Report has Actor shown that, a veteran actor, Jerry Adler, best known for playing advisor Herman ‘Hesh’ Rabkin in The Sopranos is dead.
He died at the age of 96.
Although he found fame on the small screen, Adler did not start acting until his early 60s – as he was preparing to retire from an illustrious behind-the-scenes Broadway career.
The theatre veteran worked alongside stars including Julie Andrews, Angela Lansbury and Richard Burton during more than three decades in the industry.
The Brooklyn-born actor “passed peacefully in his sleep” on Saturday, representatives said on behalf of his family, according to the Associated Press and Fox News.
Adler worked as a stage manager, supervisor and director on more than 50 Broadway productions – after being offered his first job by his father, who worked in the industry, while at university.
He stage managed the original 1956 production of My Fair Lady, starring the then-20-year-old Julie Andrews, and 1969’s Coco, in which Kathryn Hepburn played the founder of fashion house Chanel.
He went on to supervise the original production of the beloved musical Annie in 1977, and the 1980 play Camelot, starring Richard Burton.
He also first stepped into the world of TV in the 1980s and early ’90s, stage managing a handful of productions including several Tony Awards.
May his soul Rest in Peace!