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

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 prolific in television as in film, with the now-lost 1967 British supernatural series Haunted amon...

Every seven years, he followed the lives of 14 British youths; he also made “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “Nell” and other feature films.

Michael Apted, filmmaker behind innovative ‘Seven Up!’ documentary series, dies at 79 Tim Greiving Michael Apted, the innovative filmmaker behind the “Up” documentary series, which chronicled a group of British people for more than 50 years, who also made such varied feature films as “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and “The World Is Not Enough,” died Jan. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 79. Cort Kristensen, a producer at Mr. Apted’s film company, confirmed the death. The cause was undisclosed. His training as a documentarian lent an unfussy naturalism ...

Michael Apted His body of work also included 'Gorky Park,' 'Gorillas in the Mist, 'The World Is Not Enough' and 'Nell.' Michael Apted, the acclaimed British director behind the revolutionary series of decades-spanning  Seven Up documentaries and features including  Coal Miner's Daughter,  Nell and  Roy Ashton at the Gersh Agency confirmed Apted's death to The Hollywood Reporter. A spokesperson for the DGA said he died Thursday night in Los Angeles. No cause of death was immediately available. Apted made his feature directorial debut with the war saga  The Triple Echo (1972), starrin...