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Jerry Stiller was so much more than a sitcom star

JL;DR SUMMARY Jerry Stiller, who passed away in May 2020, was much more than his famous roles on 'Seinfeld' and 'King of Queens.' A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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BrooklynJewish ActorsTheaterDramaSeinfeldComedyTelevisionJerry StillerAnne MearaKing Of Queens

Places mentioned

Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Stiller was born in Brooklyn to a family of modest means."
Manhattan, New York, United States
"Yet when he arrived in Manhattan after graduation, Stiller began an series of highly serious theatrical ventures."
New York, United States
"No matter that a February 1997 issue of New York Magazine, sneered at him as seemingly a reject from the Yiddish theater."
Frampol, Lublin, Poland
"His mother a homemaker who had emigrated from Frampol, Poland, a town that appeared in fictionalized form in Isaac Bashevis Singers Gimpel the Fool and A Tale of Three Wishes."

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