Obituaries - April 30, 1996

Fred G. Sullivan Jr., 50, who created the film “The Beer Drinker’s Guide to Fitness and Film Making.” His 1980s independent film, which became a cult favorite after it was introduced at the Sundance Film Festival, was a quirky self-portrait of Sullivan as a struggling filmmaker. The director of development at Paul Smith College, Sullivan also wrote, directed and produced a feature film in 1981 titled “Cold River,” about two orphaned children in the wilderness. On April 18 in Saranac Lake, N.Y., of heart failure.