Director-actor Paul Mazursky dies at 84

(ANSA) - Rome, July 2 - Academy award nominated filmmaker and actor Paul Mazursky died of pulmonary cardiac arrest on Monday in Los Angeles.
    The Brooklyn-born Mazursky, 84, made his acting debut in Stanley Kubrick's "Fear and Desire" (1953), and acted most recently in television series "The Sopranos" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm". Mazursky was known as a versatile director and writer with credits such "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" (1969), "An Unmarried Woman," (1978) and "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" (1986), and was considered one of the pioneers of the "anti-Hollywood" generation which challenged the Vietnam War and focused on unconventional film making during the 1960s and 1970s.