Jerry Adler was born on February 4,1929 and is an American theatre director, producer, and film and television actor.
13 Facts About Jerry Adler
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Jerry Adler is perhaps best known for his films Manhattan Murder Mystery, The Public Eye, In Her Shoes, and Prime, and for his television work as Herman "Hesh" Rabkin on The Sopranos, Howard Lyman on The Good Wife and The Good Fight, building maintenance man Mr Wicker on Mad About You, Bob Saget's father Sam Stewart on Raising Dad, Fire Chief Sidney Feinberg on Rescue Me, Moshe Pfefferman on Transparent, Saul Horowitz on Broad City, and Hillston on Living with Yourself with Paul Rudd.
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Jerry Adler was the son of Philip Adler and Pauline "Polly" Goldberg, who married in 1926.
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Jerry Adler's father was a theater manager for dozens of Broadway and touring shows from the 1930s to the 1960s.
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Jerry Adler was general manager of the Group Theatre collective in New York and managed productions for Herman Levin and Alexander H Cohen.
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Jerry Adler's great-uncle was Yiddish theater actor Jacob Pavlovich Adler, whose children Stella and Luther Adler were his cousins.
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Jerry Adler was raised in a Yiddish-speaking, observant Jewish household.
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Jerry Adler made his directing debut with the 1974 Sammy Cahn revue Words and Music and directed the 1976 revival of My Fair Lady, which garnered him a Drama Desk Award nomination, and the ill-fated 1981 musical The Little Prince and the Aviator.
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Jerry Adler made three appearances on Northern Exposure as Alan Schulman, Joel Fleischman's old neighborhood rabbi seen in visions.
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The elder Ziegler worked as a 1950s member of Murder, Inc Jerry Adler appeared as the new chief Sidney Feinberg in the fourth season of FX's firefighter drama Rescue Me.
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Jerry Adler guest starred as Eddie's father Al in season three and season four of 'Til Death.
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From 2017 to 2019, Jerry Adler played Moshe Pfefferman, the father of Jeffrey Tambor's character, on the Amazon series Transparent.
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Jerry Adler acted in Larry David's Broadway play Fish in the Dark.