Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock dies at 53

The documentary filmmaker exposed the fast food and chicken industries

Morgan Spurlock has died aged 53 (Alamy/PA)

Documentary filmmaker Morgan 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 on Thursday in New York from complications of cancer, according to a statement issued on Friday by his family.