Actor Jerry Adler died Saturday in New York. He was 96 years old.
His death was confirmed by his family, who revealed that the sopranos actor “passed peacefully while sleeping.” There was no immediate cause.
Adler star The sopranos and played the legal partner Howard Lyman in The good wife.
Born in Brooklyn in 1929, Adler began his career behind the scene at Broadway, working as stage manager, producer and director. Over the years, he contributed to 53 Broadway productions, including My Fair Lady and Coco, before changing his focus on the performance on the screen.
“I got my first job when I was at the University of Syracuse, and my father, the general manager of Knights prefers blondes, called me [because] There was an opening for a scene manager. I skipped school, “he revealed in his life.
Adler left Broadway during his fall in the 1980s. Then he moved to California, where he worked in television productions such as the soap opera. Santa Barbara.
By his own admission, “I was really putting me in the twilight of a mediocre race,” Times told New York in 1992. He later changed to work constantly in front of the camera for more than 30 years.
