Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara: Stars

February 12, 2007

The Hollywood "Walk of Fame" laid down it's 2,328th star today, for veteran Hollywood couple Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller. The two have been married more than 50 years, and have two children, actors Ben Stiller and Amy Stiller.

The whole family was on hand for the ceremony, including actor Jason Alexander, who played Stiller's son Geroge Costanza on the long-running "Seinfeld." Stiller now plays a cantankerous father-in-law on CBS' ''The King of Queens.''

Meara has been nominated four times for an Emmy, including for outstanding lead actress for a drama for her title role in the short-lived 1975 CBS legal drama ''Kate McShane.''

Stiller and Meara were members of the improvisational company The Compass Players, then started an act which led to 36 appearances on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' and countless nightclub and theater appearances.

Stiller and Meara were the fourth married couple to receive a joint star on the Walk of Fame, after Sonny and Cher, television's Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, and radio's Fibber McGee and Molly (Jim and Marian Jordan), according to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which oversees the Walk of Fame.