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A film director and screenwriter who used comedy to examine the anxieties of modern American life — open marriage in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, divorce and self-discovery in An Unmarried Woman, aging and loneliness in Harry and Tonto — earning five Academy Award nominations across those films and Enemies, A Love Story. His semi-autobiographical Next Stop, Greenwich Village drew on his own early years as a struggling actor before he turned to directing.