Toby Huss

b. 1966 · American actor

Biography

Toby Huss (born December 9, 1966, in Marshalltown, Iowa) is an American actor whose career spans television, film and animation. Rarely a headline name, he has built a dependable body of work in supporting roles, moving with ease between broad comedy and more serious drama.

Huss attended the University of Iowa, where he performed with the No Shame Theatre troupe, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting. In the early 1990s he appeared in network promos for MTV, playing a range of eccentric characters. His first prominent role came as Artie, the self-proclaimed strongest man in the world, in Nickelodeon's The Adventures of Pete & Pete, which ran from 1993 to 1996.

In the years that followed he moved between the small and big screens. He starred as Felix "Stumpy" Dreifuss on HBO's Carnivàle and as John Bosworth on the AMC period drama Halt and Catch Fire, and later played Edward Dickinson in the Apple TV comedy-drama Dickinson. On film he has appeared in comedies such as Bedazzled and Vegas Vacation, as well as in larger releases like 42 and Weapons. He has also been a regular voice in animation, lending his voice to several characters on King of the Hill, and in 2025 he took over the role of Dale Gribble from the late Johnny Hardwick in the revival.

Huss is also a painter and photographer, and has shown his work in solo exhibitions. His career is best understood as that of a working character actor, valued for a long list of distinctive supporting turns rather than a single defining role, and he remains active across screen formats.

Key films

Bedazzled (2000): fantasy comedy in which he appears alongside Elizabeth Hurley, one of his early larger film roles.
42 (2013): biographical drama about Jackie Robinson, in which he is part of the cast of a major sports film of the period.
Vegas Vacation (1997): comedy in which he performs a parody of Frank Sinatra, one of his most recalled characters.
Weapons (2025): thriller in which he plays Captain Ed Locke, one of his most notable recent film roles.

Trivia

Ol' Two Eyes on MTV

In the early 1990s, Huss played Ol' Two Eyes in MTV network promos, a character who performed lounge-style versions of well-known songs such as Pearl Jam's "Jeremy".

Taking over in King of the Hill

In the 2025 revival of King of the Hill, Huss took over the voice of Dale Gribble from Johnny Hardwick, who had voiced the character from the original run until his death in 2023.

Rudy Casoni

Huss created Rudy Casoni, a character inspired by Frank Sinatra, after parodies of Sinatra that he performed in Vegas Vacation, Down Periscope and Halt and Catch Fire, and later released an album under the Casoni name.