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Michael Apted's subjects, collaborators shed light on future of documentary series Up After Michael Apted's death last week at the age of 79, he left behind not only his enormous artistic undertaking with Up, but also a nontraditional family unit in his documentary subjects and colleagues. Every seven years or so for more than half a century, filmmaker Michael Apted returned to what he referred to as his life’s work: documenting the same ordinary people he’d known since they were 7 years old. Throughout nine instalments of the Up series — which ...

Apted's most notable project was the 'Up' series. Apted directed Hollywood movies ranging from the 1999 James Bond blockbuster 'The World is Not Enough' to the Loretta Lynn country singer biography 'Coal Miner's Daughter'. DGA president Thomas Schlamme on Friday called him a friend and a "fearless visionary as a director." British filmmaker Michael Apted, the man behind the 'Up' documentaries that chronicled the lives of a group of British children for more than 50 years, has died at the age of 79, his U.S. agent said on Friday (January 8). Apted also directed Hollywood movies ranging from t...