Overview

• Adler’s family announced he died Saturday at 96, with a friend, Frank J. Reilly, also confirming the news on X.
• He was best known as Herman “Hesh” Rabkin on HBO’s The Sopranos, and he played Howard Lyman on The Good Wife and deputy chief Sidney Feinberg on Rescue Me.
• He spent decades behind the scenes on Broadway, including serving as stage manager on the original 1956 production of My Fair Lady and working on more than 50 shows.
• He moved into on-screen work in the early 1990s after stage-managing TV’s Santa Barbara, first appearing on television in 1991 and in the 1992 film The Public Eye.
• Survivors include his wife, psychologist Joan Laxman, and his later credits ranged from Northern Exposure and Mad About You to Transparent and Broad City.