Sad to see this headline.
He was 92 and had a career that spanned generations. Made a transition from vaudeville to Seinfeld and movies. Half of the Stiller & Meara comedy team, and husband of Meara, father of Ben Stiller. The comedy was generally 'clean' comedy, often just silly humor, rarely crude. He transitioned to acting in later life and seemed to be typecast as the father figure in TV sit-coms providing a comic foil.
Many stories popping up about this sad death, which was of natural cause. Here is just a link to one of many tributes: https://www.nwitimes.com/news/natio...oKlYE7Fbyb6RTr_KajpvCKFNYZQ-x_HWFM1rBB5O61vQU
He was 92 and had a career that spanned generations. Made a transition from vaudeville to Seinfeld and movies. Half of the Stiller & Meara comedy team, and husband of Meara, father of Ben Stiller. The comedy was generally 'clean' comedy, often just silly humor, rarely crude. He transitioned to acting in later life and seemed to be typecast as the father figure in TV sit-coms providing a comic foil.
Many stories popping up about this sad death, which was of natural cause. Here is just a link to one of many tributes: https://www.nwitimes.com/news/natio...oKlYE7Fbyb6RTr_KajpvCKFNYZQ-x_HWFM1rBB5O61vQU
FULL STORY AND PHOTOS AT THE LINK ABOVE.Jerry Stiller, comedian and 'Seinfeld' actor, dies at 92
]NEW YORK (AP) — Comedy 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.
He died of natural causes, his son — a comedy star himself — said in a tweet.
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 Divine's husband Wilbur Turnblad in John Waters' twisted comedy "Hairspray."
He also wrote an autobiography, "Married to Laughter," about his 50-plus year marriage to soul mate and comedic cohort Meara, who died in 2015. And his myriad television spots included everything from "Murder She Wrote" to "Law and Order" — along with 36 appearances alongside Meara on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
Stiller, although a supporting player on "Seinfeld," created some of the Emmy-winning show's most enduring moments: co-creator and model for the "bro," a brassiere for men; a Korean War cook who inflicted food poisoning on his entire unit; an ever-simmering salesman controlling his explosive temper with the shouted mantra, "Serenity now!"
Stiller earned an 1997 Emmy nomination for his indelible "Seinfeld" performance. In a 2005 Esquire interview, Stiller recalled that he was out of work and not the first choice for the role of Frank Costanza, father to Jason Alexander's neurotic George.
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