Gerald Isaac Stiller spent many years as part of the comedy duo Stiller and Meara with his wife, Anne Meara, to whom he was married for over 60 years until her death in 2015. Stiller saw a late-career resurgence starting in 1993, playing George Costanza's father Frank on the sitcom Seinfeld, and in movies such as Zoolander, Hot Pursuit and The Heartbreak Kid with his son Ben Stiller
