{"id":21467,"date":"2024-05-24T10:16:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/morgan-spurlock-dies-at-53\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T12:26:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T16:26:18","slug":"morgan-spurlock-dies-at-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/morgan-spurlock-dies-at-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Spurlock Dies at 53"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Spurlock, the filmmaker behind the award-winning documentary <em>Super Size Me<\/em>, has passed away at the age of 53 from cancer complications.<\/p>\n<p>Spurlock gained acclaim for directing the documentary <em>Super Size Me<\/em> (2004), which earned an Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature. Spurlock also directed <em>Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?<\/em> (2008), <em>POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold<\/em> (2011), <em>Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan&#8217;s Hope<\/em> (2011), <em>One Direction: This Is Us<\/em> (2013) and <em>Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!<\/em> (2017). He executive produced and starred in the reality series <em>30 Days<\/em> (2005 to 2008). He also hosted and produced the CNN show <em>Morgan Spurlock Inside Man<\/em> (2013 to 2016).<\/p>\n<p>You can read our interview with Spurlock about <em>Inside Man<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/morgan-spurlock-inside-man\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch our 2012 interview with Spurlock here:<br \/>\n<div style=\"display: block; position: relative; max-width: 690px;\">\r\n \t                <div style=\"padding-top: 56.2504%;\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<video data-video-id=\"1676940478001\" \r\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-account=\"1120308147\" \r\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-player=\"default\" \r\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-embed=\"default\" \r\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-application-id \r\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"video-js\" \r\n\t\t\t\t\tcontrols=\"\"\r\n                    loop autoplay\r\n\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; right: 0px; left: 0px;\"><\/div><\/video>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/1120308147\/default_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Spurlock, the filmmaker behind the award-winning documentary Super Size Me, has passed away at the age of 53 from cancer complications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-21467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-morgan-spurlock","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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