The American actor Jerry Stiller, known in particular for the Seinfeld series , died of natural death at the age of 92 years, announced on Monday his son, actor Ben Stiller. " I am sad to report that my father, Jerry Stiller, died of natural causes ," he said in a tweet. He was a very good great-grandfather and grandfather, and Anne's most devoted husband for about 62 years. He will be greatly missed. I love you dad. "
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Jerry Stiller, whose real name is Gerald Isaac Stiller, and his wife Anne Meara performed on stage on Broadway and on television in the 1960s, writing and performing comedy sketches. He also appeared on Broadway in the frantic farce The Ritz by Terrence McNally in 1975 and in the dark drama Hurlyburly by David Rabe in 1984. Outside Broadway, he starred in The Opera of four in theater and theater. screen, we saw, among others, as a police detective in Les Pirates du métro (1974) and Divine's husband in Hairspray by John Waters (1988).
But Jerry Stiller is best known as an actor and in the United States for his role in the humorous television series Seinfeld , where he played Frank, the irascible father of George Costanza, role which earned him an Emmy Award nomination in 1997 and an award. the American Comedy Award the following year. " Jerry Stiller making Julia Louis-Dreyfus crack always remains one of the funniest scenes I have seen ".
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Jerry Stiller starred in the sitcom A guy from Queens and appeared alongside his son Ben in the movies Zoolander or Women of his dreams (2007).
