2017 Jerry Before Seinfeld (TV Special) Self - Jerry's Sister Edit Did You Know?

© Maurizio Gambarini/EPA/Shutterstock He was 70.Alan Merrill, the guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, best known for writing "I Love Rock 'n' Roll, " died March 29. © Josh Brasted/WireImage/Getty Images He was 95.

He was 85.Thomas L. Miller, a longtime TV producer known for hits including "Family Matters," "Full House," "Perfect Strangers" and "Step by Step," died April 5. He was 61.B. He was 51.Ivan Passer, a leading figure of the Czech new wave who directed films including “Cutter’s Way,” died January 9. She was 77.Ann E. Todd, a former child star in the 1930s and ‘40s who appeared in films such as “Intermezzo” and “All This, and Heaven Too" before making her mark in sitcoms during the '50s, died February 7. He was 86.Terry Jones, the Welsh actor, director, author, historian and the founding member of the seminal comedy group "Monty Python", died January 21. Whatever he did, that's it.

She was 52.Rapper Lexii Alijai, best known for using her talents to rap over Kehlani's 2015 hit song "Jealous," died January 1. He was 84.Paula Kelly, Emmy-nominated actress who appeared in NBC’s "Night Court" and ABC miniseries "The Women of Brewster Place", died February 8. It doesn't matter. The pair were also members of the improv group the Compass Players, which later became Second City.Although Meara had in fact converted to Judaism when the couple got married, Stiller and Meara’s material centered on the differences in their ethnic backgrounds, epitomized by their signature “Hershey Horowitz/Mary Elizabeth Doyle” routines. He was 73.Maria Mercader, a longtime journalist and CBS News producer and talent executive died March 26. He was 85.Ken Shimura, a comedian who was a fixture on Japanese television for decades, died March 29. "Seinfeld also shared a tribute, posting a photo of himself holding Stiller and wife Anne Meara's 1967 comedy album "Jerry Stiller's comedy will live forever," he later tweeted. She was 54.Phil May, best known for fronting 1960s band "The Pretty Things", which he formed in 1963 as an R'n'B group, died May 15.

"The truth is that this happened all the time with Jerry Stiller," she wrote.

He said it that way, we're doing it that way," Seinfeld added.Alexander, 60, called his television father "a great actor, a great man, a lovely friend. She was 25.John Prine, the raspy-voiced singer-songwriter whose homespun, witty and insightful country-folk tunes influenced legions of musicians in a career that spanned five decades, died April 7. She was 40.Esther Scott, who appeared in “Boyz N The Hood,” voiced Shodu in the “Ewoks” series and guest starred on dozens of TV series, died February 14. Trivia: Sister/manager of Jerry Seinfeld. He was 72.Terrence McNally, a four-time Tony Award-winning playwright, died March 24. He was 78.Frederick Thomas, best known as his rap alias Fred The Godson, died April 23.

"But Larry just kept mentioning him and finally we brought him in," Seinfeld recalled.Seinfeld went on to share that Stiller was "so perfect" for the role and brought "amazing comedic stuff" to the show.

The New York Times praised his performance, writing, “The cast could not be better… Mr. Stiller, the sole representative of Hollywood’s older, Jewish generation, is a frazzled amalgam of vulgarity and wounded vanity — loonily outfitted (by Ann Roth) in Western gear.”His first on-screen role was in 1956 in a segment of “Studio One in Hollywood.” Later, Stiller was busy in the 1970s guesting on the likes of “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father,” “Love, American Style,” “Phyllis” and “Rhoda”; the ’80s brought guest gigs on “Hart to Hart,” “Archie Bunker’s Place,” “Alice” and “Murder, She Wrote.” The 1990s brought guest roles on “L.A.

He was 96.Marj Dusay, veteran soap opera actress, who starred in "Guiding Light", "Santa Barbara", "All My Children" and "Days of Our Lives", died January 28. He was 85.Adam Schlesinger, a musician and songwriter highly regarded for his work as a member of Fountains of Wayne and an Emmy-winning songwriter for TV’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” died April 1. He was 80.Hal Willner, a record producer famed for his left-of-center tribute albums and concerts, and as the long-time sketch music producer for “Saturday Night Live,” died April 7.