Marshall Flaum, 85, an award-winning producer, director, and writer who specialized in documentaries, died Oct. 1 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications after hip surgery, his family said.
Mr. Flaum won five Emmy Awards, had several more nominations, and was twice nominated for an Academy Award, for the documentaries The Yanks Are Coming (1963) and Let My People Go: The Story of Israel (1965). Mr. Flaum wrote, directed, and produced both documentaries.
Mr. Flaum, who was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., served in the Army during World War II, then studied acting at the University of Iowa, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1948.
