'Sopranos' actor Jerry Adler dies at 96

Jerry Adler, best known for playing a mobster’s confidant on “The Sopranos,” died on Saturday at the age of 96, according to an obituary from the Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York

Jerry Adler, best known for playing a mobster’s confidant on “The Sopranos,” died on Saturday at the age of 96, according to an obituary from the Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York.

The obituary did not provide details. Adler’s friend Frank J. Reilly confirmed his death Saturday on X.

“You know him from one of his iconic roles [and] from many of his guest appearances,” Reilly wrote. “Not bad for a guy who didn’t start acting until he was 65.”

Adler came from a theater family, the son of Group Theatre manager Phil Adler and the nephew of actor Jacob Pavlovich Adler, he told the Southern New England Jewish Ledger in 2014.

He was a theater veteran who worked behind the curtain on some of Broadway’s biggest shows. Adler worked as stage manager for the original 1956 production of “My Fair Lady” featuring Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison.