Lutha Adler (1903 - 1984)

Born 4 May 1903 in New York City, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Sophia (Kosow) Sidney — married 13 Aug 1938 (to 1947) in London, England, United Kingdom

Died 8 Dec 1984 at age 81 in Kutztown, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Luther Adler is Notable.

Luther Adler was an American actor best known for his work in theatre.

He married the Hollywood actress Sylvia Sidney 13 August 1938 in London.^[1]

London, Aug. 13--Sylvia Sidney, American movie actress, married Luther Adler, New York actor, at Caxton Hall in London early this morning. The bride, who is 28, and the bridegroom, 35, entered the hall through the workmen's entrance. She ware a brown costume and a large blue hat. Their plans are indefinite. There was no indications whether Adler would leave the cast of Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy," in which he plays the lead.

Obituary:^[2]

Luther Adler, a stage and screen actor who starred in "Fiddler on the Roof" on Broadway, died Saturday at his home in Kutztown. He was 81.

Adler appeared in the English-language and Yiddish theater, in films and on television for seven decades.

His appearance in 1965 as Tevye the dairyman in "Fiddler," replacing Zero Mostel, was Adler's first experience with a musical. Not geared to a singing role, he bowed out of the production after a few months, but headed the national touring cast the next year.

He also appeared in the 1964 production of Paddy Chayevsky's "The Passion of Josef D." Adler portrayed Lenin to Peter Falk's Stalin.

Adler became firmly established as a Broadway star in the 1930s, with the Group Theater's productions of works by Clifford Odets. He was a founding member of the Group Theater.

Adler also appeared in John Howard Lawson's "Success," as well as Odets's "Waiting for Lefty," "Paradise Lost" and "Awake and Sing." In 1953, he portrayed Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" on Broadway, and three years later he appeared in Turgenev's "A Month In the Country."

He also took on many roles in Hollywood films. He played Adolf Hitler twice - in a fanciful concoction called "The Magic Face," and in "The Desert Fox," starring James Mason as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Adler was born in New York City, the son of Jacob P. Adler, a founder of the Yiddish theater in America, and Sarah Adler, the actress.

Surviving is his widow, the former Julie Roche. His marriage to actress Sylvia Sidney ended in divorce.

Sources

1. ↑ The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey) 13 Aug 1938, Sat Page 9.
2. ↑ Morning Call, The (Allentown, Pennsylvania) 11 December 1984, obit for STAGE, SCREEN ACTOR LUTHER ADLER, 81, DIES IN KUTZTOWN, GenealogyBank.com (https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/obituaries/obit/138EF842D10481A0-138EF842D10481A0 : accessed 26 June 2022)

See also:

• Wikipedia: Luther Adler
• Wikidata: Item Q1425739, en:Wikipedia