Michael Lennick, the documentary filmmaker whose credits included the award-winning 10-part series Rocket Science and Doctor Teller's Very Large Bomb, both of which aired on PBS, has died. He was 61. His friend Chris Darling, one of the producers of Warner Bros.' upcoming Robert Downey Jr. film Perry Mason and The Lost Legion, told The Hollywood Reporter that Lennick died Friday in Toronto from an aggressive brain tumor that landed him in the hospital a month ago. He was surrounded by friends and family when he died Friday after being taken off life support. See more Hollywood's
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