LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Marshall Flaum, a visionary documentarian and five-time Emmy-winning producer-director-writer, died October 1 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications following hip surgery. He was 85.
During a 55-year career, Flaum's work included collaborations with Jacques Cousteau, Jane Goodall, David Wolper, Jack Haley Jr. and Hanna-Barbera, with subjects ranging from Lyndon Johnson and Frank Lloyd Wright to James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
In the first of his two Oscar-nominated docs, "The Yanks Are Coming" (1963), Flaum created what he called "the entertainment documentary." He became one of the first in his field to integrate popular music of the time with stock footage of World War I.
"Let My People Go: The Story of Israel" (1965), for which he received his second Academy Award nomination and a Peabody Award, examined the plight of the Jews.
After serving in the Army in World War II and studying acting at the University of Iowa, Flaum headed to Broadway and appeared with Basil Rathbone in "Julius Caesar" and with Olivia de Havilland in "Romeo and Juliet" in the early 1950s while studying acting with Lee Strasberg.
In 1957, he began a six-year stint at CBS as a writer, story editor and associate producer
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