Documentary Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, Who Skewered Fast Food Industry, Dies at 53

Documentary Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, Who Skewered Fast Food Industry, Dies at 53
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock participate in the BUILD Speaker Series to discuss the film "Go North" at AOL Studios in New York on Jan. 4, 2017. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Photo
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NEW YORK—Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous works skewered America’s food industry and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53.

Mr. Spurlock died Thursday in New York from complications of cancer, according to a statement issued Friday by his family.