US actor Jerry Stiller, well known for his roles in the television shows Seinfeld and The King of Queens, has died aged 92.
His Emmy Award-winning son Ben announced his father's death on social media, saying his father died of natural causes.
"He was a great dad and grandfather, and the most dedicated husband to Anne for about 62 years," he wrote.
"He will be greatly missed."
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Stiller was a multi-talented performer who appeared in an assortment of movies, playing Walter Matthau's police sidekick in the thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and, Divine's husband Wilbur Turnblad in John Waters' twisted comedy Hairspray.
He also wrote an autobiography, Married to Laughter, about his 50-plus year marriage to soul mate and comedic cohort Anne Meara, who died in 2015.
His myriad television spots included everything from Murder She Wrote to Law and Order — along with 36 appearances alongside Meara on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Stiller was best known in the latter stages of his career for playing the role of Frank Costanza, the short-tempered father of main character George, in the hit television show Seinfeld.
Although a supporting player on Seinfeld, Stiller created some of the Emmy-winning show's most enduring moments: co-creator and model for the "bro," a brassiere for men; a Korean War cook who inflicted food poisoning on his entire unit; an ever-simmering salesman controlling his explosive temper with the shouted mantra, "Serenity now!"
Following that success, he then played the role of Arthur Spooner in the sitcom, The King of Queens.
His life and career took off after he met Meara in 1953.
The seemingly mismatched pair — he a short, stocky Jewish man from Brooklyn, she a tall, Irish Catholic from the Long Island suburbs — shared an immediate onstage chemistry, too.
They were soon appearing on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and working nightclubs nationwide.
The pair also wrote and performed radio commercials, most memorably a series of bits for a little-known wine called Blue Nun.
The duo's ads boosted sales by 500 per cent. Ben Stiller recalled trips with his sister to California when his parents would head west to do television appearances.
The couple went on to appear as a team in dozens of film, stage and television productions.
One of them was After-Play, a 1995 off-Broadway show written by Meara.
He and Meara were both honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California, in 2007.
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