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Morgan Spurlock, a documentary filmmaker who captured his own psychological and physical symptoms from eating McDonald’s every day for a month in the Oscar-nominated 2004 feature “Super Size Me,” died Thursday in upstate New York due to complications of cancer. He was 53.
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Morgan Spurlock, ‘Super Size Me’ Director, Dies at 53
Morgan Spurlock, a documentary filmmaker whose McDonald's takedown "Super Size Me" captured the zeitgeist and an Oscar nomination, has died of cancer.
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