* Gregory B. Shuker; Documentary Filmmaker

Gregory B. Shuker, 67, a documentary filmmaker whose work earned awards at Cannes and Venice. Shuker was a Life magazine reporter in 1959 when he discovered its then-experimental television unit, Drew Associates, and moved into documentary filmmaking. Using the cinema verite style, Shuker next joined the Public Broadcast Laboratory, forerunner of PBS, and helped create two pioneering films, “The Chair,” about an attorney trying to save a condemned man, and “Free at Last,” about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “The Chair” won the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and “Free at Last” earned an Emmy and first prize at the Venice Film Festival. Shuker earned a grand prize at Venice for “Faces in November,” a documentary depicting mourners at the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Shuker’s other credits included a 1965 documentary called “Letters From Vietnam” and a 1967 ABC-TV special titled “Twiggy: Why?” which included an interview with media theorist Marshall McLuhan. On Wednesday in New York of liver cancer.