Jerry Adler died August 23, at the age of 96. Known to the general public for his screen acting work on The Sopranos, Mad About You, The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Transparent, and Broad City, Mr. Adler was first a man of the theatre. His death was confirmed by Riverside Memorial Chapel.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Mr. Adler came from an actively theatrical family: his father Philip Adler was a theatre manager for dozens of Broadway and touring shows from the 1930s to the 1960s, and his great-uncle was Yiddish theatre actor Jacob Pavlovich Adler. Raised in a Yiddish-speaking household, he followed his father into the management business, working as a stage manager.

On Broadway, Mr. Adler managed or supervised Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Seventeen, Of Thee I Sing, Lunatics and Lovers, My Fair Lady, Moby Dick, The Jack Benny Show, The Girl Who Came to Supper, Oh What a Lovely War, I Had a Ball, Mark Twain Tonight!, A Time for Singing, The Apple Tree, At the Drop of Another Hat, The Homecoming, Black Comedy/White Lies, Little Murders, The Unknown Soldier and His Wife, Marlene Dietrich, Dear World, Coco, Home, 6 Rms Riv Vu, Ulysses in Nighttown, Who's Who in Hell, Annie, I Remember Mama, Last Licks, and Camelot.

Unsatisfied strictly by his time in the management office, Mr. Adler also tried his hand at producing and directing on Broadway, producing the ill-fated musical Drat! The Cat! and directing a number of much better received productions, including Good Evening, Words & Music, Fun City, We Interrupt This Program..., Checking Out, Play Me a Country Song, The Little Prince and the Aviator, and the 1976 revival of My Fair Lady.

In the 1980s, Mr. Adler moved to California to be closer to his children, working the soap opera circuit. By the 1990s, Mr. Adler had begun acting, getting his big break in 1992's The Public Eye opposite Joe Pesci before he was headhunted by screenwriter David Chase to play the role of Herman "Hesh" Rabkin in The Sopranos. Mr. Adler played the associate of the DiMeo crime family from 1999 to 2007, becoming a fan favorite.

Mr. Adler remained an actor for the rest of his life, playing lawyer Howard Lyman on both The Good Wife and The Good Fight, Mr. Wicker on Mad About You, Bob Saget's father on Raising Dad, Moshe Pfefferman on Transparent, and Saul Horowitz on Broad City. Mr. Adler made a memorable one-episode appearance on The West Wing as Toby Ziegler's father, and he starred in A Most Violent Year opposite Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac.

He returned twice to Broadway as an actor, first in 2000's Taller Than a Dwarf, and lastly in Larry David's Fish in the Dark in 2015. In 2024, he published his memoir, Too Funny for Words: Backstage Tales from Broadway, Television and the Movies.