Jerry Adler, ‘Sopranos’ star and Broadway backstage vet turned late-in-life actor, dies at 96

New York — Jerry Adler, who spent decades behind the scenes of Broadway productions before acting in acting in the 1960s, died at the age of 96.

Adler died on Saturday, according to a brief family advertisement confirmed by the Refresh Calole in New York.

Among Adler’s representative credits are “Soprano”, in which he played the role of Tony Soprano Rabin’s adviser in all six seasons, and “good wife”, where the law partner played Howard Lehman. But before Adler had climbed in front of a movie or TV camera, he had 53 production of Broadway for his name – all behind the scenes, as a manager, producer or director.

He witnessed from an entertainment family with deep roots at the Jewish and Dishi Theater, as he told Ledger the Jew in 2014. His father, Philip Adler, was general manager of the famous group theater and Broadway production, and his cousin Stella Adler was a legendary teacher.

“I am a creature of favoritism, Adler told Theatremania in 2015.” I got my first job when I was at the University of Sirkios and Abi, the general manager of Al -Shuqrawat gentlemen, called me (because) there was an opening for an auxiliary manager. I skipped the school. “

After a long theater profession, which included the original production of “My Fair Lady” and working with the likes of Marilyn Ditrich, Julie Andrews and Richard Burton, among others, Adler Broadway left during the eighties of the last century. He moved to California, where he was working on television production like the Santa Barbara soap opera.

“I was really entered into a modest profession,” the New York Times told the New York Times.

But the retirement he was thinking was fraught when Donna Isaxon, the director of “The Public Eye” and a long -time friend of Adler’s daughters, had a hidden role that was difficult to compensate, as reported by the New York Times at the time. Adler was on the other side of the tests, and with curiosity to try how the actors felt, he agreed to try. The newspaper reported that director Howard Franklin, who tested dozens of actors of the role of a column writer in the newspaper Joe Pesque, “Qeshaira” when Adler read the part.

So he started the acting profession that made him constantly work in front of the camera for more than 30 years. David Chis, written “Northern Exposure”, paved the way for its future hunting project, “Soprano”.

“When David was going to the pilot for the” soprano “that he called and asked me if I was going to do a veil from hesh. They were supposed to be just one shot, but when they took the show, they loved the character, and I would have given a fourth week.”

The films included “Manhattan Murder Mystery”, Lodi Allen, but Adler may be famous for his TV work. These credits included artistic periods on “Reserve Me”, “MAD About You” and “Transparent” and guests in shows ranging from “The West Wing” to “Broad City”.

He even returned to Broadway, this time on stage, in “longer than Ellen May’s dwarf” in 2000. In 2015, he appeared in Larry David’s book for the first time on the stage, “Fish in the Dark”.

“I do it because I really enjoy it. I think retirement is a way to anywhere,” Adler told Forward, on the subject of the play. “I don’t know what to do if I retire. I think if no one is calling, this is when it is retired. At the same time, this is great.”

Adler published notes, “Very funny for words: scenes tales of Broadway, television and films”, last year. “I am ready to go in a moment,” he told CT Insider and then. In recent years, he and his wife, Joan Lakmman, moved from Connecticut to his hometown in New York.

For Adler, who was once believed to have been “very bright appearance” to behave, seeing himself on the screen was strange, at least at first. In multiple interviews with different outlets, the audience was surprised to recognize it after spending many years behind the scenes. There was at least one feature to keep the movie, as the New York Times told the New York Times in 1992.

“I am Khaled,” he said.