Jerry Adler, an actor best known for series-spanning roles on The Sopranos and The Good Wife , has died. He was 96. According to the obituary released by his family, Adler died Saturday, August 23.

Adler was born in 1929. His father, Philip Adler, was general manager of The Group Theater — home of actors and writers like his cousin Stella Adler, Clifford Odets, Elia Kazan,Sidney Lumet, and Zero Mostel. Adler saw the Group help Mostel evade HUAC. “They dressed him up in all kinds of costumes at the end of the show so he could get out the theater and they wouldn’t serve him papers,” he told J Weekly in 2006 .

Adler spent the bulk of his life as a stage manager. He managed or assistant managed Broadway shows like My Fair Lady and The Apple Tree . “I’m a creature of

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