Sad news - Director Robert Mulligan, who brought To Kill A Mockingbird to life on the screen, has passed away.

Robert Mulligan, a Hollywood director best known for the 1962 classic film “To Kill a Mockingbird,” died on Saturday at his home in Lyme, Conn. He was 83.

The cause was heart disease, his nephew Robert Rosenthal said.

Mr. Mulligan received an Academy Award nomination for the film, based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about rape, racism and injustice in the Depression-era South.

Rest In Peace.