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Award-winning British filmmaker Michael Apted has died.

Up documentary series and Oscar-nominated features including Coal Miner's Daughter and Gorillas in the Mist, has died at 79. His agency confirmed his death to EW, but no additional information was available. Apted first rose to prominence for his work on the groundbreaking Up films, which followed the lives of 14 Brits from different class backgrounds over the course of 56 years, in seven-year increments. Apted was a researcher on the first installment, 1964's Seven Up, and helmed the rest, concluding with 63 Up in 2019. Coal Miner's Daughter, Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist, a...

His body of work also included 'Gorky Park,' 'Gorillas in the Mist, 'The World Is Not Enough' and 'Nell.'

Michael Apted, Coal Miner's Daughter and Up series director, dies at 79 Maureen Lee Lenker Michael Apted, the British filmmaker known for directing the long-running Up documentary series and Oscar-nominated features including Coal Miner's Daughter and Gorillas in the Mist, has died at 79. His agency confirmed his death to EW, but no additional information was available. Apted first rose to prominence for his work on the groundbreaking Up films, which followed the lives of 14 Brits from different class backgrounds over the course of 56 years, in seven-year increments. Apted...