Jerry Adler was born in 1929 and died Saturday, August 23, at age 96. His father, Philip Adler, served as general manager of the Group Theater, which included figures such as Stella Adler and Zero Mostel and once helped Mostel evade HUAC. Adler spent most of his career as a stage manager on Broadway productions including My Fair Lady and The Apple Tree. He began acting in his 60s and gained a recurring role as Herman "Hesh" Rabkin on The Sopranos from the pilot through its final season. He later played Howard Lyman on The Good Wife and appeared on Transparent and Broad City.
They dressed him up in all kinds of costumes at the end of the show so he could get out the theater and they wouldn't serve him papers," he told J Weekly in 2006.
"I got my first job when I was at Syracuse University and my father, the general manager of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, called me [because] there was an opening for an assistant stage manager. I skipped school."
"The intent was only to have him for one episode of THE GOOD WIFE," showrunner Robert King tweeted Sunday, "but he was so funny in a diner scene, yelling 'I said ice cream, you stupid bitch' we had him back for six years of Good Wife and three years of Good Fight. One of our favorite collaborators."
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