r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • 1d ago

News Jerry Adler, Actor on ‘The Sopranos', A Most Violent Year’, 'Synecdoche, New York', 'Driveways', Dies at 96

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jerry-adler-dead-sopranos-good-wife-rescue-me-1236351995/
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u/doodlols 1d ago

He was a fuckin kid

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u/85ogTripleog 1d ago

Yeah, it's shad when they go young like that.

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u/PossessivePronoun 1d ago edited 1d ago

WHEN THEY GO??

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u/CEMN 1d ago

The actor Jerry Adler, whatever happened there...

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 1d ago

The strong, silent type.

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u/redditfuckenbroek 1d ago

True although he never had the makings of a varsity athlete.

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u/FrankNStein 21h ago

Hasidim, but I don’t beliebem

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u/redditfuckenbroek 14h ago

HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH

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u/GunnieGraves 14h ago

Hey Ton, you hear what I said? I said Hasidim, but I don’t beliebem.

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u/redditfuckenbroek 12h ago

You got a fuckin problem?? I laffed didn’t I?

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u/Bigc12689 20h ago

WHATEVER HAPPENED THERE?!?!?

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u/Gorillagodzilla 21h ago

It happens!

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u/smutketeer 1d ago

Really makes you think.

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u/rnoori32 1d ago

Quasimodo predicted all of this.

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u/darthmase 21h ago

Who did what?

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u/MoreFeeYouS 21h ago

Yeah ehh well, what are you gonna do

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u/posts_while_naked 16h ago

At least he didn't shuffa. For that, we can be grateful.

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u/mcclure1224 17h ago

He was around when Moses was wearing short pants.

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u/Fire_it_up4154 16h ago

Alright, but you gotta get over it.

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u/Yandhi42 12h ago

Me I’m an old man

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u/Wyatt821 1d ago

This article calls him Tony Soprano’s consigliere lol

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u/SloppityNurglePox 1d ago

I can almost hear Steven Van Zant saying something like With all due respect...what the fuck.

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u/CEMN 1d ago

Consiglieri? What have I always said, he was a glorified advisor!

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u/GoodMorningBlackreef 22h ago

✋️😑✋️ 

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u/DexterBotwin 1d ago

He kind of was in the context of Tony’s personal life, where Sil was that role for business. But certainly seems like someone who had never seen the show or know what a consigliere wrote that.

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u/cjboffoli 18h ago

I think he was more Johnny Soprano's consigliere.

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u/UgatzStugots 1d ago

To Tony he was. Not in an official way, but Tony went to him multiple times for advice throughout the series.

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u/theghostmachine 21h ago

In some.ways he was - Tony went to him specifically for things he couldn't or didn't want to go to Sil with - but not nearly enough to call him that.

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u/thegoodbadandsmoggy 23h ago

He kind of was

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u/Sackheimbeutlin87 6h ago

You wanna hear that fuckin' dream, or what?

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 1d ago

He was in a less traditional sense, until Tony cut him out effectively.

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u/TheRainStopped 1d ago

For all you making fun of Hesh: how many hit songs have YOU written?

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u/AmonWeathertopSul 23h ago

Alright but you gotta get over it

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u/RoliePolieOlie__ 1d ago

Sopranos cast everyone is dying  

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u/Bunraku_Master_2021 1d ago

Except for Uncle Jr. himself Dominic Chianese. He's still alive at 94 btw.

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 1d ago edited 1d ago

He even starred in a short film last year.

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u/DemoHD7 7h ago

A tv progrum? A movie?

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u/MJM247 22h ago

You hear the one about the Chianese godfather?

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u/cjboffoli 18h ago

Caddirack? I drive a Rincoln.

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u/WhatIsCooler 15h ago

He made them an offer they couldn't understand.

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u/IAMALWAYSSHOUTING 19h ago

He never had the makings of a Varsity athlete

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u/olgartheviking 21h ago edited 20h ago

Which means he wasn't even 70 when the Sopranos started. Wtf he looked so old. Great actor.

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u/Bigc12689 20h ago

It was all that charcoal boiled meat those people ate

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u/dbrank 20h ago

Nobody told us until the 80s!

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u/Mr_State_Trooper 1d ago

Man, I don’t even wanna think about the day that we lose Dominic. I’m not one who usually cares all that much about celebrity deaths, but it’s gonna kill me for a few days when we lose him. Just a deeply wonderful human being.

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u/elpajaroquemamais 16h ago

He played a middle aged man in godfather part 2 in 1974.

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u/Yandhi42 12h ago

Healthy as a fucking rhino

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u/PG4PM 20h ago

Woah. Junior wins in the end

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u/ironroad18 1d ago

That animal Blundetto is still alive.

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u/PM_ME_UR_MULLETS 1d ago

I can't even say his name

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u/s_4_evrysing 1d ago

Motherless fuck

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u/thegoodbadandsmoggy 23h ago

With his Manson lamps

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u/cheapwalkcycles 1d ago

That cocksuckin piece of shit Tony Soprano's cousin

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u/GreatEmperorAca 1d ago

Put six bullets in my brother without any provocation whatsoever 

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u/Finnezty 21h ago

My cousin’s dead.

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u/To_bor 13h ago

The shooting... God rest his soul eh?

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u/Rustash 1d ago

To be fair, the show ended almost 20 years ago, and some of them were old even then

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u/terrell_owens 1d ago

Especially Uncle Jun. When I was young, he was old, and now I'm old and he's still old!

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u/Eljewfro 16h ago

Heh heh heh heh, you hear that Sil? I said when I was young, he was old, and now I'm old and he's still old!

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u/beamoflaser 18h ago

And they were also all fine healthy-looking specimens of men, kids even

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u/PippyHooligan 1d ago

Alright, but you gotta get over it.

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u/agen_kolar 1d ago

Have others died recently?

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u/SweetCosmicPope 1d ago

Sirico died a few years ago. I think he was the most recent.

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u/Khaldaan 1d ago

Depends on how recent(and how major a character) you mean but:

Tony Sirico - 2022

Peter Bogdanovich - 2022

Suzanne Shephard - 2023

Paul Herman - 2023

Also looking this up is how I learn quite a bit of the cast has passed.

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u/SweetCosmicPope 6h ago

I don’t think I realized Beansie bit the dust.

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u/strangejosh 1d ago

Loved Hesh. Tony did him wrong in the end.

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u/KwHFatalityxx 1d ago

He’s here for da renttt da renttt

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u/SurturOfMuspelheim 1d ago

That shit made me want to beat the shit out of Tony more than anything else he did in the show lol

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u/KwHFatalityxx 1d ago

Yeah really nasty but he was deep in Gambling brain degeneracy

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u/Malphos101 21h ago

Because thats in any way a mitigating factor?

Its like saying "Yea he might have hit his wife, but he was deep in the alcoholism degeneracy."

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u/gingerking87 21h ago

Bros finding out Tony soprano is an anti hero in real time

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u/CatatonicWalrus 16h ago

I'm shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

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u/_steve_rogers_ 14h ago

Was he even a hero at all?

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u/ace2532 17h ago

That scene of him telling Bobby about the vig in the car with Carlo just infuriated me.

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u/cheapwalkcycles 1d ago

Frankly u/KwHFatalityxx if you've got that kind of covert antisemitism, I'd like you to leave this post.

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u/KwHFatalityxx 1d ago

You don’t like the way I talk? Get outta my house!

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u/Plastastic 23h ago

Antisemitism? Fuck you too, my man!

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u/VonSnoe 20h ago

Tony did alot of people wrong.

Im starting to have a suspicious feeling that Tony might be a scumbag!

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u/PianoDave 17h ago

He never had the makings of a varsity athlete.

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u/VeniceThePenice 15h ago

He was gay, Tony Soprano?

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u/TakerEZDude 18h ago

That’s the fuckin boss you’re talking about

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u/AtleastIthinkIsee 1d ago

Another Toothpick.

What a life. He did a brilliant job on The Sopranos.

Very underrated character, Hesh.

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u/ImportantQuestions10 18h ago

Just done rewatching it with my girlfriend last week. It's crazy this guy got to be part of a show that left such a legacy

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u/Retro-scores 1d ago

You’re talking to the wrong white man, my friend. My people were the white man’s n***er when yours were still painting their faces and chasing zebras.

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u/CEMN 1d ago

What did I tell ya? Hold on to your cock when negotiating with these desert peoples.

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u/angrydeuce 18h ago

Finish the bris.

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u/cheapwalkcycles 1d ago

Christopher Columbus was no better than Adolf Hitler

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u/Greensentry 1d ago

Ay woah woah woah woah. Backup. Hitler? You’re talkin’ outa your ass. Columbus and Hitler. You are trivializing the Holocaust.

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u/cheapwalkcycles 18h ago

Fuck you too my man!

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u/natebark 16h ago

You guys have been friends for years!

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u/markyymark13 15h ago

Literally just watched this episode and was thinking about how these dumb arguments are still taking place 20+ years later

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u/scoosRNR 4h ago

He discovered America is what he did. He was a brave Italian explorer. And in this house, Christopher Columbus is a hero. End of story!

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u/artpayne Cliffs on both sides, I'm not gonna paddle to New Zealand 1d ago

I guess what struck me most was, he didn't mince words, in between brain and mouth there was no interlocutor.

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u/Royal__Tenenbaum 1d ago

The whole wake is so good, that’s literally the nicest thing anyone could say about her

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u/mikeu117 1d ago

It’s sad when they go young like that

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u/Significant_Cow4765 15h ago

WHEN THEY GO?

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u/MainZack 1d ago

Just a kid

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u/koolassassin 1d ago

His brother was worse.

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u/CerealAndBagel1991 1d ago

He was hilarious on Rescue Me

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u/LiftEngineerUK 1d ago

Python in his pants

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u/hankjmoody 9h ago

For the uninitiated, the 'superhung chief'.

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u/Rebyll 18h ago

I just watched this for the first time. I definitely think that show never got the attention it deserved longterm.

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u/bluedj88 1d ago

To those coming here to just make sopranos jokes..You want a smack in the mouth!?

RIP

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u/KwHFatalityxx 1d ago

It’s our hobby Why ya gotta belittle it

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u/PippyHooligan 1d ago

Yeah, get outta here before he shoves your quotation book up your fat fuckin ass.

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u/LorenzoApophis 17h ago

You're lucky you don't get your head handed to you

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u/MarcBulldog88 1d ago

Toby’s dad on TWW?

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u/twec21 1d ago

You want I should stay tonight with you?

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u/Landlubber77 22h ago

He sold raincoats for 45 years and before that he worked for Murder Incorporated.

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u/NocturnalPermission 20h ago

Didn’t know what Murder Inc was before that episode.

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u/Landlubber77 17h ago

I only knew it as Ja Rule's group lol.

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u/NocturnalPermission 17h ago

You’re thinking of Fyre Festival.

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u/Apprehensive_Idea758 1d ago

Rest in peace.

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u/BigBlackHungGuy 1d ago

Oh no, not Hesh.

:(

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u/IntellegentIdiot 23h ago

To me he'll always be the brilliant Mr House from Manhattan Murder Mystery, the only Woody Allen film I love (and the only one with Zach Braff). It's like Only Murders In The Building but much better

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u/VonSnoe 20h ago

helped Zero Mostel evade a subpoena from the House Un-American Activities Committee

Man I would love to know the details for this event!

Zero Mostel was a terrificly great actor and its really horrible how he was hounded.

RIP Jerry!

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u/Unleashtheducks 1d ago

Also played the Handyman on Mad About You

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u/W02T 1d ago

I remember him especially from his three appearances on Northern Exposure as Joel's Rabbi who appears out of nowhere…

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u/KumFilledPoossy 1d ago

Hold your dick when dealing with these desert people.

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u/MatthewFightsCrime 1d ago

There’s good and there’s not good. That’s no good.

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u/isaacfrost0 23h ago

He's gone to collect DA RENT! DA RENT!

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u/More_Asbestos 1d ago

I'm surprised they mentioned Drivewaya in the headline. Excellent little film that I can't recommend enough. I believe it was Brian Dennehy's last movie.

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u/HensRightsActivist 21h ago

I'm surprised they mentioned Synecdoche, he had like one or two lines in that movie.

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u/KneeOnShoe 21h ago

I've seen that movie 10 times and I had no idea he was in it. Was he one of the random extras or something?

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u/dgvfatmeerkat 18h ago

Caden's father

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u/Prestigious-Leave-60 11h ago

Yeah thats wild to include in the headline, such a little known film to begin with.

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u/Nisschev 1d ago

Just a kid man

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u/canigetsumgreypoupon 1d ago

the world is going to be a real fucked up place when we lose all these grandpas

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u/IJMSC 1d ago

The sadness accrues.

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u/ReddiTrawler2021 22h ago

May his soul rest in peace.

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u/Big-View-1061 21h ago

Great actor.

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u/Remarkable_Count314 17h ago

Is that Manhattan Murder Mystery guy?

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u/Greedy_Turnip_1939 20h ago

they got Hesch. Wow. What a standup guy. RIP.

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u/balthazar_edison 20h ago

Is this the guy who started taking off his pants to nap in his office on the good wife?

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u/gentilelent 19h ago

So you bought horses with your royalties. And Little Jimmy's royalties, whatever became of those?

Guess we’ll never know, now

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u/Practical_Example426 19h ago

What a fucking blow

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u/ShamilGasiev 19h ago

Another one huh. Fuck

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u/PKBlazinRed 16h ago

Jerry?!!!!

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u/ProEraWuTang 16h ago

RIP Jerry.

One of my favorite scenes with him is when Tony went to him to vent, only for them to bore each other with stories

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u/D4m4geInc 15h ago

Hold on to your cock when you negotiate with these desert people.

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u/WoofinLoofahs 15h ago

96 is a hell of a run. Good night, Mr. Wicker.

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u/_steve_rogers_ 14h ago

He had the makings of a varsity athlete

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u/FantasticName 14h ago

Aw, I loved Hesh. RIP. Also funnily enough I was just reading about Stella Adler (acting teacher of Marlon Brando, among others) the other day, who I didn't realize was his cousin.

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u/hoiabaciufan10 13h ago

Well, he left us quite a legacy. At first I read Charlie Adler, and got spooked. 

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u/OkCicada1806 10h ago

He never had the makings of a varsity athlete

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u/Narrow-Lemon5359 10h ago

So sorry to hear about this! RIP Jerry, you left us too soon - should have lived to at least 120!!

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u/Embarrassed-Dust718 9h ago

My fave Christ killer…

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u/ciacici 9h ago

I dont get it. During sopranos he was an old man. Now im older and he was still an old man

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u/Onepiecebestanime420 9h ago

I knew Jerry, he was my friend and brother’s Godfather, he was an amazing person and had no ego. I loved spending time with him even if I didn’t see him much. RIP Jerry…

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u/MaggieandLuke 8h ago

She gave me my first blow job.

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u/MaggieandLuke 8h ago

His apartment looked like shit

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u/MaggieandLuke 8h ago

You know I can run, Pauline

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u/changinglife3820 8h ago

What a fuckin blow!!!

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u/No-Stage-8738 8h ago

He lived a long full life. I liked him in the Shield and Good Wife/ Good Fight.

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u/scoosRNR 4h ago

Hasidim but I don’t believe ’em!

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u/Alarmed-Landscape-91 1h ago

Rest in peace.

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u/tauntonlake 21h ago

96 - shit, it's been almost 20 years since the Sopranos went off the air.

Feels like yesterday.

Time is FLYING.