The television show Seinfeld was known for featuring many characters, each with their own special quirks.
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| Character | # of episodes | Actor | Character description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruthie Cohen | 101 | Ruth Cohen | A middle-aged cashier at Monk's cafe whom George accused of stealing a $20 bill from him. She can be seen in the background as the cashier at Monk's in almost every episode that has Monk's cafe in it. |
| Newman | 48 | Wayne Knight | Fellow tenant in Jerry and Kramer's apartment building. Overweight U.S. Postal Worker and Jerry's nemesis. Associate in many of Kramer's schemes. Likes Drake's Coffee Cake and Chunky Candy Bars. Jerry greets him with a disdainful "Hello, Newman" each time they meet. In The Raincoats, Helen Seinfeld speaks to Newman with the same tone. In "The Revenge", we hear only Newman's voice, which was originally voiced by Larry David and rerecorded for syndication. His first name appears to be known by none of the characters, even his employer (in The Package his business card gave his name merely as "NEWMAN"). |
| Frank Costanza | 29 | Jerry Stiller (John Randolph) | George's father. Eccentric and very quick to anger. Former cook in the Army and detests removing his shoes in other people's homes. Speaks Korean. Inventor of the holiday Festivus. Co-creator of the manssiere. |
| Estelle Costanza | 29 | Estelle Harris | George's obnoxious and melodramatic mother. Constantly questions Frank and George's actions. Enjoys playing Mahjong. George claims that she has never laughed. |
| Susan Ross | 29 | Heidi Swedberg | George's fiancee. Daughter of rich parents. Briefly experimented with lesbianism, and worked for NBC before getting fired, both apparently results of her relationship with George. Died from licking cheap, toxic wedding invitation envelopes that George bought. |
| Morty Seinfeld | 24 | Barney Martin (Phil Bruns) | Jerry's father. Has strong convictions. Fittingly, he spent some time as politician in his Florida retirement community. During his working years he sold raincoats with Harry Fleming and was the inventor of the 'belt-less trench-coat'. Hates velcro because of "that tearing sound". |
| Helen Seinfeld | 24 | Liz Sheridan | Jerry's mother. Often needed to provide reason to Jerry's and Morty's eccentric lifestyle. The only Secondary Character to appear in all nine seasons. |
| Jacopo Peterman | 22 | John O'Hurley | Elaine's boss and the founder of The J. Peterman Company. Eccentric world-traveler. Once fired Elaine on suspicion of opium addiction after she failed a drug test due to a poppy seed muffin and again for her dislike for the film, The English Patient. |
| George Steinbrenner | 16 | Larry David (voice), Lee Bear | George's boss. Depicted as rambling, hard-nosed owner of the New York Yankees whose face is never seen. |
| Uncle Leo | 15 | Len Lesser | Jerry's uncle. Brother of Helen Seinfeld. A bit of an old coot. Has a son, Jeffrey, who works in the NYC Parks Department. Is very keen on Jerry stopping to say "hello." Often when something doesn't go the way he wants it to, he attributes it to anti-Semitism. He was once convicted of a "crime of passion." |
| Matt Wilhelm | 12 | Richard Herd | George's supervisor at New York Yankees. Briefly abducted by a carpet-cleaning cult (by the name of S-men), Wilhelm later leaves the Yankees to become head scout for the New York Mets. |
| David Puddy | 11 | Patrick Warburton | Elaine's on-again-off-again boyfriend. Unflappable and calm, yet can be a surprisingly passionate individual at times (usually as a result of something Elaine has said). A bit of an airhead and likes to stare into space. Used to be an auto mechanic but later became a car salesman. Dislikes the term 'grease monkey'. A recovering mysophobe, Born again Christian, and a face painting New Jersey Devils fan. |
| Mr. Lippman | 11 | Harris Shore, Richard Fancy | Elaine's boss at Pendant Publishing. Later, he opens a bakery named 'Top of the muffin to you!' that sells only the tops of muffins, stealing the idea from Elaine. Enjoys cigars and botches a big account with the Japanese due to a nasty cold and no handkerchief to sneeze into. |
| Justin Pitt | 8 | Ian Abercrombie | Elaine's second boss. Extremely wealthy business owner. He is a very picky individual and nearly impossible to please. Eats his Snickers bars with a knife and fork and prefers to wear white knee socks. Fired Elaine after he became convinced she had tried to murder him using a deadly drug interaction, using Jerry as accomplice. |
| Mickey Abbott | 7 | Danny Woodburn | A quick-tempered 'little person' actor. Typically appears with his friend Kramer. Becomes violent if referred to as a 'midget'. Often appears in roles as children or elves (with Kramer at a department store). In The Race, it is revealed that he has two college-age children. |
| Russell Dalrymple | 7 | Bob Balaban | The president of NBC who works with Jerry and George on a television pilot. Had teenage daughter played by Denise Richards, who was ogled by George and Jerry. Becomes obsessed with Elaine and quits NBC to join Greenpeace. He falls off a small dinghy whilst chasing a whaling ship. His crewmates (one of which played by Larry David) cannot find him in the dark waters, and he subsequently perishes at sea. |
| Crazy Joe Davola | 6 | Peter Crombie | Writer for NBC who suffers from mental problems. Attacked Kramer, blames Jerry for misfortunes, dated and stalked Elaine Benes. Depressed that Elaine rejected him, he dressed up like the clown from the opera Pagliacci and beats up several street toughs who antagonize him. Likes to leave his door open to "encourage intruders". |
| Kenny Bania | 7 | Steve Hytner | Stand-up comedian considered a 'hack' by Jerry and other comedians. Jerry especially dislikes him because he uses Jerry's act to warm up his audience. Ovaltine is a main topic of his acts (Jerry- "He thinks anything that dissolves in milk is funny"). Obsessed with eating dinner at Mendy's Restaurant. |
| Dugan | 6 | Joe Urla | Co-worker of Elaine at J. Peterman. Thinks that no one should make fun of pigs. |
| Jackie Chiles | 6 | Phil Morris | Kramer's eccentric lawyer. A very successful lawyer, but has had bad luck when representing Kramer. Favorite sayings are "Outrageous! Egregious! Preposterous!" Parody of Johnnie Cochran. |
| Larry | 6 | Lawrence Mandley | The manager and/or owner of Monk's Cafe, often antagonized by the foursome's antics. Wears a gold earring and is possibly gay. |
| Jack Klompus | 6 | Sandy Baron | Short tempered resident of Phase Two of the Pines of Mar Gables who seems to consistently have a grudge against Morty Seinfeld. Has a cool astronaut pen that he gives to Jerry out of duress. Gets a 'sweetheart deal' from Jerry for Morty's Cadillac, then subsequently drives it into a marsh. |
| Character | Actor | Character description | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Pocitillo | Michael Chiklis | The annoying suburbanite who tells Jerry he will visit him when he's in the city. He gets drunk and calls a hooker to Jerry's apartment while Jerry is out and then leaves her with Jerry when his ride shows up, forcing Seinfeld to pay for her services. | "The Stranded" |
| Sid Fields | Bill Erwin | The cantankerous old man Jerry is assigned to. Kramer and Newman take his old records, and Sid kicks Kramer in the butt when they are leaving. Bill Erwin was nominated for an Emmy for his guest appearance. | "The Old Man" cameo appearance in "The Pilot" |
| Marlene | Tracy Kolis | The annoying cashier girlfriend of George whom she gets dumped by. she then asks out Jerry and begins to leave bizarre messages on his machine, she later dumps him after seeing his act. She also sometimes jumps in pools clothed. | "The Ex-Girlfriend" |
| Alton Benes | Lawrence Tierney | Elaine's hard-nosed father and famous novelist. | "The Jacket" |
| Artie Levine | Ron Steelman | Jerry's cousin who prefers his last name be pronounced Le-vine not Le-veen | "The Stake Out" |
| Ben Cantwell | Robert Donley | The old man George is assigned to visit. | "The Old Man" |
| Ron | Tobin Bell | A record store owner | "The Old Man" |
| Betsy | Megan Mullally | One of George's dates. He attempts to advance their relationship by accompanying her to her aunt's funeral in Detroit. | "The Implant" |
| Brody | Neil Giuntoli | Kramer's movie pirater friend, who packs a gun and eats too much candy. | "The Little Kicks" |
| Meryl | Courteney Cox | Jerry's girlfriend who pretends to be his wife to take advantage of Jerry's discount at the dry cleaners. | "The Wife" |
| Magnus aka Vegetable Lasagna | Frank Van Keeken | Norwegian guy who sits in the plane seat next to Elaine and Puddy and has to put up with incessant fighting. Named after his meal selection on the plane, even though he insists on being called by his real name. Coincidentally, all three later end up in the same taxicab due to a shortage. | "The Butter Shave" |
| Miss Rhode Island (Karen Ann Hanson) | Marguerite MacIntyre | Jerry dates her and accidentally kills her doves, forcing her to sing for the talent contest under Kramer's tutelage, which she does horribly. | "The Chaperone" |
| Hal Kitzmiller | Vince Grant | Elaine dates him and Kramer is obsessed with his last name. Hal doesn't sit on park benches because they're bad for your back. He buys his furniture at "The Lumbar Yard." He enjoys "the walking date," swimming in the East River, and estimates Elaine's height and weight at 5-8, 110 pounds. He accidentally offended Elaine by sending her a customized mattress, which she gave to Kramer, who proceeded to "funk it up" by swimming in the East River and then sleeping on it. | "The Nap" |
| Betsy (warden) | Kathryn Joosten | The warden at a women's prison to which the Susan Ross Foundation made a donation, though she prefers being called by her first name. | "The Little Jerry" |
| Henry Atkins, Postmaster General | Wilford Brimley | He makes it clear to Kramer that he cannot refuse postal mail. He sits on the desk and interrogates Kramer in a parody of his role as Assistant Attorney General Jim Wells in Absence of Malice, in which he did the same to Paul Newman. | "The Junk Mail" |
| John Grossbard | Allan Wasserman | Kramer runs into this old debtor — a former roommate to whom he lent money — at an airport and tries to collect the money owed. When Kramer realizes that Jerry's flight has been redirected providing the opportunity to again confront his former roommate, he says, "listen to the bell Grossbard. It tolls for thee." | "The Airport" |
| Joel Horneck | Kevin Dunn | Jerry's childhood friend, with whom he has nothing in common but keeps insisting on keeping in touch. Joel is self-centered and socially awkward, which also makes him impossible to avoid. At some point, Jerry tried to honestly "break up" with Joel, but made him weep and wallow in self-pity instead. | "Male Unbonding" |
| Gladys Mayo | Victoria Mahoney | Owner of Putumayo and Cinco de Mayo, two retail shops selling southwestern clothing and shoes. Irked by Gladys' inattentiveness when trying to make a purchase at Putumayo, Elaine then marched over to Cinco de Mayo and spent hundreds of dollars on colorful garb, then paraded around in front of Putumayo to show Gladys how much business she had lost. When Elaine learned that Gladys owns both stores, it really stuck in her craw. | "The Millennium" |
| John Germaine | Jeff Yagher | A jazz musician Elaine dates who eventually loses his saxophone playing prowess after having done "everything" with Elaine. | "The Rye" |
| Milos | Mark Harelik | A tennis equipment store owner, who sells Jerry a $200 tennis racket but is later revealed as an utterly incompetent player. Afraid of having his reputation ruined, Milos offers his wife to Jerry, and later asks Jerry to take a dive in a tennis game. | "The Comeback" |
| Donna Chang | Angela Dohrmann | White woman who people think is Chinese, originally named Changstein. | "The Chinese Woman" |
| Jean-Paul Jean-Paul | Jeremiah Birkett | A New York City Marathon runner from Trinidad and Tobago whose life is made miserable by Jerry. | "The Hot Tub" |
| Frank Costanza's lawyer | Larry David | He doesn't follow trends and wears a cape. He stops Noreen from committing suicide. Introduces himself as "Frank Costanza's lawyer". | "The Chinese Woman" |
| Pam | Kim Myers | Jerry's girlfriend whom Kramer falls in love with. | "The Soul Mate" |
| The Doorman | Larry Miller | An arrogant doorman at Mr. Pitt's apartment building tricks Jerry into watching the door for him. He berates Jerry for looking down at him because he was a doorman, even though Jerry wasn't. | "The Doorman" |
| Stan, the Caddy | Armin Shimerman | Kramer's Senior Tour golf trainer who missed the cut in the trial of Sue Ellen Mischke. | "The Caddy" |
| Fragile Frankie Merman | Dana Gould | Jerry's friend from summer camp, a.k.a. the "summer George". He is known for running into the woods whenever he's upset. | "The Junk Mail" |
| Luis | Miguel Perez | Cuban Diplomat who trades several boxes of Cuban cigars for Kramer's "lucky" jacket. Later. Luis, Kramer and two other Cubans go golfing. | "The Cheever Letters" |
| Lorraine Catalano | Judy Kain | Works in Jerry's uncle's office. Jerry bumps into her at the Chinese restaurant but cannot remember who she is, until Elaine tricks her into introducing herself. | "The Chinese Restaurant" |
| Ned Isakoff | Todd Kimsey | Elaine's well-read communist boyfriend, whom she got blacklisted from the Chinese restaurant Hop Sing's by "naming names". He is also indirectly responsible for causing George to date a woman who posted an ad in the Daily Worker (a communist newspaper), and for nearly turning Kramer into a communist and encouraging him to quit his department store Santa job with Mickey Abbott. | "The Race" |
| Sharon | Paula Marshall | The New York University reporter who writes a story about Jerry and George being gay. | "The Outing" |
| Kevin, Gene, Feldman and Vargas | Tim DeKay (Kevin, 2 episodes), Kyle T. Heffner (Gene), Pat Kilbane (Feldman), Mark S. Larson (Vargas) | The Bizarro Jerry, George, Kramer and Newman[1] | "The Bizarro Jerry" |
| Geoffrey Harhaarwood | Eric Christmas | The assistant wardrobe man on Spartacus. He assists in the revitalization of the Alex Theatre and has an unusual fascination with buttons. | "The Gum" |
| Sheila | Alexandra Wentworth | Jerry's girlfriend who calls him "Shmoopie" as a term of endearment (as he does with her) and is overly affectionate in public. | "The Soup Nazi" |
| The Pig Man | Uncredited cameo | While in the hospital, Kramer snoops around and comes across what he thinks is the result of a government experiment: a half pig, half man. In reality, just a "fat little mental patient". | "The Bris" |
| Members of the Houston Astros front office | Leon Russom ("Clayton"), Ernie Lively ("Zeke"), Charles Cyphers ("Gardner") | George has a meeting with the Astros about the possibility of inter-league play. They always call everyone a "bastard" or "son of a bitch". George and Jean-Paul start using the terms and get in trouble. | "The Hot Tub" |
| Members of the New York Mets front office | Michael Laskin ("Minkler"), Bruce Jarchow ("Mooney") | The Mets make an offer to George for a vacant front office position at Shea Stadium. But in order for the Mets to hire George, they allude to the catch: He has to get fired from the Yankees first. In the end, however, despite George's valiant attempts to make Steinbrenner fire him, Wilhelm walks in and takes the blame. Wilhelm is trying to get fired to get the Mets job as well, which he does. | "The Millennium" |
| Dr Cooperman aka The Assman | Lou Cutell | A proctologist who has his 'Assman' vanity license plates issued to Kramer by mistake. It is discovered, when Jerry and Kramer visit the doctor's office, that the real Assman has a practice there. When asked by Kramer if the doctor is indeed the Assman, the doctor gives a 'knowing' wink. | "The Fusilli Jerry" |
| Denim Vest | Kevin McDonald | A character named after his questionable taste in fashion. Elaine's network of fake phone numbers (one of them H&H Bagels) comes undone because of him. | "The Strike" |
| Shaky the Mohel | Charles Levin | After circumcising Jerry's finger during a bris, he blames Jerry, claiming he flinched. Jerry later derisively refers to him as "Shakey the Mohel" and claims that the mohel got his license from a matchbook. | "The Bris" |
| Manya | Rozsika Halmos | A relative of Jerry's who dies shortly after Jerry makes a disparaging comment about people who owned ponies as a child. She had stated that she owned a pony in Poland before immigrating to America. | "The Pony Remark" |
| Uncle Mac | Joe George | Jerry's uncle who was writing an autobiography. | "The Stake Out" |
| The Mechanic | Uncredited | George accuses a mechanic at David Puddy's Saab dealership of stealing his Twix. He says he probably has a short, mono-syllabic name like Kip or Ned. | "The Dealership" |
| Tor Eckman | Stephen Tobolowsky | A holistic healer who turns George's complexion purple instead of healing his tonsillitis. | "The Heart Attack" |
| Jimmy | Anthony Starke | Constantly refers to himself in the third person. Holds a grudge against Kramer for spilling water on the floor, causing him to slip and hurt himself. "Jimmy's down!" George starts to refer to himself in the third person due to Jimmy's speaking. | "The Jimmy" |
| Jason "Stanky" Hanke | James Spader | A recovering substance abuser who refuses to apologize to George as part of his Alcoholics Anonymous ninth step. Hanke had refused to loan George a sweater because he said George would have stretched out the neckhole. | "The Apology" |
| Melissa | Kathleen McClellan | Jerry's girlfriend who likes always to be naked while in his apartment, until he does the same and proposes to do some nude belt-sanding ("This isn't good naked"). | "The Apology" |
| Joel Rifkin | Anthony Cistaro | Elaine's boyfriend who has the same name as infamous serial killer (in real life) Joel Rifkin. Elaine tries to get him to change his name. | "The Masseuse" |
| Raymond | Jeff Lester | A male masseur who causes George to become extremely uncomfortable and to question his own sexuality. (George: "I think it moved.") | "The Note" |
| Roy the Dentist | Ralph Bruneau | A friend of Jerry's who agrees to write notes stating that Jerry, George and Elaine need massages so they can be reimbursed for treatment. He is later charged with insurance fraud, but remains friendly to Jerry. | "The Note" |
| The Maître d' | James Hong | In a Chinese restaurant, the maître d' keeps Jerry, Elaine and George waiting for a table for the whole episode. After the three finally leave in disgust, he looks up, grins, and cries out, "Seinfeld...four!" He also inadvertently complicates George's relationship with Tatiana after mistakenly asking for Cartwright when she phones. | "The Chinese Restaurant" |
| Darryl | Samuel Bliss Cooper | Elaine's "interracial" boyfriend who ultimately turns out to be white; (Darryl to Elaine: "So, we're just a couple of white people?") | "The Wizard" |
| Evie | Bridget Sienna | The cleaning lady that George has sex with in his office. | "The Red Dot" |
| Sylvio | Jon Polito | The superintendent of Jerry, Kramer and Newman's building. He tries to evict Newman from the building for reversing his peephole, but Kramer persuades him not to. Later in that episode it is found out that Newman is having an affair with his wife. | "The Reverse Peephole" |
| Marcelino | Miguel Sandoval | A bodega owner who posts a check Jerry bounced, offering to take it down if the rooster Little Jerry Seinfeld wins a cockfight. In "The Millennium," Kramer mentions that Marcelino is 1/64th Mayan. | "The Little Jerry" |
| Phil | Louis Mustillo | Jerry and Kramer's neighbor who dislikes Jerry because Jerry wouldn't let him into the apartment building for fear of robberies. Phil blames Jerry for the death of his parrot. | "The Strongbox" |
| Claire the Waitress | Lee Garlington | In the pilot episode, Claire was cast as the female regular character; however, she was replaced by Elaine in all subsequent episodes. | "The Seinfeld Chronicles" |
| Carl Farbman | Dave Pierce | Furniture designer who Elaine wishes would design shoes. | "The Checks" |
| Jack The Wiz | Toby Huss | The spokesman for Nobody Beats the Wiz who wears a crown and chants "Nobody beats me, because I'm the Wiz! I'm the Wiz!" | "The Junk Mail" |
| Eddie Sherman | Ned Bellamy | A J. Peterman mail room employee whom Elaine promotes rather than fires because she is intimidated by his threatening manner. | "The Fatigues" |
| Alex | Melinda Clarke | One of Jerry's girlfriends who loves hairless dogs | "The Muffin Tops" |
| Victoria | Dedee Pfeiffer | The woman in Monk's who orders the same lunch as George, and introduces George to her Uncle so that he can get his job with The New York Yankees. | "The Opposite" |
| Gavin | Joseph Maher | An apparently inebriated airplane seatmate of Jerry's who has a medical emergency and asks Jerry to watch his dog, Farfel, then doesn't show up to reclaim the maddening animal for days. | "The Dog" |
| Mary Anne | Rena Sofer | Works for the New York Visitors Center. Engages George Costanza in discussion assuming he is a tourist. | "The Muffin Tops" |
| Lola | Donna Evans | Woman in a wheelchair with whom Kramer falls in love after visiting her in the hospital. Lola later breaks up with him after he and George buy her a used wheelchair. She is later seen screaming and rolling down a hill in her wheelchair, which she cannot stop due to bad brakes. | "The Handicap Spot" |
| Phil Titola | Mark Tymchyshyn | After being set up on a blind date with him, Elaine reported that during the date he "took IT out." | "The Stand-In" |
| Lou Filerman | Brent Hinkley | The "sidler", works in Elaine's office and appears behind her, sharing credit for her efforts. | "The Merv Griffin Show" |
| Todd Gack | John D'Aquino | Goes out with Elaine without actually asking her. He sells Jerry cigars which turn out to be Peruvian. Kramer attempts to pay him back in spare change. | "The Calzone" |
| Actor | Description |
|---|---|
| Norman Brenner | Appeared in speaking roles in 5 episodes, including "Ian" in "The Wig Master" and "Man at Airport" in "The Limo". He appears in the background in more than 30 episodes, which can all be seen at wheresnorman.com.[2] |
'"Kim'" Appeared as Frank Costanza's Korean mistress during the Korean War
| Portrayal | Actor | Character description | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| José Carreras | John Lizzi | Referred to as "the other guy" (a member of The Three Tenors, along with Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti), as well as "Mr. Camaro" and "Mr. Casea" due to his (in-show) bad pensmanship. | "The Doll" |
| Fidel Castro | Michael Sorich | Offers one of his players to the Yankees through George, who calls him "El Presidente" and "El Comandante" | "The Race" |
| Saddam Hussein | Amjad J. Qaisen,[3] voice by Larry David | Suspected to be the Iraqi dictator by George and Kramer. Spoke with a British accent. | "The Dinner Party" |
| John F. Kennedy, Jr. | Voice only, by Larry David | Elaine's would-be heartthrob who ends up having sex with the virgin. | "The Contest, "The Finale" |
| Calvin Klein | Nicholas Hormann | Hires Kramer to be an underwear model. (Only referred to as "Calvin", never stating his last name or official company position) | "The Pick", "The Pilot, Part 2" |
| Monica Seles | Uncredited | Run over by Kramer volunteering as a "ball man" | "The Lip Reader" |
| George Steinbrenner | Lee Bear, voice by Larry David | Owner of the NY Yankees, and George's boss | Many |
| Character | Owner | Description | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barry | The Zoo | Barry, a chimpanzee, throws a banana peel at Kramer, but Kramer throws it back. As a result, Barry curtails his auto-erotic behavior, so Kramer is asked to apologize to the monkey. | "The Face Painter" |
| Farfel | Gavin, an airplane passenger (played by Joseph Maher) | Jerry is stuck taking care of the incessantly barking dog (bark by Tom Williams) when Gavin has to be rushed to the hospital. | "The Dog" |
| Little Jerry Seinfeld | Kramer | A rooster that Kramer enters into a cockfight at Marcelino's bodega. | "The Little Jerry" |
| Pequita | Antonio the Busboy | A cat that escapes the busboy's apartment during a visit from George and Kramer. She later returns, and George is forced to feed her while Antonio recovers from injuries sustained during a brawl. | "The Busboy" |
| Ralph[4] | Kessler (Kramer) | A dog owned by Kramer (who was called Kessler in the first episode), he was used to justify a stand-up routine about dogs that ultimately was cut. | "The Seinfeld Chronicles" |
| Rusty | Dennis, a hansom cab driver (played by Don Amendolia) | Horse that Kramer feeds Beef-A-Reeno to shortly before taking Susan's parents for a ride. The horse's extreme flatulence causes the ride to be cut short. | "The Rye" |
| Smuckers | Man in the park (played by Brian Blondell) | Kramer's distrust of doctors leads him to use this dog to get medication from a veterinarian for his own cough. | "The Andrea Doria" |
| Fredo | Phil | After not letting Phil into his building due to a number of recent break-ins, Jerry learns that he lives on the same floor as the owner of Fredo, the bird. Later in the episode Kramer and Jerry must dig up the feathered animal to reclaim Kramer's spare key which Fredo has accidentally eaten. | "The Strong Box" |
| Roxy | Elaine's neighbor | The incessantly barking dog who lives in a courtyard right outside Elaine's window, keeping her awake and consequently making her harm her vocal cords by yelling at him. Desperate, she hires a hitman to eliminate Rodsy; however, the hitman turns out to be Newman, whose visible disdain for dogs makes Elaine reconsider the deal. Finally, Elaine, along with Newman and Kramer, drives the dog upstate to drop it off next to a house. Surprisingly, Roxy finds its way back, resulting in its owner pressing charges against the three. | "The Engagement" |
Many actual people have made appearances on Seinfeld, often playing themselves.
In addition, Seinfeld makes allusions in dialogue to real people, most notably Mickey Mantle.
| Actor | Description | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| Jodi Baskerville | A reporter on Hard Copy, waiting at the Paramount adjacent to Madison Square Garden reporting on the first public appearance of Donald O'Brien, the leader of the Aryan Union. | "The Limo" |
| Candice Bergen | Playing Murphy Brown meeting her new secretary, Steven Snell (played by Kramer). | "The Keys" |
| Corbin Bernsen | George made a trip with Jerry to appear on The Tonight Show and he ran into Bernsen there. George tells him his idea for the perfect L.A. Law episode, and Bernsen berates him on the air. | "The Trip, Part 1" and "Part 2" |
| Pat Cooper | The comedian and entertainer who sponsored Jerry's membership at the Friar's Club and who readily dismisses George as not "being in show business". | "The Friars Club" |
| Jim Fowler | The animal expert and frequent talk show guest brings a hawk to the Merv Griffin Show set in Kramer's apartment. Calls George an 'idiot' for bringing a squirrel on the set and riling up his hawk. | "The Merv Griffin show" |
| Rudy Giuliani | Campaigns for Mayor of New York City with a platform that includes cracking down on frozen yogurt shops that falsely claim their yogurt is nonfat. | "The Non-Fat Yogurt" |
| Bryant Gumbel | Jerry wears the puffy shirt onto the Today show, and host Gumbel says, "I'm sorry, it is just a very unusual shirt. It could be kind of a whole new look for you...you know, you could be kind of like the pirate comedian." | "The Puffy Shirt" |
| Keith Hernandez | Jerry and George met the New York Mets player in the locker room of their health club. He is a big fan of Jerry's comedy and he becomes awkwardly entangled with Elaine and Jerry. Kramer and Newman hate him, though, and they accuse him of spitting on them after a game (Newman recalls that it was June 14, 1987, Mets/Phillies, in which the Mets blew a ninth-inning lead and caused the Phillies to rally for the win). Jerry meticulously proves their theory is false, JFK style (with Wayne Knight (Newman) assuming the position occupied by Texas governor John Connally, the same position Knight occupied in the scene from the movie). They later find out that it was Hernandez' teammate, relief pitcher Roger McDowell, who had spit on them instead as revenge for Newman & Kramer pouring beer on his head throughout the game. Kramer and Newman apologize to Hernandez, and they help him with his moving. | "The Boyfriend, Part 1" and "Part 2", "The Finale" |
| Russ Leatherman | The Moviefone man. He shows up at Kramer's door and busts Kramer for stealing his business. | "The Pool Guy" |
| Jay Leno | Jerry appears on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. | "The Shower Head" |
| David Letterman | Talking on the phone to Jerry, telling him he has been bumped from the show, due to Jerry's bad review of his performance at a junior high school assembly. | "The Abstinence" |
| Roger McDowell | Appeared alongside Keith Hernandez, and was revealed to be the "second spitter" that spat on Kramer and Newman. | "The Boyfriend, Part 2" |
| Bette Midler | While playing catcher for the softball team from her Broadway show, Rochelle, Rochelle: The Musical, Midler is run down by George on a decisive play at the plate. While she recuperates, Kramer becomes her personal handler and gushes, "You are so freaking talented!" | "The Understudy" |
| Keith Morrison | From 1986 to 1992 Morrison was the anchor for KNBC-TV news. In 1992 he returned to Canada to host Canada AM on CTV. He appears as a TV news anchor who Jerry and George see on a television monitor backstage at The Tonight Show, but the on-screen caption says he is reporting for "Action News." | "The Trip, Part 1" and "Part 2" |
| Paul O'Neill | Kramer tells him he has promised a sick boy that O'Neill will hit two home runs in that day's game. O'Neill gets one home run and an "inside-the-park home run", which was ruled to actually be a triple with an error. Despite this, Kramer insists, "Come on, Bobby, that's just as good!" | "The Wink" |
| Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford | Kramer appears on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee to promote his coffee table book about coffee tables. The show was abruptly stopped due to Kramer spitting coffee on Kathie Lee's dress ("All over my Kathie Lee Casuals!"). | "The Opposite" |
| Geraldo Rivera | Hosts his own show which features the news story about the trial of the four (Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer) who were arrested for not assisting a man involved in a carjacking in Latham, Massachusetts. | "The Finale" |
| Al Roker | Swipes Jerry's gyro on the subway while Elaine is holding a TV Guide with his picture on the cover. | "The Cigar Store Indian" |
| Fred Savage | Kramer runs into the former The Wonder Years star at a cafe in Los Angeles, and tries to pitch his script. Savage pegs Kramer as a psycho and runs out of the cafe. | "The Trip, Part 1" and "Part 2" |
| Buck Showalter and Danny Tartabull | After giving Tartabull some tips on his swings, George convinces Yankees manager Showalter to switch from polyester to cotton uniforms ("The Chaperone"); George, on his way to a public television fund raiser with Danny Tartabull, delays Tartabull's promised appearance in order to take a detour to chase down a driver that he (wrongly) believes gave them the finger. | "The Pledge Drive" |
| Marisa Tomei | Had a major crush on George while he was engaged to Susan Ross, because she's attracted to "short, quirky and bald" men. | "The Cadillac, Part 1" and "Part 2" |
| Mel Tormé | The "Velvet Fog" himself sings at an AMCA charity fundraiser, when Kramer is mistaken for a mentally challenged person. | "The Jimmy" |
| Alex Trebek (archive footage) | George is watching an episode of Jeopardy! | "The Abstinence" |
| Jon Voight | Bit Kramer's arm; George thinks he bought a Chrysler LeBaron convertible formerly owned by the famous actor, but it was in fact previously owned by John Voight, a local dentist. | "The Mom & Pop Store" |
| Raquel Welch | Gets fired by Kramer from the Scarsdale Surprise play for not moving her arms when she tapdances ("She's like a gorilla up there"). Welch subsequently beats Kramer up and later cat-fights with Elaine. | "The Summer of George" |
| Jane Wells | The CNBC business reporter appears as a reporter on Geraldo Rivera's show. | "The Finale" |
| George Wendt | George also runs into him at The Tonight Show. He suggests they change the setting of Cheers because "it's enough with the bar already." Wendt and Corbin Bernsen make George the butt of their jokes on The Tonight Show, much to George's chagrin. | "The Trip, Part 1" and "Part 2" |
| Bernie Williams and Derek Jeter | During his tenure as assistant to the Yankees' traveling secretary, George is temporarily brilliant from lack of sex and teaches them how to hit. | "The Abstinence" |
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