Stephen Root

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Film & TV

Acting · Sarasota, Florida, USA

Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American actor. He has starred as Jimmy James on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio (1995–1999), 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, 2025–present). Root has appeared in numerous Coen brothers films, including O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The…

Known for

• The Wrecking Crew — Detective Rennert2026
• Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice — Chet2026
• Strip Law — Glem Blorchman (voice)2026
• Widow's Bay — Wyck2026
• Regular Show: The Lost Tapes — Jampft (voice)2026
• Heads of State — Arthur Hammond2025
• Playdate — Gordon2025
• Dog Man — Grampa (voice)2025
• StuGo — Dr. Rostrum (voice)2025
• Lousy Carter — Analyst2024

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1951

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,134

Total plays

43,778

Stephen (Steve) Root is an audio director / composer for the film and game industry. Stephen trained at Goldsmiths College in London before entering the games industry and spent nine years working within the audio industry. In 1995, he worked on the film Eye of the Beholder. He subsequently became the audio director of the United Kingdom branch of Acclaim Entertainment. In this role, he was responsible for the music of classics such as Alien Trilogy, Die Hard, Hexen, and the Extreme-G series.

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Basic local alignment search tool

   · 1990 · cited 80,810x

2. Convex Optimization

   · 2004 · cited 41,074x

3. Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows

   · 2021 · cited 29,279x

4. Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers

   · 1938 · cited 24,540x

5. Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations

   · 1991 · cited 23,117x

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Key facts

Born

( 1951-11-17 ) November 17, 1951 (age 74) , Sarasota, Florida , U.S.

Education

University of Florida ( BFA )

Occupation

Actor

Years active

1980–present

Spouses

Laura Joan Hase ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1997 ) ​ Romy Rosemont ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2008 ) ​

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