Jay Adler
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Jay Adler (September 26, 1896 – September 23, 1978) was an American actor in theater, television, and film.
Born in New York City, he was the eldest son of actors Jacob and Sara Adler, and the brother of five actor siblings, including stage actor Luther and drama coach Stella. The Adlers were a Jewish-American acting dynasty in New York City's Yiddish Theater District and they played a significant role in theater from the late 19th century to the 1950s. Stella Adler became the most influential member of their family. During a long acting career of minor character roles, Jay Adler appeared in more than 40 films and 37 television series between 1938 and 1976. He appeared in The Big Combo (1955), Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956) and Jerry Lewis' The Family Jewels (1965). In 1961, Adler appeared both in the episode "The Lady and the Lawyer" of the television series The Asphalt Jungle and in The Lawbreakers, a theatrical film version of the episode. Jay Adler died at age 81 in Woodland Hills, California and was buried in the Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, New York.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.038 |
Birthday | 1896-09-25 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As |
1956
The Killing
7.655/1503
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one la...
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The Killing
1956
Crime of Passion
6.2/51
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburb...
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Crime of Passion
1955
The Big Combo
6.993/147
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The Big Combo
1951
Cry Danger
6.735/49
After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.
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Cry Danger
1972
Grave of the Vampire
5.8/34
Vampire Caleb Croft has awakened from his unholy slumber -- with an insatiable lust for blood and the pleasures of the flesh.
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Grave of the Vampire
1955
Murder Is My Beat
5.8/18
Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted...
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Murder Is My Beat
1953
99 River Street
6.8/68
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.
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99 River Street
1958
The Brothers Karamazov
6.6/42
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons...
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The Brothers Karamazov
1954
The Long Wait
5.8/19
Soon after thumbing a ride from a truck driver, Johnny McBride is badly burned and suffers from complete amnesia when the vehicle he’s riding in blows...
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The Long Wait
1952
The Turning Point
6.2/28
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't unders...
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The Turning Point
1955
Illegal
6.5/37
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney...
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Illegal
1952
Scandal Sheet
6.967/61
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
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Scandal Sheet
1961
The Lawbreakers
5.5/4
The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner 's efforts to investigate homicides that take p...
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The Lawbreakers
1953
Vice Squad
5.9/16
A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.
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Vice Squad
1970
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
4.6/7
An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan becomes involved with the notorious Mr. Go, an organized crime mastermind. They consp...
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The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
1956
The Catered Affair
7.1/40
An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.
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The Catered Affair
1959
Curse of the Undead
5.339/28
A mysterious epidemic has struck an Old West frontier town and young girls are falling deathly ill. Doc Carter, his lovely daughter Dolores, and preac...
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Curse of the Undead
1955
Man with the Gun
6.2/50
A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He also finds a town and sheriff afraid of their own sh...
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Man with the Gun
1965
The Family Jewels
6.4/65
A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.
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The Family Jewels
1952
Dreamboat
5.9/14
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been vio...
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Dreamboat
1958
Saddle the Wind
6.5/30
Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the...
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Saddle the Wind
1952
The Bad and the Beautiful
7.3/245
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of vari...
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The Bad and the Beautiful
1959
The Story on Page One
5.1/4
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.
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The Story on Page One
1957
Sweet Smell of Success
7.615/479
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't contro...
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Sweet Smell of Success
1939
Murder in Soho
5/1
A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.
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Murder in Soho
1956
Runaway Daughters
3.9/4
Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from misdem...
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Runaway Daughters
1973
Bummer
4/7
The manager of a rock band fires the drunken, psycho bass player, who goes on a rape and murder spree.
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Bummer
1938
No Time to Marry
6/1
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop...
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No Time to Marry
1958
Seven Guns to Mesa
5/1
A band of outlaws, led by "Papa" Clellan, hold up in a ghost town as they plan an attack on a wagon train loaded with gold. The unexpected arrival of...
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Seven Guns to Mesa
1962
Who's Got the Action?
5.2/11
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
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Who's Got the Action?
1962
Belle Sommers
0/0
A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate.
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Belle Sommers
1952
My Six Convicts
6.3/9
A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have n...
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My Six Convicts
1950
The Underworld Story
6.06/25
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
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The Underworld Story
1938
Penrod and His Twin Brother
5/1
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.
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Penrod and His Twin Brother
1950
Three Secrets
6.4/15
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted a...
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Three Secrets
1957
Hell on Devil's Island
6/0
An ex-con from Devil's Island enlists the support of the governor's daughter in exposing a prison mining operation.
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Hell on Devil's Island
1938
The Saint in New York
6.2/15
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox...
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The Saint in New York
1954
Down Three Dark Streets
5.6/22
An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.
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Down Three Dark Streets
1953
The Juggler
6.6/10
A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.
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The Juggler
1974
Macon County Line
5.9/34
A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and at th...
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Macon County Line
1952
Assignment: Paris
5.5/17
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Assignment: Paris
1960
All the Fine Young Cannibals
5.3/7
An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.
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All the Fine Young Cannibals
1955
Love Me or Leave Me
6.7/46
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stard...
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