Johnny Hardwick, voice actor who played Dale Gribble on “King of the Hill”, dies at 64

“King of the Hill” voice actor Johnny Hardwick has died at 64, the Travis County Medical Examiner workplace of Austin confirmed to CBS Information.

Hardwick performed the cartoon character Dale Gribble in Fox’s animated collection, which ran from 1997 to 2010. Gribble, an exterminator and bounty hunter, loves conspiracy theories and concrete legends.

Hardwick was part of the collection from the very first episode, and earned an Emmy in 1999 for Excellent Animated Program, in addition to two different nominations in 2001 and 2002 for the present. The voice actor was additionally a workers author, story editor and producer for the animated collection.

Table Read to Celebrate the 200th Episode of — Johnny Hardwick, far to the correct on the higher row, who performed Dale on “King of the Hill”, with the solid and visitors celebrating the two hundredth episode of of the present on April 8, 2005.

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In January, it was introduced there can be a revival of “King of the Hill” for Hulu, with a lot of the unique solid, together with Hardwick, agreeing to take part, in line with Deadline.

The collection was initially created by Mike Decide and Greg Daniels, and in addition starred Kathy Najimy, Stephen Root, Pamela Adlon and Lauren Tom.

Hardwick, a Texas native, started his profession as a slapstick comedian in 1990 earlier than touchdown a spot on the workers of “King of the Hill.” After his time on the present, he maintained a presence on YouTube, posting tune parodies and different comedy movies for almost 20,000 subscribers.