Madeline Stuart: Los Angeles

Mel Stuart Dept: His daughter, Madeline Stuart, said he died Thursday night of cancer at his home in Los Angeles, according to CBC. Stuart's documentaries during those years include The Making of the President 1960 , about the race between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, which was completed just before Kennedy's assassination. He won an Emmy for the documentary and went on to explore the campaigns of 1964 and 1968, basing his work on Theodore White's Pulitzer-winner books about the campaign. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Mel Stuart, an award-winning American documentarian who also directed Willy Wonka a the Chocolate Factory , has died. He was 83. Mel Stuart, shown Aug. 18, 2011, died Thursday in Los Angeles of cancer. He was 83. StarPix/ Marion Curtis/Associated Press During the 1960s and 1970s, Stuart was associated with David L. Wolper, with whom he established a base of West Coast documentary production at a time when New York filmmakers and TV networks' news divisions dominated the field. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.