(November 12, 1964 - 1972) (divorced) Suffering from mental illness, he stalked his ex-wife, actress Ellen Burstyn for a number of years. Committed suicide in 1978 by opening the window of his ninth-floor Manhattan apartment and jumping. Talented writer and story editor (on TV's The Monkees (1966), whose '60s career began to slide while wife Ellen Burstyn's career began to rise. Nephew married the actress Ellen Burstyn in 1964. In her autobiography, Burstyn says that her husband started to use his grandfather's name, Burstyn, when at that time they were legally Mr. and Mrs. Bernstein. When she received a call from a film producer asking her what name should be used in the credits of Alex in Wonderland, she decided to change her name from Ellen McRae to Ellen Burstyn In her autobiography, Burstyn also tells that Nephew was schizophrenic, he would have episodes of violence, and eventually left her. He attempted to reconcile, but she rejected this, ultimately divorcing him in 1972. Nephew killed himself in 1978 by opening the window of his ninth-floor Manhattan apartment and jumping