By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Paul Mazursky, the writer and director behind such Oscar-nominated films as “An Unmarried Woman” and “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” has died in Los Angeles. Mazursky, who also co-created “The Monkees” television series, died on Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from pulmonary cardiac arrest, said family spokeswoman Nancy Willen. He first broke into Hollywood as an actor in Stanley Kubrick’s 1953 film “Fear and Desire” and appeared in episodes of the “Twilight Zone” and the 1955 drama “Blackboard Jungle.” But Mazursky was best known for his work behind the camera, particularly for his ability to tap into topics such as marriage and divorce during the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s. His first credit as a film writer was the 1968 Peter Sellers comedy “I Love You, Alice B. Toklas.” Mazursky directed his first feature, the comedy-drama “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” starring Natalie Wood, the following year and earned the first of his four career Academy Award nominations for screenwriting.
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