Jerry Stiller Net Worth

Jerry Stiller's Quotes

• The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.
• Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.
• I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.
• Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.
• During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Interesting Facts about Jerry Stiller

1. Half of the mixed marriage (Jewish/Irish) comedy team of Stiller and Meara active during the 1960s and 1970s, with his wife Anne Meara. He and Meara had two children Ben Stiller and Amy Stiller and two grandchildren by their son's marriage to actress Christine Taylor, Ella Olivia Stiller and Quinlin Dempsey Stiller, before the union was dissolved.
2. Although wife Anne Meara converted to Judaism upon their marriage, the main source of Stiller and Meara's material was the differences in their ethnic backgrounds, epitomized by their famous "Hershey Horowitz/Mary Elizabeth Doyle" routines.
3. Attended and graduated from Seward Park High School in Manhattan, New York City. He attended and graduated from Syracuse University in 1950 with a Bachelor's degree in Speech and Drama. He was a brother in the Tau Delta Phi Fraternity.
4. He and wife Anne Meara appeared on Toast of the Town (1948) as Stiller and Meara every two months for a total of 36 times.
5. Was named as "King of Brooklyn" at the Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival in 2000. His wife, Anne Meara, was named "Queen of Brooklyn" at the same festival.
6. Awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. [October 1999]
7. Has worked with his son, Ben Stiller, on 11 movies to date.
8. In The King of Queens (1998) episode, The King of Queens: Shrink Wrap (2002), his character's father was played by his real-life son, Ben Stiller.
9. Is one of the four actors who appeared in both Hairspray (1988) and Hairspray (2007).
10. Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7018 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 9, 2007.
11. The two sitcoms he regularly appeared on, Seinfeld (1989) and The King of Queens (1998), both aired their series finales on May 14 (1998 and 2007 respectively).
12. He studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village, New York City.
13. On the day he died, the episode he guest-starred on within "In The Heat of the Night" was played on WGN America.
14. Upon his death, he was cremated and his ashes scattered in Hessian Lake located at Bear Mountain State Park in New York.