Michael Apted

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Michael Apted

Born 1941-02-10 Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK 19 films

Michael David Apted CMG (10 February 1941 – 7 January 2021) was an English television and film director and producer. Apted began working in television and directed the Up documentary series from 1970 to 2019. He later directed Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. His subsequent work included Gorillas in the Mist (1988), Nell (1994), the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999), and Enig…

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Filmography

19 films
Belushi poster

Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J. Cutl…

Belushi

★ 7.0 2020

63 Up poster

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subj…

63 Up

★ 7.3 2019

7 Up & Me poster

In celebration of the release of 63 Up, the 2019 installment of Michael Apted's groundbreaking docu…

7 Up & Me

★ 7.5 2019

Hillbilly poster

A documentary that examines the cultural stereotype of the people of Appalachia and how that has af…

Hillbilly

★ 7.0 2018

56 Up poster

When a cross-section of seven-year-olds were interviewed for 7 Up in 1964 it was immediately eviden…

56 Up

★ 7.2 2012

49 Up poster

49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-bas…

49 Up

★ 7.4 2006

Best Ever Bond poster

Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cas…

Best Ever Bond

★ 5.7 2002