his teens and had been a vigorous supporter of Adolf Hitler, but had turned against the Nazis and spoke widely about his transformation. The film won a 1992 Emmy Award for News & Documentary. He also created documentaries about life behind the Iron Curtain which were broadcast on ABC, producing and directing the 1967 film The Beautiful Blue and Red Danube and Cuba: The Castro Generation in 1977. His 1972 work Chile: Experiment in Red documented life under the rule of Salvador Allende. A resident of Greenwich, Connecticut since 1955, Holch later learned that he came from one of the city's founding families. At the time of his death he was working on Greenwich: The Golden Apple: Big Bucks, Big Names, Big Deals, a book about Greenwich over the past two centuries. Holch died in a hospital in Greenwich at the age of 86 on September 23, 2010, due to heart failure. He was survived by his wife, the former Ellen O'Keefe Hare, as well as by four daughters, three sons, and seven grandchildren. References 1924 births 2010 deaths American documentary filmmakers Emmy Award winners People from Denver People from Greenwich, Connecticut Artists from Omaha, Nebraska Medill School of Journalism alumni University of Denver alumni United States Army officers United States Army reservists American expatriates in Japan Military personnel from Colorado