Gerald Isaac Stiller (June 8, 1927 – May 11, 2020) was an American comedian and actor. He spent many years as part of the comedy duo Stiller and Meara with his wife, Anne Meara, to whom he was married for over 60 years until her death in 2015. Stiller saw a late-career resurgence starting in 1993, playing George Costanza's father Frank on the sitcom Seinfeld, a part which earned him an Emmy nomination. The year Seinfeld went off the air, Stiller began his role as the eccentric Arthur Spooner on the CBS comedy series The King of Queens, another role that garnered widespread acclaim.[1]
Stiller appeared together with his son Ben Stiller in films such as Zoolander, Heavyweights, Hot Pursuit, The Heartbreak Kid, and Zoolander 2. He also performed voice-over work for films and television, including The Lion King 1½ and Planes: Fire and Rescue. In his later career, Stiller became known for portraying grumpy and eccentric characters who were nevertheless beloved.[2][3]
^Dennis Bjorklund (September 2017). Seinfeld Reference: The Complete Encyclopedia with Biographies, Character Profiles & Episode Summaries. Praetorian Publishing. pp. 36–. ISBN 978-0-9679852-4-4. Best remembered for his five-year stint on "Seinfeld" in a recurring regular role, Jerry Stiller ... is a veteran actor with a long history of stage performances. His notoriety first came when he revamped the role of George's father, but he was best known for...
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Gerald Isaac Stiller (June 8, 1927 – May 11, 2020) was an American comedian and actor. He spent many years as part of the comedy duo Stiller and Meara with...
one-half of the prominent 1960s comedy team Stiller and Meara. Their son is actor, director, and producer Ben Stiller. She was also featured on stage, on television...
Meara Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American actor, filmmaker, and comedian. He is the son of the comedians and actors JerryStiller and Anne...
Stiller and Meara were a husband-and-wife comedy team made up of JerryStiller and Anne Meara that was popular primarily in the 1960s and 1970s. The duo...
The Stiller and Meara Show is a 1986 television sitcom pilot featuring the comedy duo Stiller and Meara (JerryStiller and Anne Meara) as the deputy mayor...
The Ben Stiller Show is an American sketch comedy series starring Ben Stiller that aired in two iterations, the first series airing six episodes on MTV...
starring Ben Stiller. The film contains elements from a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather and Stiller for the VH1...
Park, Queens, New York, along with Carrie's father, Arthur Spooner (JerryStiller). Doug works for the fictional International Parcel Service (IPS) as...
into laughter at Stiller's performance; she can be seen doing this in the finished episode when Stiller first comes in. "The Fusilli Jerry" has generally...
Goldblatt, Robert Zalkind, Patrick LaBrecque, Jeffrey Tambor, JerryStiller, Anne Meara, and Ben Stiller (in a dual role). The film follows a fat camp for kids...
after all. This was the first episode to feature JerryStiller as George Costanza's dad, Frank. Stiller reshot John Randolph's earlier appearance as Frank...
Arthur Eugene Spooner is a fictional character played by JerryStiller in the American sitcom The King of Queens. He lives with his daughter Carrie and...
directed by Joan Micklin Silver. It stars real life couple JerryStiller and Anne Meara. JerryStiller and Anne Meara play Sam and Molly, a married husband...
as Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Christine Taylor, Milla Jovovich, Nathan Lee Graham, Theroux, Billy Zane, Tommy Hilfiger, and JerryStiller (in...
Ben Stiller is an American actor, comedian, director, producer and screenwriter. He has mostly appeared in comedy films. Stiller is an Emmy Award winner...
directed by Herbert Beige. The film stars Paul Sand, Elliott Gould, JerryStiller, Zachary Taylor, and Jason Biggs. It takes a comic look at a Jewish...
directed by Victoria Hochberg and starring Karla Montana, Panchito Gómez, JerryStiller, and Tony Plana. The plot concerns a fourteen-year-old girl whose dreams...
on Reiss's 2000 picture book of the same name. Voice actors included JerryStiller, Sean Hayes, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jason Alexander, John Ratzenberger...
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