After spending years in behind-the-scenes roles on Broadway, he enjoyed a late career transformation to become an actor in films and on television.

One of the stars from the class TV series The Sopranos has died at the age of 96. Jerry Adler, who spent decades behind-the-scenes of storied Broadway productions before pivoting to acting in his 60s, died on Saturday, according to a brief family announcement confirmed by the Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York.