Dryly humorous stage performer, director (of the Broadway comedies "Lovers and Other Strangers" and "Thieves") and writer who made his Broadway acting debut in "Tchin-Tchin" (1962) and performed in his first film, "Sex and the College Girl" (released 1970) in 1964. Grodin's next screen role was as Mia Farrow's disbelieving obstetrician in "Rosemary's Baby" (1968), but he first displayed his trademark deadpan delivery and almost ironic detachment from the character portrayed with his complex performance as the callow yet surprisingly engaging newlywed and social-climbing heel, in Elaine May's