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As Frank Costanza on Seinfeld, Jerry Stiller was nominated for a 1997 Emmy
Award and won the 1998 American Comedy Award for 'Funniest Male Guest Appearance
in a Television Series'. He currently stars as "Arthur" on the CBS series, King
of Queens.
As Stiller and Meara, Jerry and his wife, Anne were part of The Compass Players
(which later became Second City). They then went off on their own, creating
their own comedy act at David Gordon's Phase II in Greenwich Village, then on to
record breaking engagements at Max Gordon's Blue Angel and The Village Vanguard.
They toured the country playing Mr. Kelly's, The Hungry i, The Crescendo, The
Flamingo, The Sands, working with Count Basie, The original Supremes, Billy
Eckstine, Dianne Carroll. They performed at The Establishment in London. And
appeared thirty-six times on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Broadway has seen Jerry in Hurlyburly, directed by Mike Nichols, The Ritz,
Passlone, The Golden Apple, Unexpected Guests, Three Men on a Horse (with Tony
Randall and Jack Klugman), What's Wrong with This Picture? and Chekhov's The
Three Sisters.
Jerry toured the five boroughs in Joe Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. He
created the role of Launce in John Guare's and Galt McDermott's musical version
of Two Gentlemen of Verona and appeared as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing
with Kevin Kline and Blythe Danner. At Lincon Center, Jerry appeared in David
Mamet's Prairie Du Chien for Greg Mosher. He played Bourbouroche for Walt
Witcover's Masterwork Labratory Theatre. Jerry played Nathan Detroit in Guys and
Dolls in the first musical at the Guthrie Theatre. He played opposite his
daughter Amy in I Ought to be in Pictures and Beau Jest on the Straw Hat Circuit
and starred with Anne in her award winning play, After-Play, at Theatre Four.
Shoeshine, which starred Jerry and his son Ben Stiller, was nominated for an
Academy Award in the 1998 Short Subject Category. Other film appearances include
The Taking of Pelham One-Two-Three, Those Lips-Those Eyes, Airport '75, Nadine,
The Ritz, Hairspray, and The Pickle. Jerry appeared in the HBO film Subway
Stories and he and Anne starred in the Joan Micklin Silver film, The Fish in the
Bathtub. His most recent feature film is The Independent opposite Jeaneane
Garafolo.
On television, Jerry won praise as the charlatan psychoanalyst, Dr. Tamkin,
opposite Robin Williams, in a PBS Great Performance of Saul Bellow's Seize The
Day directed by Fielder Cook and produced by Robert Geller. He also appeared in
The Hollow Boy again for Mr. Geller. He and Anne starred together in The
Detective (part of The Sunset Gang on American Playhouse).
He and Anne have written, performed and produced award winning radio commercials
for Blue Nun Wine, United Van Lines and Amalgamated Bank among others. He also
appeared as Vince Lombardi in Nike ads and in AT&T commercials with his
"Seinfeld" wife, Estelle Harris. Jerry and Anne host an informational video on
the business of acting, entitled So You Want To Be An Actor? Jerry has performed
for Isiah ShefferUs Selected Shorts series, heard on Public Radio reading John
Sayle's At The Anarchist's Convention, and S.J. Perelman's Eine Kleine Mothmusik.
Jerry credits Professor Sawyer Falk at Syracuse University and Esther Porter
Lane at the Henry Street Playhouse as his mentors. He has taught at the Herbert
Berghof Studio and studied with Uta Hagen. He holds a Bachelor of Science in
Speech and Drama from Syracuse University.
Recently, Jerry was honored with the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. In October
1999 The New York Friar's Club honored Jerry Stiller. The televised event
received the highest ratings for any program in the history of the Comedy
Central Network.
Jerry's autobiography, Married to Laughter is published by Simon and Schuster
and the audio version of the book, read by Jerry, was released by Random House.
It has been nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Spoken Word Album in
the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards.
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