Stephen Root (b. 1951) is an American actor who performed the voice of Zeb Zoober in Disney and Jim Henson's Creature Shop's The Country Bears and played Fernand Gudge in The Ladykillers (with a Creature Shop cat).
Root is perhaps best recognized for his role as the eccentric Mr. Jimmy James on the sitcom NewsRadio, as well as high profile character roles in several feature films such as Milton Waddams in Office Space and Gordon Pibb in Dodgeball. As a voice actor, he was heard as Bubbles in Finding Nemo, and Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland on King of the Hill.