Robert M. Young, whose 70-year career included independent and studio documentaries, narrative features, and episodes of Battlestar: Galactica, died Tuesday in Los Angeles at 99.
His death was confirmed in a Facebook post by his son. Two of his films have recently been added to the Library of Congress Film Registry.
They include ¡Alambrista! (1977), a film about the life of an undocumented Mexican immigrant, which won the Camera d’Or for best first film at Cannes, and The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, (1982), one of Young’s eight films with actor Edward James Olmos.
Based on a true story that inspired a corrido, it tells of a man on the run after a confrontation with police. Both films are also part of the Criterion Collection.
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