George A Romero Dies, Age 77

George A Romero, who created the genre-defining Living Dead movie franchise, has died at the age of 77, his manager has said.
Romero died in his sleep on Sunday with his wife and daughter at his side, after a "brief but aggressive battle" with lung cancer, Chris Roe said.
Romero co-wrote and directed the film that started the zombie series Night of the Living Dead in 1968.
It led to a number of sequels - and a slew of imitators.
Mr Roe said Mr Romero died listening to the score of The Quiet Man, "one of his all-time favourite films".

At the time of its release, Night of the Living Dead was criticised for being gory but it went on to be a cult classic and shape horror and zombie films for decades.
While it did not use the word zombies, it was the first film to depict cannibalistic reanimated corpses.
Previous films had shown zombies as being living people who had been bewitched through voodoo.
Mr Romero had a non-starring and uncredited role in the film as a news reporter.

Romero is often noted as one of the most influential pioneers of the horror film genre, and will be remembered as "Father of the Zombie Film"