Toby Huss has been tapped to voice the conspiracy-minded Dale Gribble in King of the Hill‘s upcoming Season 14 revival.
He takes over the role voiced by the late Johnny Hardwick, who portrayed the character in the show’s original 13-year run, appearing in 257 of 258 episodes. Hardwick died in 2023. Due to the long lead time on animated shows, he had completed six episodes before he passed, and will be credited as a series regular on those episodes until they have aired and Huss takes over the role. Hardwick had been with the Emmy-winning animated series since its debut in 1997 through its final episode on Fox in 2010. He also served as a writer and a story editor during his run on the show.
The show notes Dale Gribble is an unsuccessful exterminator and massive conspiracy theorist who is one of Hank Hill’s long-time friends. In the revival, he remains an extreme skeptic at heart with even wilder conspiracies and half-baked, elaborate schemes.
Huss is actually an alum of King of the Hill, having voiced Kahn Souphanousinphone Sr./Cotton Hill on 164 episodes from 1997-2010. His additional credits include guest or recurring roles on The Four Seasons, NCIS: Origins, Bookie, White House Plumbers, Seinfeld and Halt and Catch Fire, among many others. On the film side he appeared in Copshop, City of Lies, Halloween, to name a few.
As we reported earlier, Season 14 of King of the Hill premieres August 4 on Hulu, 15 years after it ended its original run. The revival picks up several years after we last saw the Hill family – Hank and Peggy Hill are now retired and return to a changed Arlen after years of working in Saudi Arabia; and Bobby is 21 and living his best life while navigating adulthood as a chef in Dallas.
Both Huss and Hardwick are listed among Season 14 cast in Hulu’s press release today announcing the premiere date.
The show is set for a reunion panel today at the ATX TV Festival in Austin, TX, featuring co-creators and executive producers Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, executive producer/showrunner Saladin Patterson, and series’ stars Pamela Adlon, Lauren Tom and Huss.
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