Jay Adler

Jay Adler

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

  • Title: Jay Adler
  • Popularity: 7.591
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1896-09-25
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Jay Adler Movies

  • 1956
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    The Killing

    The Killing

    7.7 1956 HD

    Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one...

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  • 1956
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    Crime of Passion

    Crime of Passion

    6.2 1956 HD

    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...

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  • 1955
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    The Big Combo

    The Big Combo

    6.993 1955 HD

    Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's...

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  • 1951
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    Cry Danger

    Cry Danger

    6.735 1951 HD

    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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  • 1972
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    Grave of the Vampire

    Grave of the Vampire

    5.8 1972 HD

    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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  • 1955
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    Murder Is My Beat

    Murder Is My Beat

    5.8 1955 HD

    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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  • 1953
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    99 River Street

    99 River Street

    6.8 1953 HD

    A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.

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  • 1958
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    The Brothers Karamazov

    The Brothers Karamazov

    6.643 1958 HD

    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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  • 1954
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    The Long Wait

    The Long Wait

    5.8 1954 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    The Turning Point

    The Turning Point

    6.2 1952 HD

    Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't...

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  • 1955
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    Illegal

    Illegal

    6.5 1955 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    Scandal Sheet

    Scandal Sheet

    7 1952 HD

    A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.

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  • 1961
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    The Lawbreakers

    The Lawbreakers

    5.5 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    Vice Squad

    Vice Squad

    5.875 1953 HD

    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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  • 1970
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    The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go

    The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go

    4.6 1970 HD

    An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan becomes involved with the notorious Mr. Go, an organized crime mastermind. They...

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  • 1956
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    The Catered Affair

    The Catered Affair

    7.1 1956 HD

    An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.

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  • 1959
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    Curse of the Undead

    Curse of the Undead

    5.4 1959 HD

    A mysterious epidemic has struck an Old West frontier town and young girls are falling deathly ill. Doc Carter, his lovely daughter Dolores, and...

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  • 1955
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    Man with the Gun

    Man with the Gun

    6.2 1955 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    The Family Jewels

    The Family Jewels

    6.4 1965 HD

    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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  • 1952
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    Dreamboat

    Dreamboat

    5.9 1952 HD

    Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been...

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  • 1958
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    Saddle the Wind

    Saddle the Wind

    6.5 1958 HD

    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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  • 1952
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    The Bad and the Beautiful

    The Bad and the Beautiful

    7.3 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1959
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    The Story on Page One

    The Story on Page One

    5.1 1959 HD

    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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  • 1957
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    Sweet Smell of Success

    Sweet Smell of Success

    7.6 1957 HD

    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...

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  • 1939
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    Murder in Soho

    Murder in Soho

    5 1939 HD

    A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.

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  • 1956
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    Runaway Daughters

    Runaway Daughters

    3.9 1956 HD

    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...

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  • 1973
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    Bummer

    Bummer

    4 1973 HD

    The manager of a rock band fires the drunken, psycho bass player, who goes on a rape and murder spree.

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  • 1938
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    No Time to Marry

    No Time to Marry

    6 1938 HD

    In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big...

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  • 1958
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    Seven Guns to Mesa

    Seven Guns to Mesa

    5 1958 HD

    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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  • 1962
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    Who's Got the Action?

    Who's Got the Action?

    5.2 1962 HD

    A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.

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  • 1962
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    Belle Sommers

    Belle Sommers

    1 1962 HD

    A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate.

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  • 1952
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    My Six Convicts

    My Six Convicts

    6.3 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1950
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    The Underworld Story

    The Underworld Story

    6.06 1950 HD

    A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

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  • 1938
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    Penrod and His Twin Brother

    Penrod and His Twin Brother

    5 1938 HD

    Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.

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  • 1950
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    Three Secrets

    Three Secrets

    6.4 1950 HD

    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...

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  • 1957
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    Hell on Devil's Island

    Hell on Devil's Island

    6 1957 HD

    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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  • 1938
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    The Saint in New York

    The Saint in New York

    6.2 1938 HD

    A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through...

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  • 1954
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    Down Three Dark Streets

    Down Three Dark Streets

    5.6 1954 HD

    An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.

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  • 1953
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    The Juggler

    The Juggler

    6.6 1953 HD

    A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.

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  • 1974
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    Macon County Line

    Macon County Line

    5.9 1974 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    Assignment: Paris

    Assignment: Paris

    5.5 1952 HD

    Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a...

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  • 1960
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    All the Fine Young Cannibals

    All the Fine Young Cannibals

    5.3 1960 HD

    An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.

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  • 1955
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    Love Me or Leave Me

    Love Me or Leave Me

    6.7 1955 HD

    A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to...

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  • 1959
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    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    8.4 1959 HD

    A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

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  • 1959
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    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    8.4 1959 HD

    A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

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  • 1963
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    The Fugitive

    The Fugitive

    7.204 1963 HD

    Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes,...

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  • 1960
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    The Barbara Stanwyck Show

    The Barbara Stanwyck Show

    6.2 1960 HD

    The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck...

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.636 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1960
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    Checkmate

    Checkmate

    4.143 1960 HD

    Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television...

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  • 1959
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    The Detectives

    The Detectives

    5.571 1959 HD

    The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The...

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  • 1952
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    The Ford Television Theatre

    The Ford Television Theatre

    6 1952 HD

    This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses...

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  • 1957
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    Have Gun, Will Travel

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    7.4 1957 HD

    Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number...

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  • 1958
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    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    6.9 1958 HD

    Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three...

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  • 1958
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    77 Sunset Strip

    77 Sunset Strip

    6.682 1958 HD

    Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office...

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