Spurlock won acclaim for a series of issue-based documentaries and TV shows, and made a 3D film about boyband One Direction
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Documentary-maker Morgan Spurlock, the director of films including Super Size Me and Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? died on Thursday aged 53.
His family announced in a statement that he “passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends in New York from complications of cancer.”