Stephen Root

Known for Acting

Acting credits

2026 Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice as Chet
2026 The Wrecking Crew as Detective Rennert
2025 Playdate as Gordon
2025 Heads of State as Arthur Hammond
2025 Dog Man as Grampa (voice)
2022 To Leslie as Dutch
2021 The Tragedy of Macbeth as Porter
2021 Queenpins as Agent Flannigan
2021 Happily as Goodman
2020 Uncle Frank as Daddy Mac
2020 The Empty Man as Arthur Parsons
2019 Bombshell as Neil Mullin
2018 On the Basis of Sex as Professor Brown
2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs as Teller (segment "Near Algodones")
2018 Life of the Party as Mike Cook
2017 Three Christs as Dr. Rogers
2017 Get Out as Jim Hudson
2016 Spectral as Dr. Mindala
2016 Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates as Burt
2016 Finding Dory as Bubbles (voice)
2016 All the Way as J. Edgar Hoover
2015 Hello, My Name Is Doris as Todd
2015 Trumbo as Hymie King
2013 The Lone Ranger as Habberman
2013 Superman: Unbound as Zor-El (voice)
2012 The Company You Keep as Billy Cusimano
2012 Big Miracle as Governor Haskell
2011 Batman: Year One as Brendon (voice)
2011 Red State as Sherrif Wynan
2011 Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz as Uncle Henry / Crows (voice)
2011 Everything Must Go as Elliot
2011 The Conspirator as John Lloyd
2011 Rango as Doc / Merrimack / Mr. Snuggles (voice)
2011 Cedar Rapids as Bill Krogstad
2010 Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare as Burt (voice)
2010 Unthinkable as Charles Thompson
2009 The Men Who Stare at Goats as Gus Lacey
2009 Imagine That as Fred Franklin
2009 The Soloist as Curt Reynolds
2008 Leatherheads as Suds
2008 Mad Money as Glover
2007 No Country for Old Men as Man Who Hires Wells
2006 The Fox and the Hound 2 as Talent Scout (voice)
2006 Ice Age: The Meltdown as Aardvark Dad (voice)
2005 Just Friends as KC
2005 Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama as Cowboy Gambler (voice; uncredited)
2004 Surviving Christmas as Dr. Freeman
2004 DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story as Gordon
2004 The Ladykillers as Fernand Gudge
2004 Jersey Girl as Greenie
2003 Grind as Cameron
2003 Finding Nemo as Bubbles (voice)
2002 Ice Age as Rhino / Start (voice)
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Radio Station Man
1999 Bicentennial Man as Dennis Mansky
1999 Office Space as Milton
1993 RoboCop 3 as Coontz
1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Gary Murray
1991 Guilty by Suspicion as RKO Guard
1990 Ghost as Police Sgt.
1989 Black Rain as Berg
1988 Monkey Shines as Dean Burbage
1988 Crocodile Dundee II as DEA Agent (Toilet)