Jonathan Joss

Jonathan Joss occupied a space in American television that nobody else could fill, and his passing in 2025 left it genuinely empty. As John Redcorn on King of the Hill he gave a long-running animated character unexpected dignity and melancholy, and as Chief Ken Hotate on Parks and Recreation he wielded deadpan Native American humor with surgical precision — always in on the joke, never the butt of it. I valued how he carried his heritage into rooms that rarely made space for it, doing so with warmth rather than grievance. His was a quiet, durable kind of artistry, and I think audiences will keep discovering him for years.

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Name (English)

Jonathan Joss

Name (Japanese)

ジョナサン・ジョス

Reading

じょなさん・じょす

Born

December 22, 1965 – June 1, 2025

Origin

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / voice actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Snake

High school

McCollum High School

University

Texas State University

• Official sitehttp://www.jonathanjoss.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/originalredcorn/
• Xhttps://x.com/Redcorn22
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Joss
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3183397

Tags

• Texas
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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