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Patricia Loud, the matriarch of the Loud family in the TV documentary An American Family, died Sunday at home from natural causes. She was 94. The news of Loud’s death was confirmed on the official Loud Facebook page. “With inconsolable sorrow, we are sad to share the news with friends and family that on Sunday…

Craig Gilbert, a documentarian whose candid and controversial 1973 PBS series An American Family would later be credited as a forerunner of reality TV (to his chagrin), died April 10 in New York City following a brief illness. He was 94. The director’s death was announced on his official website and confirmed by…