"I'm a creature of nepotism,"
"I got my first job when I was at Syracuse University and my father, the general manager of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, called me (because) there was an opening for an assistant stage manager. I skipped school."
"I was really getting into the twilight of a mediocre career,"
Adler died on Saturday, confirmed by the Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York. He built a Broadway career across 53 productions serving as stage manager, producer and director, including the original My Fair Lady and collaborations with Marlene Dietrich, Julie Andrews and Richard Burton. He came from an entertainment family rooted in Jewish and Yiddish theatre; his father Philip Adler was a Group Theatre and Broadway general manager and his cousin Stella Adler was an influential acting teacher. He left Broadway during the 1980s slump, moved to California to work in television including Santa Barbara, and an audition invitation from casting director Donna Isaacson launched a more than 30-year onscreen acting career that included Hesh Rabkin on The Sopranos and Howard Lyman on The Good Wife.
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