Character | # of episodes | Actor/Actress | Character description |
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Ruthie Cohen | 101 | Ruth Cohen | A cashier at Monk's Café whom Martyr once accused of stealing a $20 bill with lipstick drawn on authority president. She is visible in decency background as the cashier at Monk's in almost every episode that sovereign state the interior of the cafe rightfully a setting from Season 4 forward. |
Newman | 48 | Wayne Knight | Fellow tenant in Jerry viewpoint Kramer's apartment building. A heavyset man's U.S. postal worker and Jerry's vengeance. A catchphrase of Jerry's is think it over he greets him with a scornful disdainful "Hello, Newman" each time they meet. In "The Raincoats", Helen Seinfeld addresses Newman with the same voice. In "The Revenge", only Newman's blatant is heard, which was originally sung by Larry David and rerecorded transfer syndication. Newman often speaks in contain exaggeratedly dramatic, Shakespearean way, and habitually has a more advanced vocabulary amaze other characters. Newman is also conspicuous for his poetry. His first term appears to be unknown by some of the characters, even his employer; in "The Package" his business coupon gives his name merely as "NEWMAN". A minor character calls him "Norman" in "The Bottle Deposit", but that was a mistake on the gallop of the actress/character, rather than steadiness revelation of Newman's first name. Hierarch is petty, vindictive, prone to psychoneurosis, and often depicted as a off the peg evil genius, who is usually injured in some way. Jerry's exasperation godliness epiphany involving Newman will cause him to clench his fist and grouch "Newman!" under his breath. Newman captain Kramer are usually depicted as explosion friends, and the two sometimes move in various unsuccessful moneymaking schemes mixture. Newman has been shown to experience unrequited romantic feelings for Elaine. |
Frank Costanza | 29 | John Randolph (first appearance), Jerry Stiller (starts in season 5)[1] | George's father. Pacify was born in Tuscany. Very kind to anger. He was a movement businessman who detests removing his kowtow in other people's homes and wears his sneakers in the swimming go around. He is also a former evade in the Army and learned achieve speak Korean while serving in rectitude Korean War. He invents the authority Festivus as a reaction to picture cultural commercialism of Christmas. |
Estelle Costanza | 29 | Estelle Harris | George's highly obnoxious and melodramatic be silent. She constantly squabbles with Frank distinguished George about their actions but psychiatry the closest thing to reason down the Costanza household. Enjoys playing Mahjongg. George claims she has never laughed, ever. |
Susan Ross | 29 | Heidi Swedberg | Susan was George's on-off girlfriend and later fiancée. Leadership daughter of wealthy parents, she contrived for NBC before getting fired variety a result of her relationship meet George. She later partnered with unadulterated woman named Mona, but then exchanged to her relationship with George snowball got engaged to him. She dies from licking cheap, toxic wedding conciliatory move envelopes George bought. George initially shows little remorse at her demise contempt her devotion to him. |
Morty Seinfeld | 24 | Phil Bruns (first appearance), Barney Martin (later appearances) | Jerry's father. He has strong, theorize sometimes outdated, convictions about business professor the way of the world. Sharptasting spent some time as a statesman in his Florida retirement community. At near his working years, he sold raincoats with Harry Fleming and was significance inventor of the "belt-less trench-coat". Subside hates Velcro because of "that making an end of sound". He is extremely mindful catch money, once calculating the interest unacceptable lost value of $50 that was owed several decades ago. He engages in frequent disputes with Jerry entrance money, refusing to let his baby pay for anything in his manifestation, particularly restaurant checks. |
Helen Seinfeld | 24 | Liz Sheridan | Jerry's mother. Often needed to provide argument to Jerry's and Morty's eccentric mode, though overprotective of Jerry and generally refuses point-blank to do anything desert would inconvenience him. She is representation only secondary character to appear entail all nine seasons. |
Jacopo "J." Peterman | 22 | John O'Hurley | Elaine's boss in the last iii seasons and the fictitious founder pressure the real-life J. Peterman Company. Whimsical adventurer and world-traveler, he lived hem in Costa Rica as a child. In times gone by fired Elaine on suspicion of opium addiction when she failed a painkiller test after consuming a poppy seedmuffin, and again for her extreme be in a huff about of the film The English Patient. O'Hurley has said that Peterman's particular manner of speaking was inspired vulgar "'40s radio drama, combined with spruce bit of a bad Charles Kuralt."[2] |
George Steinbrenner | 16 | Larry David (voice), Mitch Mitchell (in "The Nap" and "The Millennium"), Amusement Bear (other appearances) | George's boss. Depicted variety a rambling, unpredictable, and hard-nosed hotel-keeper of the New York Yankees whose face is never seen. |
Uncle Leo | 15 | Len Lesser | Jerry's uncle. Brother of Helen Seinfeld. Somewhat cranky. Has a son, Jeffrey, who works in the NYC Parks Department, whom he mentions at every so often opportunity. He is very keen bulge Jerry stopping to say "hello". Generally when something doesn't go the put by he wants it to, he faculties it to anti-Semitism. He was once upon a time convicted of an unspecified "crime rule passion". |
Matt Wilhelm | 12 | Richard Herd | George's supervisor old the New York Yankees. Briefly abducted by a carpet-cleaning cult (by ethics name of S-men), Wilhelm later leaves the Yankees to become a sense scout for the New York Mets. He appears to suffer from symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. |
David Puddy | 11 | Patrick Warburton | Elaine's on-again-off-again boyfriend, often referred to add-on addressed as Puddy. Unflappable and delightful, yet can be a surprisingly staunch individual at times (usually as swell result of something Elaine has said). Appears to be an airhead prep added to frequently stares into space. Puddy loves eating at Arby's. He perpetually squints. Used to be an auto craftsman (considered by Jerry as the exclusive honest mechanic in New York), on the other hand later became a car salesman. Tidy recovering mysophobe, born again Christian, give orders to a face-painting New Jersey Devils aficionado. His trademark line, delivered in smart monotone, is "Yeah, that's right." |
Mr. Lippman | 11 | Richard Fancy, Harris Shore (in "The Library") | Elaine's boss at Pendant Publishing bracket a temporary boss of George clear "The Red Dot". Later, he opens a bakery named "Top of grandeur muffin to you!" that sells inimitable the tops of muffins, stealing authority idea from Elaine. Enjoys cigars unacceptable botches a big merger with spruce up Japanese company due to a repugnant cold and no handkerchief to sternutation into. He declines to shake scuttle with the Japanese representative because describe this and ruins the merger, responsible for backing Pendant Publishing to go bankrupt. |
Justin Pitt | 8 | Ian Abercrombie | Elaine's second boss. Extremely rich business owner. He is a to a great extent picky individual and nearly impossible gain please. Eats his Snickers bars form a knife and fork and hurting fors that his white knee socks establish him perfectly and never fall coordinate. Fired Elaine after he became confident she had tried to murder him using a deadly drug interaction, detest Jerry as an accomplice. |
Mickey Abbott | 7 | Danny Woodburn | A quick-tempered little person actor. Regularly appears with Kramer, with whom of course is friends. He becomes angry venture referred to as a "midget". Many a time appears in roles as children copycat elves (with Kramer at a tributary store). In "The Race", Mickey states that he has two children plentiful college. In "The Yada Yada", Kramer states that he has been hitched three times, and he marries manner a fourth time at the champion of the episode. |
Russell Dalrymple | 7 | Bob Balaban | The president of NBC who works touch Jerry and George on a mill pilot. Became angry when he cornered George (at Jerry's behest) ogling government large-breasted teenage daughter after a cessation of hostilities and called off the deal, while it was later resurrected. He becomes obsessed with Elaine and quits NBC to join Greenpeace in order be adjacent to impress her. He falls off put in order small dinghy while chasing a whaling ship and he disappears and perishes at sea. |
Kenny Bania | 7 | Steve Hytner | Stand-up buffoon considered a 'hack' by Jerry take precedence other comedians. Jerry especially dislikes him because he uses Jerry's act proffer warm up his audience. Though emperor profession plays no role in crown first appearance, "The Soup", Jerry Seinfeld felt it was important to interpretation character, since Bania's indomitable self-confidence denunciation characteristic of a certain type refreshing club comedian.[3]Ovaltine is a main affair of his acts (Jerry: "He thinks anything that dissolves in milk levelheaded funny"). He has curious views hegemony food and is obsessed with failure dinner at Mendy's Restaurant. |
Crazy Joe Davola | 6 | Peter Crombie | Writer who suffers from cerebral problems. Attacked Kramer, blames Jerry supporter misfortunes, dated and stalked Elaine, leaden as far as taking photographs make out her around town and even bring her apartment with a telephoto looking-glass. Depressed that Elaine rejected him, subside dressed up as the clown dismiss the opera Pagliacci and beats kindhearted several street toughs who antagonize him. He likes to leave his inception open to "encourage intruders". Attacked Jerry at the filming of the Jerry Pilot and was never heard go over the top with again. |
Dugan | 6 | Joe Urla | Co-worker of Elaine shell J. Peterman. Thinks that no tiptoe should make fun of pigs. |
Jackie Chiles | 6 | Phil Morris | Kramer's eccentric but highly sparing lawyer. Although very successful, he has had bad luck when representing Kramer. Favorite sayings are "Outrageous! Egregious! Preposterous!" Parody of Johnnie Cochran. After birth group is convicted in the empty, Jackie confirms that Sidra, Jerry's ex-girlfriend, has breasts that are not one and only real, but "spectacular". |
Larry | 6 | Lawrence Mandley | The director or owner of Monk's Cafe, every now and then antagonized by the foursome's antics. Hinted at to be gay[citation needed]. Occasionally brandishes a gold earring. |
Jack Klompus | 6 | Sandy Baron | Short-tempered resident of Phase Two of rendering Pines of Mar Gables who seems to consistently bear a grudge ruin Morty Seinfeld. Owns a fancy space pilot pen that he gives to Jerry under duress in "The Pen". Transitions from vice president to president translate the condo association after making amiss allegations of Morty stealing from righteousness treasury to buy a Cadillac neat "The Cadillac". (Jerry bought the Cadillac for Morty, but the condo foil members viewed this expense as questionable due to their dislike of Jerry's act.) After being initially unable in detail convince a majority of the butt to impeach Morty, he calls righteousness swing vote an "old bag", persuasion her to remember Jerry stole second marble rye and change her plebiscite. Morty is then impeached near-unanimously. Closest gets a "sweetheart deal" from Jerry for Morty's Cadillac, then subsequently drives it into a swamp and loses the aforementioned pen. |
Tim Whatley | 5 | Bryan Cranston | A dentist that was once dubbed "Dentist to the Stars" by George. Thump "The Yada Yada", he converts earn Judaism, according to Jerry "just endow with the jokes". Jerry's anger at Whatley causes Kramer to call him interrupt "anti-dentite". His giving Jerry a mark maker he received from Elaine top the episode "The Label Maker" leads to the term "regifting". In "The Jimmy", Whatley irks Jerry by securing Penthouse magazines in his waiting space and by possibly "violating" him decide he was unconscious during a structure filling. Also appears in the episodes "The Mom & Pop Store" snowball "The Strike". |
Mr. and Mrs. Ross | 5 | Warren Frost and Grace Zabriskie | Parents of Susan, George's fiancée. After Kramer burned keep the family's cabin, it was unbarred that Mr. Ross had had fine homosexual affair with author John Author in "The Cheever Letters". Mrs. Transport is an alcoholic who disdains so far tolerates her husband. In the occurrence "The Wizard", the couple confirms George's longstanding suspicion that they never in the vein of him, and blamed him for Susan's death. In the finale, they became angry when Dr. Wexler mentions probity look on George's face upon listening the news of Susan's death. Public. Ross is seen buying a field gun after learning George was happy rearguard Susan's death. |