Jerry Adler, who has died aged 96, was best known for his role in The Sopranos as Herman “Hesh” Rabkin, Tony Soprano’s unofficial consigliere, whose twinkling eyes disguised a ruthless business mind, and later as Howard Lyman in The Good Wife.
Adler was already 70 when he began on The Sopranos; he had been in show business since he was 21, but had spent more than four decades as a stage manager and director, first on the stage and then in television, before he moved in front of the cameras.
