Jerry Adler, the veteran actor and Broadway director best known for his roles in The Sopranos, The Good Wife and Rescue Me, has died at the age of 96. His death was confirmed by his longtime friend Frank J. Reilly, who paid tribute on X, writing: “The great actor, my friend Jerry Adler died today at the age of 96. You know him from one of his iconic roles and from many of his guest appearances. Not bad for a guy who didn’t start acting until he was 65.”
Adler’s career was remarkable for its late bloom. After decades working behind the curtain as a Broadway stage manager and director, he turned to acting in his 60s and went on to leave his mark on television.
In HBO’s groundbreaking drama The Sopranos, he played Herman “Hesh” Rabkin, a Jewish music producer and longtime consigliere to James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano, whose wisdom and candour shaped many of the mob boss’s key decisions.
He showed his range by taking on very different roles elsewhere ,notably the blunt and often offensive attorney Howard Lyman in CBS’s The Good Wife and spin-off The Good Fight, and Deputy Fire Chief Sidney Feinberg in FX’s firefighter drama Rescue Me.
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