Ben Stiller

Ben Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, and film director. He is possibly best known for his roles in the films Meet the Parents and There's Something About Mary. Stiller is son of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, who are both veteran comedians and actors. He was born in New York, New York on November 30, 1965 and raised with frequent visits from his family's Hollywood friends.

Stiller wrote and appeared on Saturday Night Live as a featured performer in 1990. He went on to host and perform in a self-titled comedy sketch show on MTV and then The Ben Stiller Show on the Fox Network in 1992. The show lasted 12 episodes, but is considered by many to be one of the finest (if briefest) sketch comedy vehicles on television. The show also starred (and launched the careers of) his frequent collaborators Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, and Bob Odenkirk.

Stiller directed both Reality Bites and The Cable Guy, to generally mixed reviews. His directorial effort, 2001's Zoolander was well-received, showing he could be a bankable star both behind the camera as well as in front of it.

In the parody self-help book they co-authored, Feel This Book, he and frequent co-star Janeane Garofalo claimed they briefly dated. This is generally considered to be artistic license.

During much of the 1990s, he was involved with actress Jeanne Tripplehorn. In May 2002, he married actress Christine Taylor, whom he met while filming a never-broadcast television pilot for Fox called Heat Vision and Jack, starring Jack Black. Ben and Christine have one daughter, Ella Olivia, born April 10, 2002.

Amy Stiller, Ben's older sister, is also an actor.

Filmography (actor)

  • Madagascar (2005, voice)
  • Meet the Fockers (2004)
  • Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
  • Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
  • Starsky & Hutch (2004)
  • Envy (2004)
  • Along Came Polly (2004)
  • Nobody Knows Anything (2003)
  • Duplex (2003)
  • Legend of the Lost Tribe, TV (2002, voice)
  • Liberty's Kids, TV Series (2002, voice)
  • Orange County (2002, uncredited)
  • The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
  • Zoolander (2001)
  • Meet the Parents (2000)
  • Keeping the Faith (2000)
  • The Independent (2000)
  • Black and White (1999)
  • Mystery Men (1999)
  • The Suburbans (1999)
  • Nobody Knows Anything (1998)
  • Permanent Midnight (1998)
  • Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)
  • There's Something About Mary (1998)
  • Zero Effect (1998)
  • The Cable Guy (1996)
  • Flirting with Disaster (1996)
  • If Lucy Fell (1996)
  • Happy Gilmore (1996)
  • Heavyweights (1995)
  • Reality Bites (1994)
  • The Nutt House (1992, uncredited)
  • Highway to Hell (1992)
  • Stella (1990)
  • That's Adequate (1990)
  • Elvis Stories (1989)
  • Next of Kin (1989)
  • Fresh Horses (1988)
  • Empire of the Sun (1987)
  • Hot Pursuit (1987)

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Amy Stiller, Ben's older sister, is also an actor. Clifton Webb has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6840 Hollywood Boulevard. Ben and Christine have one daughter, Ella Olivia, born April 10, 2002. He is interred in crypt 2350, corridor G-6, Abbey of the Psalms in Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood. In May 2002, he married actress Christine Taylor, whom he met while filming a never-broadcast television pilot for Fox called Heat Vision and Jack, starring Jack Black. He died of a heart attack at his home in Beverly Hills, California, at age seventy-six. During much of the 1990s, he was involved with actress Jeanne Tripplehorn. He retired after making the movie Satan Never Sleeps (1962).

This is generally considered to be artistic license. Webb's elegant taste kept him on Hollywood's best-dressed lists for decades. In the parody self-help book they co-authored, Feel This Book, he and frequent co-star Janeane Garofalo claimed they briefly dated. When Webb's mourning for her continued for what seemed a prolonged period of time, his longtime friend, Noel Coward, is said to have remarked with a bit of exasperation, "It must be tough to be orphaned at seventy-one.". His directorial effort, 2001's Zoolander was well-received, showing he could be a bankable star both behind the camera as well as in front of it. In fact, his character of Mr. Belvedere is said to have been very close to his real life–he had an extreme devotion to his mother, who lived with him until her death at age ninety-one. Stiller directed both Reality Bites and The Cable Guy, to generally mixed reviews. Belvedere and in other movies flaunted his homosexuality, but his scrupulous private life kept him free of scandal.

The show also starred (and launched the careers of) his frequent collaborators Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, and Bob Odenkirk. Webb's comically foppish mannerisms as Mr. The show lasted 12 episodes, but is considered by many to be one of the finest (if briefest) sketch comedy vehicles on television. Thornton, who wants to go and stop a recent revival of his movies on TV, in Dreamboat (1952); John Philip Sousa in Stars and Stripes Forever (1952); the doomed husband of Barbara Stanwyck in the 1953 version of Titanic; and John Frederick Shadwell in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). He went on to host and perform in a self-titled comedy sketch show on MTV and then The Ben Stiller Show on the Fox Network in 1992. Belvedere" features, beginning with Sitting Pretty (1948); the husband of Myrna Loy and father of twelve children in Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); a silent movie star, Bruce Blair, called "Dreamboat," turned college professor, Prof. Stiller wrote and appeared on Saturday Night Live as a featured performer in 1990. He also played the priggish title role in a series of comedic "Mr.

He was born in New York, New York on November 30, 1965 and raised with frequent visits from his family's Hollywood friends. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1949 for Sitting Pretty. Stiller is son of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, who are both veteran comedians and actors. Webb received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1945 for Laura and in 1947 for The Razor's Edge. He is possibly best known for his roles in the films Meet the Parents and There's Something About Mary. His first major motion picture roles came in his middle-age as the classy but villainous radio columnist Waldo Lydecker in the noir classic Laura (1944) and as the elitist Elliott Templeton in The Razor's Edge (1946). Ben Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, and film director. After a few silent movies, he was classified as a character actor and stereotyped as a fussy effete snob.

Hot Pursuit (1987). Despite his impressive Broadway credentials, and some appearances on the London stage, he did not fare as well in Hollywood. Empire of the Sun (1987). Webb introduced George and Ira Gershwin's "I've Got a Crush on You" in Treasure Girl (1928); Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz's "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" in The Little Show (1929); and Irving Berlin's "Not for All the Rice in China" in As Thousands Cheer (1933). Fresh Horses (1988). Over the next twenty-five years, the tall and slender performer, who sang in a clear, gentle tenor, appeared in numerous musicals and worked his way from featured dancer to leading man. Next of Kin (1989). Taking the stage name Clifton Webb, he was a professional ballroom dancer at age nineteen and appeared in about two dozen operas before debuting on Broadway as Bosco in The Purple Road (1913).

Elvis Stories (1989). He sang with the Boston Opera Company when he was seventeen. That's Adequate (1990). He made his stage debut at age seven. Stella (1990). Privately tutored, Webb also studied dance and acting. Highway to Hell (1992). He didn't care for the theatre.".

The Nutt House (1992, uncredited). She dismissed questions about his father, a railroad manager, by saying, "We never speak of him. Reality Bites (1994). In 1892, his formidable mother, Mabelle, moved to New York with her beloved "little Webb," as she called him for the remainder of her life. Heavyweights (1995). He was born Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck in Beech Grove, Indiana, the son of Jacob Grant Hollenbeck (1867-May 2, 1939) and Mabelle A. Parmalee (March 24, 1869-October 17, 1960). Happy Gilmore (1996). Clifton Webb (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966) was an American actor.

If Lucy Fell (1996). Father Bovard. Flirting with Disaster (1996). Satan Never Sleeps (1962) (20th Century Fox) .. The Cable Guy (1996). Robert Dean. Zero Effect (1998). Holiday for Lovers (1959) (20th Century Fox) ..

There's Something About Mary (1998). Horace Pennypacker. Your Friends & Neighbors (1998). Mr. Permanent Midnight (1998). Pennypacker (1959) (20th Century Fox) .. Nobody Knows Anything (1998). The Remarkable Mr.

The Suburbans (1999). Victor Parmalee. Mystery Men (1999). Boy on a Dolphin (1957) (20th Century Fox) .. Black and White (1999). Ewen Montagu. The Independent (2000). Cmdr.

Keeping the Faith (2000). Lt. Meet the Parents (2000). The Man Who Never Was (1956) (20th Century Fox) .. Zoolander (2001). Ernest Gifford. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). Woman's World (1954) (20th Century Fox) ..

Orange County (2002, uncredited). John Frederick Shadwell. Liberty's Kids, TV Series (2002, voice). Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) (20th Century Fox) .. Legend of the Lost Tribe, TV (2002, voice). Robert Jordan. Duplex (2003). Mister Scoutmaster (1953) (20th Century Fox) ..

Nobody Knows Anything (2003). Richard Ward Sturges. Along Came Polly (2004). Titanic (1953) (20th Century Fox) .. Envy (2004). John Philip Sousa. Starsky & Hutch (2004). Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) (20th Century Fox) ..

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004). Thornton Sayre/Dreamboat/Bruce Blair. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004). Prof. Meet the Fockers (2004). Dreamboat (1952) (20th Century Fox) .. Madagascar (2005, voice). Elopement (1951) (20th Century Fox) ... Howard Osborne.

Lynn Belvedere. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951) (20th Century Fox) .. Mr. Charles/Slim Charles.

For Heaven's Sake (1950) (20th Century Fox) .. Frank Bunker Gilbreth. Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) (20th Century Fox) .. Lynn Belvedere.

Belvedere Goes to College (1949) (20th Century Fox) .. Mr. Lynn Belvedere. Sitting Pretty (1948) (20th Century Fox) ..

Elliott Templeton. The Razor's Edge (1946) (20th Century Fox) .. Hardy Cathcart. The Dark Corner (1946) (20th Century Fox) ..

Waldo Lydecker. Laura (1944) (20th Century Fox) .. Business man sharing a room in burning hotel. The Still Alarm (1930) comedy short of Broadway skit (Vitaphone) ..

Maxim. The Heart of a Siren (1925) (First National Pictures) .. Tom Lawrence. New Toys (1925) (First National Pictures) ..

Major Bertie (uncredited). Let Not Man Put Asunder (1924) (Vitagraph) .. Harry Richardson (uncredited). Polly with a Past (1920) (Metro Pictures) ..