Jerry Adler, a Broadway veteran who helped bring some of theater’s most iconic productions to life before reinventing himself as a TV actor on “The Sopranos,” “The Good Wife” and “Rescue Me,” died Saturday in New York City. He was 96.
His publicist said the actor “passed peacefully in his sleep,” The Guardian reported.
Born in Brooklyn, Adler spent decades behind the scenes before finding success on screen. He began working as an assistant stage manager on the early-1950s musical “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” before moving on to major productions that defined midcentury Broadway, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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