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Fred Stoller (born March 19, 1958) is an American actor, stand-up comedian and author. He is best known for portraying Gerard on Everybody Loves Raymond, the voice of Rusty in the Playhouse Disney series Handy Manny and the voice of Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy in the PBS Kids’s series, WordGirl.
Stoller was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. He has a sister, Cindy, six years his senior, and is Jewish. Stoller attended Kingsborough Community College before leaving to pursue comedy full time.
Stoller had worked as a stand-up comedian in nightclubs since the early 1980s at the time of his first television appearance, in 1987, when he appeared on Stand-Up America and in 1989 on The Young Comedians Special alongside six other comedians.
He gained recognition for his frequent appearances as Gerard on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, Mr. Lowe in Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide and as Sheldon Singer, the nephew of Harold Gould’s deli-owning character, on the short-lived sitcom Singer & Sons (the last show, which ran for four episodes, remains Stoller’s only series regular work in his career). He has also made guest appearances…
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