passing. ...

Class of '61
1993
as Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
Three West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of The Civil War, with tragic consequences. A subplot invo...

RoboCop 3
1993
as Coontz
The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortuna...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
as Gary Murray
Blonde, bouncy Buffy is your typical high school cheerleader. But all that changes when a strange man informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill va...

A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story
1992
as Kevin McDonald
After sixteen years of marriage and four children, Betty Broderick's high-powered attorney husband decides to leave her for a younger woman with whom ...

Bed & Breakfast
1991
as Randolph
Life changes for three women who run a failing hotel when a mysterious man washes up at the beach.

V.I. Warshawski
1991
as Mickey
Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective t...

Golden Years
1991
as Major Moreland
When an explosion at a top-secret government lab injures an elderly janitor, no one could have expected the terrifying results. Exposure to mysterious...

Guilty by Suspicion
1991
as RKO Guard
Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for h...

Ghost
1990
as Police Sgt.
After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

Stanley & Iris
1990
as Mr. Hentley
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inabili...

Black Rain
1989
as Berg
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to es...

Monkey Shines
1988
as Dean Burbage
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against...

Crocodile Dundee II
1988
as DEA Agent (Toilet)
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.

Thelma
N/A
Follows John Kennedy Toole's mother, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole died by suicide before finding a home for his...
Playdate
N/A
as Gordon
Down-on-his luck Brian, just fired from his job, becomes an unexpected stay-at-home dad to his 10 year old son. On his first day, he accepts a playdat...
The Wrecking Crew
N/A
Two half-brothers—one a loose cannon cop and the other a disciplined Navy SEAL—must work together after 20 odd years of bad blood to unravel a conspir...
Unbearable Christmas
N/A
The Tipton family embark on a chaotic cross-country trip filled with misadventure, emotional blowups, and unexpected holiday magic — the kind that onl...