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63 Up came out in 2019, and he said he hoped to release 84 Up at age 99. He's pictured above at the Dubai International Film Festival in December 2012. Andrew H. Walker / Getty Images for DIFF Originally published on January 9, 2021 7:28 am Film director Michael Apted died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles, according to his agent, Roy Ashton. No details of his death were given. At 79, Apted left behind a body of work ranging from biopics to a James Bond movie to a celebrated documentary series that established Apted as a pioneering longitudinal filmmaker. Apted's audience literally g...

Tributes paid to Bond director and 7-Up documentarian Michael Apted who has died at 79 Joe Middleton © Provided by The Independent The British filmmaker was most well-known known for the Up series, which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964, as well as directing Coal Miner's Daughter and Gorillas In The Mist. He also directed the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, which starred Pierce Brosnan, and a number of episodes of Coronation Street in the 1960s. Thomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America (DGA), paid tribute to Apted in a state...

Enigma, Chasing Mavericks. A key component of Apted's concerns was supporting his union, and he joined the Directors Guild of America in 1978, and became active in guild service in 1997, when he was first elected to the Western Directors Council. In 2001, he was elected to the National Board and became fifth vice president the following year. He also founded (alongside Steven Soderbergh) the Guild’s Independent Directors Committee in 1998, and served as chair until he was elected president of the guild. "Whether having the foresight as a young man to conceptualize the revolutionary Up...

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’s son. Tony Walker (Aldo Arcilla/PA) Walker, 65, originally from Bethnal Green in east London, told ...

Director Michael Apted has died at the age of 79 (Ian West/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Filmmaker Michael Apted was no stranger to a Hollywood blockbuster, but his enduring legacy will be the Up documentary series – an intimate, profound insight into Britain’s social history. Originally planned as a one-off for Granada Television, producers in the early 1960s plucked a group of children from various backgr...