The Bronx-born filmmaker whose credits include the influential Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985) died in his sleep after a “brief but agressive battle with lung cancer.”
Hollywood is paying tribute to George A Romero, the horror maestro who shaped the zombie genre, after his passing at the age of 77.
As he died, Romero was listening to the score of The Quiet Man, one of his favourite films, with his wife, Suzanne Desrocher Romero, and daughter, Tina Romero.
Romero followed up his Living Dead trilogy with Land of the Dead (2005), Diary of the Dead (2007) and, most recently in 2009, Survival of the Dead.