John Korty Cause Of Death: How Did Filmmaker John Korty Die?

John Korty was an American film director and animator, best known for the television film The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and the documentary Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, as well as the theatrical animated feature Twice Upon a Time.

John Korty has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (for Who Are the DeBolts?) and several other major awards.

John Korty is described by the film critic Leonard Maltin as “a principled filmmaker who has worked both outside and within the mainstream, attempting to find projects that support his humanistic beliefs.”

John Korty was active in the medium from the early 1970s until the late 1990s and became known in the field in 1972 as director of The People. The film starred Kim Darby and William Shatner, was produced by Francis Ford Coppola, and was based on the science-fiction novel The Pilgrimage by Zenna Henderson.

In 1974, John Korty won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and a Directors Guild of America award for his filmed adaptation of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

John Korty died on March 9, 2022 at his home in Point Reyes Station, aged 85.

A cause of death was not given.