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Seinfeld. Late in his career, Stiller earned the part of the short-tempered Frank Costanza, father of George Costanza, on the sitcom Seinfeld. He played the role from 1993 until 1998. [18] Stiller's character as initially envisioned was a "meek" and "Thurberesque" character that required him to wear a bald cap.
Jerry Stiller. Actor: The Heartbreak Kid. As the short, straight-man counterpart of the stellar husband-and-wife comedy team "Stiller & Meara", Jerry Stiller and wife Anne Meara were on top of the comedy game in the 1960s, a steady and hilarious presence on television variety, notably The Ed Sullivan Show (1948), on which they appeared 36 times.
May 11, 2020 · Jerry Stiller, a classically trained actor who became a comedy star twice — in the 1960s in partnership with his wife, Anne Meara, and in the 1990s with a memorable recurring role on...
May 11, 2020 · Jerry Stiller, an actor and comedian and father to Ben Stiller, has died of natural causes. He was 92. Ben Stiller confirmed his father’s death early Monday morning, writing on Twitter: “I’m...
May 11, 2020 · Jerry Stiller was a multi-talented performer who appeared in an assortment of movies, playing Walter Matthau’s police sidekick in the thriller “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” and...
May 11, 2020 · Jerry Stiller, the character actor who comprised half of a beloved husband-and-wife comedy team with Anne Meara and went on to have an unlikely late-career run playing barking TV curmudgeons on...
May 11, 2020 · Comedian veteran Jerry Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and reemerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash television show “Seinfeld,” died at 92, his son Ben Stiller announced Monday. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File) Read More. 5 of 6 |.
