Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who skewered the fast food industry, dies of cancer at age 53

By Mark Kennedy, Associated PressFILE - Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock participate in the BUILD Speaker Series to discuss the film,"Go North", at AOL Studios on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in New York. Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets his life’s work, famously eating only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53.

Spurlock died Thursday in New York from complications of cancer, according to a statement issued Friday by his family. Spurlock made a splash in 2004 with his groundbreaking “Super Size Me,” and returned in 2019 with “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!” — a sober look at an industry that processes 9 billion animals a year in America.

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