Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Robert M. Fresco died February 14 of cancer at the age of 83.
He began his career as a screenwriter on pictures like Tarantula (1955), and The Monolith Monsters (1957), The Alligator People (1959).
Fresco and his co-producer, Denis Sanders, won an Academy Award in 1969 for the short documentary Czechoslovakia 1968 which explored the background of the Prague uprising of 1968.
[Thanks to Andrew Porter for the story.]