--- title: 'Seinfeld' Cast Sends Well-Wishes to Terminally Ill Fan description: Fan James Calder reached out to 'Seinfeld' stars for his terminally ill father's birthday gift. canonical: https://time.com/4131028/seinfeld-cast-fan-videos/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-01T17:10:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:27:15.615Z og:title: Watch the 'Seinfeld' Cast Send Well-Wishes to Terminally Ill Fan og:description: Fan reached out to stars for his terminally ill father's birthday gift og:url: https://time.com/4131028/seinfeld-cast-fan-videos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt320517547efde457/698873438e0601ebd24638dd/julia-louis-dreyfus-seinfeld-fan-well-wishes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2053 og:image:height: 1155 og:image:alt: 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Press Room og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the 'Seinfeld' Cast Send Well-Wishes to Terminally Ill Fan twitter:description: Fan reached out to stars for his terminally ill father's birthday gift twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt320517547efde457/698873438e0601ebd24638dd/julia-louis-dreyfus-seinfeld-fan-well-wishes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the _Seinfeld_ Cast Send Well-Wishes to Terminally Ill Fan > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly Dec 1, 2015 5:10 PM UTC  Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus poses in the press room at the 67th annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 20, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (LaVeris/FilmMagic) Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus poses in the press room at the 67th annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 20, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (LaVeris/FilmMagic) (LaVeris/FilmMagic) by [Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly Dec 1, 2015 5:10 PM UTC When it came time for James Calder to think up a birthday gift for his terminally ill father this year, he went big — _really_ big: He reached out to [_Seinfeld_](http://www.ew.com/topic/seinfeld)cast members and asked them to send over video messages. And they did. Calder’s father, Jim, died of lung cancer just a few days before his 67th birthday. Before his death, Jim’s family showed him videos that Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John O’Hurley, Wayne Knight, Larry Thomas, Patrick Warburton, and more sent in. “He was shocked and mystified about how we were able to reach the _Seinfeld_ cast members,” Calder wrote for [The](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-calder/seinfeld-cast-will-restor%5Fb%5F8631868.html)[ Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-calder/seinfeld-cast-will-restor%5Fb%5F8631868.html). “He really felt the love and support.” Most of the cast members stayed in character for the videos, but Louis-Dreyfus sent a heartfelt message as herself. “You have a wonderful son who clearly adores you, and so congratulations on that,” she says in the video. “You did that very well … Happy birthday. I hope it’s a great one, and I’m wishing you the very best.” “Some of the cast members not only made videos with great birthday messages, but they were creative, thoughtful, and sincere,” Calder wrote. “These wonderful people helped to honor and celebrate my father’s birthday and provided a much needed distraction during an extremely difficult time for my family. Their kindness and compassion has humbled us to our core.” Read Calder’s full story [here](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-calder/seinfeld-cast-will-restor%5Fb%5F8631868.html), donate to the American Cancer Society on behalf of his father [here](http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pxfid=1958760&fr%5Fid=9910&pg=fund&s%5Flocale=en%5FUS&et=LD20c79RpUKicGse2pzFbQ&s%5FtafId=136161), and watch some of the videos below. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/30/seinfeld-cast-videos-terminally-ill-fan) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4131028/seinfeld-cast-fan-videos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4131028/seinfeld-cast-fan-videos/"},"headline":"Watch the Seinfeld Cast Send Well-Wishes to Terminally Ill Fan","datePublished":"2015-12-01T17:10:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:15.615Z","description":"Some even did it in character","url":"https://time.com/4131028/seinfeld-cast-fan-videos/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Seinfeld","celebrity","Julia Louis-Dreyfus"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt320517547efde457/698873438e0601ebd24638dd/julia-louis-dreyfus-seinfeld-fan-well-wishes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt320517547efde457/698873438e0601ebd24638dd/julia-louis-dreyfus-seinfeld-fan-well-wishes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Press Room","caption":"67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Press Room","creditText":"(LaVeris/FilmMagic)","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4131028/seinfeld-cast-fan-videos/","name":"Watch the Seinfeld Cast Send Well-Wishes to Terminally Ill Fan"}}]}] ```