American Comedian Jerry Stiller, 92, Dies of Natural Causes

American comedian Jerry Stiller, “Seinfeld” actor and father of Ben Stiller, has died of natural causes. He was 92 years old.

“I’m sad to say that my father, Jerry Stiller, passed away from natural causes. He was a great dad and grandfather, and the most dedicated husband to Anne for about 62 years. He will be greatly missed. Love you Dad,” Ben tweeted.

Jerry Stiller started his career in the 1950s with his wife Anne Meara. Some of Stiller’s roles include Frank Costanza in “Seinfeld” and Arthur Spooner in “The King of Queens.”

According to Fox News, Stiller recalled that he didn't have a job and that they didn't see him as the first choice for the role of Frank Costanza. “My manager had retired,” he said. “I was close to 70 years old, and had nowhere to go.”

He was born in Brooklyn in 1927 and went to Seward Park High School.

He appeared with Ben in several films, such as “The Heartbreak Kid” and “Zoolander.”

Stiller wrote an autobiography called “Married to Laughter,” which is “about his 50-plus year marriage to Meara, who died in 2015,” as reported by Fox News.

Stiller and Meara met in 1953. They got married the following year. According to The Guardian, they regularly teamed up for improv sketches – “performing in Las Vegas nightclubs and on The Ed Sullivan Show and other TV programmes, often in character as the squabbling spouses Mary Elizabeth Doyle and Hershey Horowitz, playing upon their Irish Catholic and Jewish cultures.”

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