Luther Adler
Luther Adler (actually Lutha J. Adler, born May 4, 1903 in New York City, New York, USA, † December 8, 1984 in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, USA) was an American film and theater actor.
Life
Luther Adler was born as one of six children of Jacob P. and his wife Sara Adler in New York, the founders of one of the most famous Jewish acting dynasties in America. Although each of the siblings eagle later on Broadway, celebrated successes, but especially Jay and Stella Adler are best known today. The latter was regarded as one of the most renowned acting teacher in Hollywood.
At the age of five years, Luther Adler joined in 1908 on his father at New York's Lower East Side theater, in a play named Schmendrick. At age 13, followed in 1916 first major roles, and on 5 December 1921, the 18 -year-old eagle in The Hand of the Potter, a play by Theodore Dreiser was first committed on Broadway. Adler's breakthrough as a stage actor followed on 27 February 1923, when he took over the lead role of the play Humoresque.
Luther Adler took over in the 1920s and 1930s, numerous theater roles, and counted in 1931 alongside his sister Stella of the founding members of the Group Theatre, chaired Harold Clurman took over, who would become his brother-in later.
In 1937, Adler also debuted as an actor before the camera, the spy movie Lancer Spy. This was followed by an eight -year-long break to be from 1942 to concentrate on his new job, the directed plays on Broadway. Only in 1945 Adler was with the drama Cornered a comeback on the big screen.
Adler's acting career in film was limited mainly from the early 1950s on television series. One of his best known films at that time was the 1951 war film produced Rommel, the desert fox, the eagle embodied in only six years after the end of World War II and was the first Jewish actor at all, Adolf Hitler. Guest appearances in television series took Adler, among others in The Twilight Zone, Mission: Impossible You and The Streets of San Francisco.
Luther Adler was married twice. From his first marriage to actress Sylvia Sidney, with whom he was married from 1938 to 1942, was his only child, son Jacob forth. After that, he was married to Julia Roche.
Adler died in 1984, at the age of 81, of natural causes in the small town of Kutztown, Pennsylvania in the east.