A character player who essayed numerous supporting parts in TV-movies and feature films before landing on "NewsRadio" (NBC, 1995-99), as station manager Jimmy James, Stephen Root left college to join the National Shakespeare Company and has also performed with other repertory companies. He made his Off-Broadway debut in "Journey's End" and starred on Broadway in the short-lived "So Long on Lonely Street", although he found more notice in the spotlighted revival of "All My Sons" (1987), with Richard Kiley.Although he had made two German films in New York, Root began to win parts in and film