Craig Gilbert Dies: Creator Of Groundbreaking ‘An American Family’ Documentary Series Was 94
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deadline.comBy Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway Critic Craig Gilbert, a documentarian whose candid and controversial 1973 PBS series An American Family would later be credited as a forerunner of reality TV (to his chagrin), died April 10 in New York City following a brief illness.
He was 94. The director’s death was announced on his official website and confirmed by friend John Mulholland, director of the 2013 documentary Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen, executive produced by Gilbert. “Craig had been in good shape until late February,” Mulholland told Deadline, “when he started to fail.
In early April, it became difficult for him to get out of bed.” Mulholland said Gilbert died in his sleep, with a medical examiner ruling natural causes.
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