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Ben Stiller
Actor, Director, Producer. b. New York, NY, November 30, 1966. Son of performers Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. e. UCLA. Made short film parody of The Color of Money, called The Hustler of Money which landed him work on Saturday Night Live. Acting debut in 1985 B’way revival of The House of Blue Leaves. |
PICTURES: Hot Pursuit, Empire of the Sun, Fresh Horses, Next of Kin, That’s Adequate, Stella, Highway to Hell, Reality Bites (also dir.), Heavyweights, Get Shorty, Flirting With Disaster, The Cable Guy (also dir.), If Lucy Fell, Permanent Midnight, Zero Effect, There’s Something About Mary, Your Friends & Neighbors, Permanent Midnight, The Suburbans, Mystery Men, Black and White, The Independent, Keeping the Faith, Meet the Parents, Zoolander, The Royal Tenenbaums, Run Ronnie Run (as himself), Duplex (also prod.), What Makes Sammy Run (writer, prod. & dir.), Along Came Polly, Starsky and Hutch (also exec. prod.), Envy, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (also prod.), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, You’ll Never Wiez in this Town Again (documentary), Meet the Fockers, Madagascar (voice), Danny Roane: First Time Director, School for Scoundrels, Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (also exec. prod., prod.), The Mirror, Blades of Glory (prod. only), Night at the Museum, Used Guys (also prod.), Madagascar 2 (voice), The Heartbreak Kid, The Marc Pease Experience, The Ruins (prod. only), Tropic Thunder (also dir., prod., s.p.), Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (voice), The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (doc., prod.), Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian, The Marc Pease Experience, The Trial of the Chicago 7 (dir.), Submarine (exec. prod.), Greenberg, Little Fockers, Megamind (exec. prod., voice), The Big Year (prod.), 30 Minutes or Less (prod.), Hollywood Renegade (doc., exec. prod.), Tower Heist, While We're Young, Madagascar 3 (voice), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Neighborhood Watch.
TELEVISION: Movies: The House of Blue Leaves, Working Trash, Derek Zoolander: Male Model (short), Derek Zoolander University (short), Heat Vision and Jack (exec. prod. & dir.), Mission Improbable (short), Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Event for Autism Education, Elmo's Christmas Countdown (voice), The Station (dir., exec. prod.). Series: Saturday Night Live (also writer), The Ben Stiller Show (also creator, dir., writer; Emmy Award as writer 1993), Liberty’s Kids: Est. 1776 (voice), Prehistoric Planet (narr., voice), Extras (Emmy nom. 2006), Arrested Development (recurring role), Stiller & Meara (episodes dir., prod.).Documentaries/Specials: House of Blue Leaves, Colin Quinn Back in Brooklyn (dir., writer).
Guest: More than 170 appearances.
