Jerry Stiller

Comedian and actor Jerry Stiller first rose to fame in the '60s as half of the comedy team of Stiller & Meara before enjoying a career resurgence in the '90s on television. Gerald Isaac Stiller was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 8, 1927. After completing high school, Stiller served in the military during the latter years of World War II. Once he returned home, he enrolled at Syracuse University, where he received a bachelor's degree in speech and drama in 1950. He set out to make a career as an actor, taking work where he could get it, and appeared in a 1953 Broadway produ...