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With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve…Read more Apted began his career in the 1960s, with Granada Television. Working as a researcher for the broadcaster, he gathered the school-age subjects for an episode of the current affairs program World In Action. That 1964 documentary, Seven Up!, depicted the lives of 14 seven-year-olds representing various British social classes; in 1970, those same children were profiled in a follow-up, 7 ...

Michael Apted, the acclaimed British director of the Up documentary series and filmslike the Coal Miner’s Daughter and The World Is Not Enough, has died. He was 79.

Michael Apted, Director Of Up Series, Dies At 79 Michael Apted, Director Of The director was best known for Up, a pioneering documentary series which followed the lives 14 Britons from different backgrounds, starting from when they were seven in 1964 A photo of Michael Apted. (Image courtesy: AFP) Highlights He also directed 1998 Bond film The World Is Not Enough 1980s Coal Miners Daughter was helmed by Michael Apted London: British director Michael Apted, best known for the generation-s...

Covid hotspots with highest & fastest-rising infection rates revealed as cases soar across UK Updated: 9 Jan 2021, 9:13 Invalid Date, BARKING and Dagenham has recorded the highest coronavirus infection rate in the UK as only one area reported a fall in cases in the whole of England. More than 3,500 new cases were reported in the London hotspot between December 28 and January 4 - the equivalent of 1687.1 per 100,000 people. 7 7 All boroughs except Richmond upon Thames, South-West London, saw a...

The World is Not Enough and the big-screen adaptation of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010). Through the course of his career, he would go on to work with a host of A-list acting talent from film generations both old and new, with two of his films collecting a total of 8 Academy Award nominations. Coal Miner’s Daughter (starring Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn) received 7 Oscar nods, while Nell (starring Jodie Foster in 1994 as a woman isolated from society) received one. Apted was equally...

Acclaimed British director Michael Apted has died

British director, best known for Seven Up and Gorillas in the Mist, has died.

A cast member in Michael Apted’s Up documentary series has paid tribute to the director as a “beacon of light” after his death aged 79. Tony Walker, an actor and London taxi driver, was selected for the project from an East End primary school in 1963 and went on to become one its best-known characters. He stayed a close friend of Apted, attending screenings of his later films, including James Bond feature The World Is Not Enough in 1999, and his granddaughter remains friends with Apted’...

An incredibly prolific director, Apted’s legacy is perhaps most defined by the nine "Up" films, which followed the lives of 14 economically diverse British children from age 7 to 63.

Michael Apted, the 'James Bond' director and creator of the 'Up' series of documentaries, has died aged 79, his US agent has confirmed.