Tobias Huss (born December 9, 1966) is an American actor, known for
portraying Artie in the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete &
Pete (1993â€"1996). He is also known for his voice-over work on the
long-running animated series King of the Hill (1997â€"2010) and his
role as Felix "Stumpy" Dreifuss on HBO's Carnivà le (2003â€"2005). He
played John Bosworth on the AMC original period drama Halt and Catch
Fire.Huss was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, to Gerald and Elma Huss. He
attended the University of Iowa, where he participated in No Shame
Theatre before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.In the
early 1990s, Huss appeared in network promos for MTV, playing odd
characters, including a crooner known at the time as Ol' Two Eyes, who
sang lounge-singer versions of Dr. Dre's "Dre Day", Cypress Hill's
"Insane in the Brain", Pearl Jam's "Jeremy", and Onyx's hit "Slam"; a
James Bond-like spy named Cobalt; a leather fetishist with an abnormal
affection for goats; a flannel-wearing doofus; and an angry redneck
named Reverend Tex Stoveheadbottom, who delivered fast-talking and
descriptively detailed non-sequitur tirades that usually included the
phrase, "Go to Hell!"Other roles include the voices of Cotton Hill and
Kahn Souphanousinphone on King of the Hill and a boyfriend of Elaine
Benes in the episode "The Junk Mail" of Seinfeld. From his parodies of
Frank Sinatra, which were featured in the films Vegas Vacation and
Down Periscope, Huss has created a Sinatra-inspired character named
Rudy Casoni.
portraying Artie in the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete &
Pete (1993â€"1996). He is also known for his voice-over work on the
long-running animated series King of the Hill (1997â€"2010) and his
role as Felix "Stumpy" Dreifuss on HBO's Carnivà le (2003â€"2005). He
played John Bosworth on the AMC original period drama Halt and Catch
Fire.Huss was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, to Gerald and Elma Huss. He
attended the University of Iowa, where he participated in No Shame
Theatre before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.In the
early 1990s, Huss appeared in network promos for MTV, playing odd
characters, including a crooner known at the time as Ol' Two Eyes, who
sang lounge-singer versions of Dr. Dre's "Dre Day", Cypress Hill's
"Insane in the Brain", Pearl Jam's "Jeremy", and Onyx's hit "Slam"; a
James Bond-like spy named Cobalt; a leather fetishist with an abnormal
affection for goats; a flannel-wearing doofus; and an angry redneck
named Reverend Tex Stoveheadbottom, who delivered fast-talking and
descriptively detailed non-sequitur tirades that usually included the
phrase, "Go to Hell!"Other roles include the voices of Cotton Hill and
Kahn Souphanousinphone on King of the Hill and a boyfriend of Elaine
Benes in the episode "The Junk Mail" of Seinfeld. From his parodies of
Frank Sinatra, which were featured in the films Vegas Vacation and
Down Periscope, Huss has created a Sinatra-inspired character named
Rudy Casoni.
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