Overview

• His family confirmed the death Saturday in New York through Riverside Memorial Chapel, with no cause disclosed.
• Adler was best known as Herman “Hesh” Rabkin across six seasons of The Sopranos and as Howard Lyman on The Good Wife and The Good Fight.
• The Good Wife creator Robert King said a planned one‑episode appearance became years of work after Adler’s first scene landed, posting a tribute on social media.
• Before on‑screen roles beginning in the early 1990s, he logged 53 Broadway credits behind the scenes, including the original My Fair Lady, and came from a theatre family that included his father Philip Adler and relative Stella Adler.
• Colleagues and friends, including Michael Imperioli and Frank J. Reilly, shared remembrances, and Adler’s 2024 memoir, Too Funny for Words, recounted his late‑career pivot.