Biography
From his start as a title writer for
Mack Sennett in the early '20s, former vaudevillian Felix Adler worked with nearly all of the screen's great comedy teams, including
Stan Laurel and
Oliver Hardy,
Bud Abbott and
Lou Costello, and
The Three Stooges. Adler became a staff writer for the Columbia Pictures short subject department in 1935, a position he held until its demise in 1957, becoming adept in later years at writing new wraparounds to old Stooges subjects. The veteran gag writer died of abdominal cancer at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in Woodland Hills, CA. He should not be confused with the famous Ringling Bros. circus clown (1898-1960) of the same name. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide