- Suffering from mental illness, Burstyn stalked his ex-wife, actress Ellen Burstyn, for a number of years, before he committed suicide in 1978 by jumping from a ninth-floor, Manhattan apartment window.
- Talented writer and story editor (on TV's The Monkees (1965)) whose career began to slide while his wife (Ellen Burstyn)'s career began to rise.
- Had an adopted son, Jefferson, with his ex-wife, Ellen Burstyn.
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