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Morgan Spurlock
Spurlock at the 2012Tribeca Film Festivalworld premiere ofMansome
Born
Morgan Valentine Spurlock

(1970-11-07)November 7, 1970
Parkersburg, West Virginia,U.S.
DiedMay 23, 2024(2024-05-23)(aged 53)
New York, U.S.
Alma materNew York University(BFA)
Occupation(s)Film director, television producer, writer
Years active1994–2019
Spouse(s)
Priscilla Sommer
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(m.1996;div.2003)​

Alex Jamieson
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(m.2006;div.2011)​
[1]
Sara Bernstein
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(m.2016;div.2024)​
[2]
Children2
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Morgan Valentine Spurlock(November 7, 1970 – May 23, 2024) was an American documentary filmmaker, writer, and television producer. He directed 23 films and was the producer of nearly 70 films throughout his career.[3]Spurlock received acclaim for directing the documentarySuper Size Me(2004), which was nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film.[4]He producedWhat Would Jesus Buy?(2007) and directedWhere in the World Is Osama bin Laden?(2008),POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold(2011),Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope(2011), andOne Direction: This Is Us(2013).

Spurlock was executive producer and star of the reality television series30 Days(2005–2008). In June 2013, he became the producer and host of theCNNshowMorgan Spurlock Inside Man(2013–2016). Spurlock was also the co-founder of the short-filmcontent marketingcompany Cinelan, which produced theFocus Forward campaign for GE.[5]

The documentarySuper Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!was set to be released in 2017, until Spurlock wrote a social media post saying that he had a history ofsexual misconductand referring to himself as "part of the problem", leading to adistributiondrop and his resignation from theproduction company.[6]The film was instead distributed in 2019 bySamuel Goldwyn Films.In 2024, Spurlock died at age 53 due to complications related to cancer.[7]

Early life

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Morgan Valentine Spurlock was born on November 7, 1970, inParkersburg,West Virginia,[8]and was raised inBeckley,West Virginia. His parents, Ben and Phyllis Spurlock,[9]raised him as aMethodist.[10]Phyllis was anEnglish teacherand guidance counselor while Ben owned an auto repair shop.[11]Spurlock said he was ofScots-Irishand English descent.[12]He would later state that he wassexually abusedas a child.[3]

Spurlock graduated fromWoodrow Wilson High SchoolinBeckley, West Virginia,then attendedNew York University'sTisch School of the Arts,graduating with aBFAin film in 1993.[3][13]He was a member of the fraternityPhi Gamma Delta.[14]

Career

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Spurlock at the2008 Sundance Film Festival

Spurlock was a playwright, winning awards for his playThe Phoenixat both the New YorkInternational Fringe Festivalin 1999 and the Route 66 American Playwriting Competition in 2000.[15]In 2004, Spurlock co-founded theproduction studioWarrior Poets which would be the production studio for the films he directed and produced for the rest of his career.[3]

The list of documentary films that inspired Spurlock includesBrother's Keeper,Hoop Dreams,The Thin Blue Line,Roger and Me,Harlan County, USA,andThe Last Waltz.He consideredBrother's Keeperthe greatest documentary of all time.[16][17]

Super Size Me

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Main article:Super Size Me

Spurlock's documentarySuper Size Mewas released in the U.S. on May 7, 2004. He conceived the idea for the film when he was at his parents' house for Thanksgiving, and while watching TV saw a news story about a lawsuit brought against McDonald's by two teenage girls who blamed the fast food chain for their obesity.[7]The film was produced for $65,000 and made $22 million in return.[13]

The film depicts an experiment Spurlock conducted in 2003, in which he claimed he ate threeMcDonald'smeals every day (and nothing else) for 30 days, although he later disclosed he also drank copious amounts of alcohol. The film's title derives from one of the rules of Spurlock's experiment: he would not refuse the "super-size" option whenever it was offered to him but would never ask for it himself. The result, according to Spurlock, was a diet with twice thecaloriesrecommended by theUSDA.Further, Spurlock attempted to curtail his physical activity to better match the exercise habits of the average American; he previously walked about 3 miles (4.8 km) a day, whereas the average American walks 1.5 miles (2.4 km).[18]

Over the course of filming, Spurlock gained 25 pounds (11 kg), became quite puffy, and sufferedliverdysfunction and depression by the end. His supervising physicians noted the effects caused by his high-calorie diet—once even comparing it to a case of severebinge alcoholism.Following Spurlock's December 2017 assertion that he had not been "sober for more than a week" in three decades, the claims of his liver dysfunction being caused by eating McDonald's food solely for 30 days have been called into question.[13][19]Spurlock also did not publicly release a diet log documenting his diet while filming the documentary.[10]

After completing the project, it took Spurlock 14 months to return to his normal weight of 185 pounds (84 kg). His then-girlfriend (and later wife), Alexandra Jamieson, took charge of his recovery with her "detox diet",which became the basis for her book,The Great American Detox Diet.[20]Super Size Mewas later nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Documentary Featureand Spurlock won the firstWriters Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay.[21]Spurlock wrote a book in 2005 as a follow-up toSuper Size MeentitledDon't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America.[22]

30 Days

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Main article:30 Days (TV series)

In each episode, a person (sometimes Spurlock himself) or a group of people spend 30 days immersing themselves in a mode of life markedly different from their norm (being in prison, a devout Christian living in a Muslim family, a homophobe staying with a homosexual person, etc.), while Spurlock discusses the relevant social issues involved. The series ran onFXbetween 2005 and 2008.[23]In the second-season finale, Spurlock spent 25 days locked in aHenrico County,Virginia (a county outside ofRichmond), jail to experience life as an inmate.[24]The third season of30 Dayspremiered on June 3, 2008.[25]The first episode of the third season, titled "Working in a Coal Mine", was filmed in Bolt, West Virginia, which is located roughly 18 miles (29 km) from the city ofBeckley,West Virginia, where Spurlock was raised before leaving for New York.[26]In 2008, he signed a deal withFox Television Studios.[27]

I Bet You Will

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Spurlock also createdI Bet You WillforMTV.I Bet You Willbegan as a popular Internetwebcastof five-minute episodes featuring ordinary people doing stunts in exchange for money. Examples of the scenarios which transpired include eating a full jar ofmayonnaise(US$235), eating a "worm burrito" (US$265), and taking shots ofcorn oil,Pepto-Bismol,lemon juice,hot sauce,cold chicken broth, andcod liver oil(US$450.00 for all nine shots). MTV later bought the show and aired it, which Spurlock hosted.[28]

Subsequent films

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Spurlock's second feature documentary,Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?premiered at theSundance Film Festivalin January 2008. In the film and during interviews, Spurlock explored the fight againstterrorismand views the argument from both sides, in which he tries to findOsama bin Laden.[29]

Spurlock directedThe Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!.[30][31]

Freakonomicsis an adaptation of thebook of the same namebySteven D. LevittandStephen J. Dubner,which premiered at theTribeca Film Festivalin April 2010 and had a theatrical release later that year.[32]Spurlock was at the helm of this project alongside five directors (Heidi Ewing,Rachel Grady,Alex Gibney,Seth Gordon,andEugene Jarecki). Spurlock's segment dealt with people with unusual names.[32]

The one-hour documentaryCommitted: The Toronto International Film Festivalpremiered onAMCon October 12, 2010.[33]

The Greatest Movie Ever Soldis a 2011 documentary film about product placement, marketing, and advertising which was reportedly itself financed through product placement.[34][35]The Greatest Movie Ever Soldpremiered at theSundance Film Festival in January 2011.[36]In the United States, the film had alimited release,opening on April 22, 2011, in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington D.C.,Boston,Philadelphia,San Diego,Phoenix,andAustin, Texas.[34]Six days later, the film opened the 2011Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[37]

In mid-2010, Spurlock worked withBuffy the Vampire SlayercreatorJoss Whedon,Ain't It Cool NewsfounderHarry Knowles,and comic book creatorStan Leeto create the documentaryComic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope,to cover the stories of convention fans.[38][39]Whedon, Lee, and Knowles served as executive producers.Legendary Pictures' Thomas Tull, who independently financed the documentary, toldVariety,"We look forward to capturing the spirit, energy and people that Comic-Con has infused into legions of fans, bringing these audiences and projects out of the halls and onto a world stage."[40]

Spurlock's documentaryMansomewas announced on March 8, 2012, as a Spotlight selection for theTribeca Film Festival.The film takes a comedic look at male identity as defined through men's grooming habits featuring celebrity and expert commentary.[41]

Spurlock hosted and produced theCNNseriesMorgan Spurlock Inside Man,which aired from June 2013 to August 2016.[42]

Spurlock helped distributeA Brony Tale,a documentary directed byBrent Hodgeon thebronyphenomenon and on the musician and voice acting career ofAshleigh Ball.The film was selected for theatrical distribution under the label Morgan Spurlock Presents. The film was released in theaters on July 8, 2014.[43]

Spurlock teamed up with Hodgee Films again on the 2015 web seriesConsider the Source,in association withDisney'sMaker Studios.[44]

While attending a screening of the movieCatfish,Spurlock approached the film's producers afterwards and calledCatfish"the best fake documentary" he had ever seen.[45][46]

Other work

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Morgan Spurlock with Highland Titles in Scotland during filmingMorgan Spurlock's New Britannia

Sexual misconduct and resignation

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In December 2017, Spurlock wrote ablog postadmitting to what he described as a history ofsexual misconduct.[51]In the midst of the#MeToo movement,Spurlock stated: "I've come to understand after months of these revelations, that I am not some innocent bystander, I am also a part of the problem."[6]In the post, he said that he committed sexual misconduct in his past, including being "unfaithful to every wife and girlfriend [he] ever had".[52]Spurlock recounts settling asexual harassmentallegation, brought by hisassistantat his production company, Warrior Poets, for verbal harassment including yelling for her as "hot pants" or "sex pants" from across the office.[52]

In the post, Spurlock also said that he was accused of sexual assault while in college.[10]Spurlock wrote that while still "in college, a girl who I hooked up with on a one night stand accused me of rape. Not outright. There were no charges or investigations, but she wrote about the instance in a short story writing class and called me by name." He wrote: "This wasn't how I remembered it at all [...] She believed she was raped. That’s why I’m part of the problem." Spurlock said both he and the woman had been heavily drinking the night of the incident, and that during sex she had begun crying, and they had stopped.[3][53]

After publishing his blog post, Spurlock stepped down from his position with Warrior Poets, the company he had co-founded in 2004.[54]The move ended his career as a documentary filmmaker.[10]Spurlock told theAssociated Pressin 2019: "For me, there was a moment of kind of realization—as somebody who is a truth-teller and somebody who has made it a point of trying to do what's right—of recognizing that I could do better in my own life. We should be able to admit we were wrong."[11]Additionally, he toldDeadline:"Part of the reason I wrote that essay in the first place was to be on the right side of it. I'm hopeful that in time, with the work that I do and the changes that I continue to go through, that I can be there on the right side."[55]

In the blog post, Spurlock further disclosed that he had been the victim of sexual abuse as a boy and teenager, and that he had “consistently been drinking since the age of 13.”[3]

Spurlock released a sequel film,Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!,in 2017,[56]to be distributed byYouTube Red,but it was dropped following Spurlock's admission of sexual misconduct. Samuel Goldwyn Films instead distributed the film in September 2019.[57]In October 2022,The Washington Postreported that Spurlock had "suffered career death" as a result of his misconduct.[58]

Personal life

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Spurlock's marriages to Priscilla Sommer, Alexandra Jamieson, and Sara Bernstein all ended in divorce.[19]He had two children.[10]

Spurlock was raisedMethodist.He stated in an interview withTV Guidein 2014 that he was agnostic.[10][59]

Death

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On May 23, 2024, Spurlock died from complications ofcancer;he was 53 years old.[13][60][61][62]Varietysaid that Spurlock died inupstate New York,whileThe New York Timessaid that he died in New York City.[10][19]

Bibliography

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  • Spurlock, Morgan (2005).Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America.New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons.ISBN0-399-15260-1.
  • Spurlock, Morgan (2008).Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?.New York, NY: Random House.ISBN978-1-4000-6652-0.
  • Spurlock, Morgan (2011).Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope.DK. p. 192.ISBN978-0756683429.

Filmography

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Films

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Year Film Role Notes
1994 Léon: The Professional Production assistant: New York[7]
1995 Kiss of Death Office production assistant[63][64]
2004 Super Size Me Himself director, screenwriter[7]
2004 The Future of Food Executive producer[65]
2004 Czech Dream Executive producer[65]
2006 Chalk Executive producer[65]
2006 Class Act Executive producer[66]
2007 Drive Thru Robbie, The Hella-Burger Manager[67]
2007 The Third Wave Executive producer[68][69]
2007 What Would Jesus Buy? Producer[65]
2008 Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? Himself Director, writer[65]
2008 Last Cup: Road to the World Series of Beer Pong Executive producer[70][71]
2009 The Entrepreneur Executive producer[72][73]
2009 Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days Himself[74][75][76]
2009 New Brow: Contemporary Underground Art Himself[77][78]
2009 Abraham Obama Himself
2010 Freakonomics Himself Director, writer (segment "A Roshanda by Any Other Name" ), narrator[79]
2010 Pool Party Executive producer[80][81]
2011 POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold Himself Director, executive producer, writer[65][82]
2011 Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope Director, writer, producer[65][83]
2011 The Other F Word Executive producer[84]
2011 How We Covered It Himself
2011 The Unauthorized Documentary,The Hangover Part II Himself[85][86]
2012 Mansome Himself Director, writer, producer[65][87]
2012 Knuckleball! Executive producer[88]
2012 Glue Man Himself Stars[89]
2013 One Direction: This Is Us Director, producer[90]
2013 Web Junkie Executive producer[91]
2013 Dancing in Jaffa Executive producer[92]
2013 Waiting for Mamu Executive producer[93][94]
2013 Chronic-Con, Episode 420: A New Dope Himself
2013 You Don't Know Jack Director, writer[95][96]
2013 Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery Himself[97]
2014 A Brony Tale Executive producer[98][99]
2014 I Am Santa Claus Executive producer[100][101]
2014 We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss Director, producer[102][103]
2014 That Film About Money Executive producer[104]
2015 Man Under Executive producer[105]
2015 Censored Voices Executive producer[106][107]
2015 Made in Japan Executive producer[108][109]
2015 I Am Dale Earnhardt Himself[110]
2015 Crafted Director[111]
2015 The Princess of North Sudan Producer[112][113]
2016 Rats Director, writer[114]
2016 The Eagle Huntress Executive producer[115][116]
2017 Tough Guys Executive producer[117]
2017 No Man's Land Executive producer[118][119]
2017 Good After Bad Executive producer[120][121]
2017 Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! Himself Director, writer, producer[7]

Television

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Year Show Role Notes
2002 I Bet You Will Host TV series[122]
2004 Last Laugh '04 Himself not credited, TV movie
2004 Know Your Enemy: Al Qaeda's Third Wave Executive producer, TV movie[123]
2005 The 50 Greatest Documentaries Himself TV movie[124]
2005 Merry F %$in' Christmas Himself TV movie[125]
2005 30 Days Himself Creator, Executive producer, host[126]
2010 The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice! Himself Director[127]
2011 A Day in the Life Director, Executive producer[128][129]
2012 Morgan Spurlock's New Britannia Himself Writer, host[130]
2013 Morgan Spurlock Inside Man Himself Director, writer, Executive producer[131]
2013 Losing It with John Stamos Creator, Executive producer[132]
2014 7 Deadly Sins Host Executive producer, Creator[133][134]

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