TV trivia: Who played Ross and Monicas father, Jack Gellar, on the TV show Friends?
Jack Geller is the father of Ross Geller and Monica Geller and husband to Judy Geller. He is best known for his ill-timed, inappropriate comments, such as addressing a character while in London as a “thieving, would-be-speaking-German-if-it-weren’t-for-us, cheap little man”. He led his in-laws to believe that he’s an attorney, although his line of work is never defined. He secretly smoked cigarettes, claiming that the cigarettes Ross found around the house were Judy’s. Although both Jack Geller and Judy Geller were criticized for favoring Ross Geller over Monica Geller, Jack was the more sympathetic of the two. He constantly referred to Monica as Harmonica. When Monica broke up with serious boyfriend Richard Burke, he consoled her, although he had previously disapproved of her dating his long-time best friend, a man twenty-one years her senior. He also gave her his Porsche, after all objects of her childhood memories were ruined by a flood. In The Last One, Monica names her new baby so
