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Born Irwin Mazursky in Brooklyn, New York, he was a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.^[1] He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1951 and made his film debut in Stanley Kubrick's first feature, Fear and Desire, in which he changed his first name to Paul, and later appeared in the 1955 film [[The Blackboard Jungle]] as a juvenile delinquent. He then became a writer and worked on The Danny Kaye Show in 1963, then in 1965 collaborated with Larry Tucker in crafting the script of the original pilot of The Monkees TV series, in which they both also appeared in cameos. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ... NY redirects here. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York. ... Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an influential and acclaimed American film director and producer. ... Fear and Desire (1953) is a film by Stanley Kubrick about a team of soldiers trapped behind enemy lines in a fictional war. ... The Monkees were a pop-rock quartet created and based in Los Angeles in 1965 for an NBC American television series of the same name. ...

Mazursky's first film as director was Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, which Tucker produced. He also directed Alex in Wonderland, An Unmarried Woman, and Scenes from a Mall. Other films include Blackboard Jungle, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, adapted from a play by French playwright René Fauchois, Moon Over Parador and the autobiographical Next Stop, Greenwich Village. He has recently published his autobiography which recounts his experience in film making and well-known screen personalities he has directed, such as Peter Sellers. His quirky and iconoclastic approach to film subject matter has usually resulted in either big hits or audacious flops. This article is about the 1969 film. ... Alex in Wonderland is a 1970 feature-length black comedy film directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Donald Sutherland and Ellen Burstyn. ... An Unmarried Woman is a 1978 film which tells the story of a wealthy New York woman whose “perfect” life is shattered when her stockbroker husband leaves her for another woman. ... Scenes from a Mall is a 1991 satirical film directed by Paul Mazursky starring Bette Midler and Woody Allen. ... Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 social commentary film about teachers in an inner-city school. ... Down and Out in Beverly Hills is a 1986 American comedy motion picture starring Nick Nolte, Bette Midler and Richard Dreyfuss. ... Boudu Saved from Drowning Boudu Saved from Drowning (French: Boudu sauvé des eaux) is a 1932 French film, directed by Jean Renoir. ... Moon Over Parador is a (1988) romantic comedy film, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Raul Julia and Sofia Braga. ... Richard Henry Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English comedian, actor, and performer, who came to prominence on the BBC radio series The Goon Show and later became a film star. ...

Mazursky has appeared as himself in a number of documentaries on film, including A Decade Under the Influence, New York at the Movies, and Screenwriters: Words Into Image. In Moon Over Parador, when Judith Malina, cast as the dictator's mother, was unavailable, and with the Rio Opera House available for three days of shooting, Mazursky played her himself, in drag. Judith Malina (born June 4, 1926) is an American theater and film actor, writer, and director, who is one of the founders and leaders of The Living Theatre. ...

In more recent years, Mazursky had a small part as "Sunshine", the poker dealer, on The Sopranos. He also appeared in five episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm as Norm, one of Mel Brooks' associates. The following is a listing of fictional characters from the HBO series The Sopranos that are associated with the DiMeo/Soprano Crime Family. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... This article is about the TV series. ... Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American sitcom starring Seinfeld writer, co-creator, and executive producer Larry David. ... Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky on May 9, 1926) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, writer, director and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies. ...

External links

• Paul Mazursky at the Internet Movie Database
• Paul Mazursky at TV.com