Frank Costanza
Posted on 16. Sep, 2011 by admin in Characters
He is the father of George Costanza and is married to Estelle Costanza. He is characteristically loud, irascible, neurotic, abrasive and eccentric. He speaks in a highlyidiosyncratic, halting manner.
In Frank’s first appearance in the episode “The Handicap Spot” of season 4, the character was played by John Randolph. At the urging of series creator Larry David, once Stiller had been cast for Frank Costanza, the scenes with Randolph were reshot with Stiller for syndication. Though currently retired, we learn in “The Understudy” that Frank once worked as a salesman selling Christian artifacts and that he is fluent in Korean. He also claims to have spoken to Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon. Frank is an exceptionally goodchef (he spent time as an Army cook with the “Fighting 103rd” during the Korean War), as long as he can overcome his fears of accidentally poisoning people with his cooking (which showed the rebuttal in “The Fatigues”, in which he destroyed his food after seeing Elaine Benes’s co-worker at the J. Peterman Catalog, Eddie Sherman, choking).
His hobbies include listening to Latin American music on vinyl records and collecting issues of TV Guide. He invented an alternative to Christmas known as Festivus, featured in “The Strike”. Frank was also the co-creator of the “Bro” (he proposed the name “Manssiere“), a male bra he developed with Cosmo Kramer in “The Doorman.” Perhaps before the character had been entirely established, Frank was in his first episode, “The Handicap Spot”, a leading member of the United Volunteers, where it is common to give away big screen TV’s.
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