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JERRY STILLER
(voice of Old Jingle)

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 hit CBS series THE KING OF QUEENS.

Jerry and his wife Anne were part of "The Compass Players" (which later became Second City). Then, as "Stiller and Meara," they performed at David Gordon's Phase II in Greenwich Village. They went on to play record breaking engagements at Max Gordon's Blue Angel and The Village Vanguard. They toured the country playing Mr. Kelly's, The Crescendo, The Flamingo and The Sands, working with Count Basie, the original Supremes, Billy Eckstine and Diahann Carroll. They also performed at The Establishment in London and appeared thirty-six times on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

Jerry made his legit debut in "The Silver Whistle" with Burgess Meredith, then appeared with Lawrence Tibbett and Veronica Lake in the National Company of "Peter Pan." T. Hambleton and Norris Houghton cast him as a resident in the first two seasons at the Phoenix Theatre, where he appeared in "The Golden Apple" and later "Coriolanous" for John Houseman. He worked again for Mr. Houseman at the Stratford Festival.

Broadway has seen Jerry in "Hurlyburly," directed by Mike Nichols, "The Ritz," "Passione," "The Golden Apple," "Unexpected Guests," "Three Men on a Horse," "What's Wrong with This Picture?" and "The Three Sisters."

He toured the boroughs in the first season of Joe Papps's New York Shakespeare Festival. He created the role of Launce in John Guare's musical version of "Two Gentlemen of Verona." He also appeared as Dogberry in "Much Ado About Nothing" with Kevin Kline and Blythe Danner. At Lincoln Center, he appeared in David Mamet's "Prairie Du Chien" for Greg Mosher. He played Bourbouroche for Walt Witcover's Mastwerwork Laboratory Theatre. He also played Nathan Detroit in "Guys and Dolls," the first musical produced 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. Jerry starred with Anne in her award winning play, "After-Play," at Theatre Four Off-Broadway.

"Shoeshine," which starred Jerry and his son Ben Stiller, was nominated for an Academy Award in the 1988 Short Subject Category. Other film appearances include, "The taking of Pelham One-Two-Three," "Those Lips-Those Eyes," "Airport '75," "Nadine," "The Ritz," "The McGuffin," "Hot Pursuit," "Hairspray" and "The Pickle." He and Anne starred in the Joan Micklin Silver film, "The Fish in the Bathtub." Jerry's most recent films include, "On the Line," "Servicing Sara" and "Zoolander." His starring role in "The Independent" opposite Janeane Garofalo garnered rave reviews nationwide.

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," 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). Jerry appeared in the HBO film "Subway Stories" and as the Devil's Advocate in "Tales from the Darkside." He co-starred on the series "Joe and Sons" and "Tattinger's" and has guest starred on "Murder She Wrote," "Law and Order," "L.A. Law," "In the Heat of the Night," "Homicide" and TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL. Recently, Jerry was heard as the voice of Pretty Boy on the Disney animated series, "Teacher's Pet." He will be featured in the animated films "Teacher's Pet" and "Lion King 3."

Jerry and Anne have written, performed and produced award winning radio commercials for Blue Nun Wine, United Van Lines and Amalgamated Bank among many others. Their latest campaign is for Vermeer Liquor. Jerry has appeared as Vince Lombardi in Nike ads, AT&T commercials with his "Seinfeld" wife, Estelle Harris, and for Total Cereal and Glad Bags.

Jerry has performed for Isiah Sheffer's Selected Shorts series, heard on Public Radio reading John Sayle's "At The Anarchist's Convention," S.J. Perelman's "Eine Kleine Mothmusik" and Russel Baker's "Uncle Harold." He and Anne are also featured on the CD "One People, Many Stories," for the Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles. Jerry and Anne host an informational video on the business of acting, entitled "So You Want To Be An Actor?"

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.

Jerry and Anne have been honored by the City of New York with a Crystal Apple Award and are in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Walk of Fame. The most recent honor is the Fourth Annual Alan King Award in American Jewish Humor, given by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Jerry has received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and was the recipient of the first Annual George Burns Memorial Ward by the Lower East Side Festival. He was also awarded a Biffy by the Baltimore film festival and the first Big Apple Orange Award by Syracuse University and is also on their Walk of Fame. In October 1999, Jerry was honored by The New York Friar's Club at their annual roast.

Jerry's autobiography, "Married to Laughter," was published by Simon and Schuster and the audio version of the book, read by Jerry, was released by Random House. The audio version received a 2000 Grammy Award nomination in the Spoken Word category. The paperback version of "Married to Laughter" has also been released.