Morgan Spurlock, a narrative filmmaker who captured his possess mental and physical side effects from eating McDonald’s each day for a month in the Oscar-nominated 2004 include “Super Estimate Me,” kicked the bucket Thursday in upstate Unused York due to complications of cancer. He was 53.




Spurlock’s family affirmed his death.




“It was a pitiful day, as we said farewell to my brother Morgan,” says Craig Spurlock, who worked with his brother on a few ventures. “Morgan gave so much through his craftsmanship, thoughts and liberality. Nowadays the world has misplaced a genuine inventive virtuoso and a uncommon man. I am so glad to have worked together with him.”

Spurlock rose to noticeable quality for “Super Measure Me,” in which he conducted an try including expending as it were nourishment from McDonald’s for a 30-day extend. The rules moreover included the stipulation that Spurlock may not deny the “super-size” choice if provoked amid the exchange. The filmmaker moreover worked out less to coordinate the normal American’s physical movement. By the conclusion of the try, Spurlock claimed that he picked up 25 pounds and endured from discouragement and liver brokenness.

“Super Estimate Me” captured the zeitgeist when it discharged in 2004, grossing $22 million at the worldwide box office and starting a discussion approximately how the quick nourishment industry energize destitute nourishment among the common open. McDonald’s suspended its “super-size” alternative in the time taking after its discharge. In spite of the fact that the doc is still utilized as an instructive associate in a few school wellbeing classes, it has too started wrangle about over its precision in the a long time since, with a few feedback citing Spurlock denying to freely share his eat less log from filming.



Born Nov. 7, 1970, in Parkersburg, W. Va., Spurlock was raised beneath the Methodist confidence, in spite of the fact that he recognized as skeptic afterward in life. He graduated with a BFA in film from Modern York College in 1993.




In the 13 a long time taking after “Super Measure Me,” Spurlock picked up extra victory beneath his generation company Warrior Writers, creating and coordinating about 70 narrative movies and tv arrangement. Spurlock’s wide-ranging works were fueled by tending to disputable and topical subjects. His ventures secured issues counting the U.S. war in Afghanistan (“Where In the the World Is Osama Canister Laden”), least wage and worker labor (“30 Days”); customer helplessness to showcasing (The Most noteworthy Motion picture Ever Sold”); trophy chasing and body alteration (“7 Dangerous Sins”); senior care and betting (“Morgan Spurlock Interior Man”) and corporate weight on family ranches (“Super Estimate Me 2: Heavenly Chicken!”).

In December 2017, as the #MeToo development proceeded to pick up footing, Spurlock composed a long media post saying he was “part of the problem.” In the post, he conceded to serial treacheries and said he had settled an affirmation of sexual badgering from a previous collaborator. He too said he had been charged of assault in college. The post viably finished Spurlock’s narrative career, as Spurlock ventured down from Warrior Writers in no time after.



Spurlock is survived by his two children, Laken and Kallen; mother, Phyllis Spurlock; father Ben (Iris); brothers Craig (Carolyn) and Barry (Buffy); different nieces and nephews; and previous companions, Alexandra Jamieson and Sara Bernstein.