Cinema verite pioneer Leacock dies in Paris at 89

NEW YORK - RICHARD Leacock, a documentary filmmaker and pioneer of the unobtrusive camera technique cinema verite who followed John F. Kennedy on his presidential campaign and was seen by some as the grandfather of reality television, has died at age 89.

Leacock died in Paris on Wednesday, said his daughter, Victoria Leacock Hoffman, of New York. He had been in declining health and had taken several recent falls, she said in an email.

24 Mar, 2011

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