Michael Apted

Birthday:
02/10/1941
Place of birth:
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK:
Biography:
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 Enigma (2001). His film Amazing Grace (2006) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival that year. On 29 June 2003, he was elected president of the Directors Guild of America, a position he served until 2009. He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Apted, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Credits

Belushi (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
63 Up (2019)
as Himself - Interviewer/Narrator (voice)(uncredited)
7 Up & Me (2019)
as Self
CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion (2018)
as Self
Hillbilly (2018)
as Self
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl (2016)
as Self - Director, Coal Miner's Daughter
Bending the Light (2014)
as Himself (voice)
56 Up (2012)
as Interviewer/Narrator (voice)
49 Up (2006)
as Interviewer/Narrator (voice)
Best Ever Bond (2002)
as Self
James Bond Down River (2000)
as Self
Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn (2000)
as Self
42 Up (1999)
as Interviewer/Narrator (voice)
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema (1995)
35 Up (1991)
as Interviewer/Narrator (voice)(uncredited)
Spies Like Us (1985)
as Ace Tomato Agent
28 Up (1984)
as Interviewer/Narrator (voice)
21 Up (1977)
as Interviewer/Narrator (voice)
7 Plus Seven (1970)
as Interviewer/Narrator (voice)
63 Up
Director
Unlocked
Director
Bending the Light
Director
Chasing Mavericks
Director
56 Up
Director
56 Up
Producer
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Director
The Power of the Game
Director
The Grand Finale
Director
Married in America 2
Director
49 Up
Director
49 Up
Producer
Amazing Grace
Director
Lipstick
Director
Married in America
Director
Enough
Director
Enigma
Director
Me & Isaac Newton
Director
42 Up
Director
42 Up
Producer
The World Is Not Enough
Director
Always Outnumbered
Director
Inspirations
Director
Extreme Measures
Director
Nell
Director
Moving the Mountain
Director
Blink
Director
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Executive Producer
Incident at Oglala
Director
Thunderheart
Director
35 Up
Director
35 Up
Producer
Age 7 in America
Producer
Class Action
Director
Criminal Justice
Executive Producer
The Long Way Home
Director
The Long Way Home
Cinematography
Gorillas in the Mist
Director
Critical Condition
Director
Sting - Bring on the Night
Director
Sting - Bring on the Night
Writer
28 Up
Director
28 Up
Producer
Firstborn
Director
The River Rat
Executive Producer
Gorky Park
Director
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
Director
Continental Divide
Director
Coal Miner's Daughter
Director
Agatha
Director
Stronger Than the Sun
Director
21 Up
Director
21 Up
Producer
The Squeeze
Director
The Paradise Run
Director
The Collection
Director
Wednesday Love
Director
Haunted: Poor Girl
Director
Stardust
Director
Jack Point
Director
Highway Robbery
Director
Kisses at Fifty
Director
The Triple Echo
Director
The Reporters
Director
Said the Preacher
Director
Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
Director
The Mosedale Horseshoe
Director
The Day They Buried Cleaver
Director
7 Plus Seven
Director
Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
Director
Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar
Director
Number Ten
Director
There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah
Director
It’s Dearer After Midnight
Director
Who Pays?
Director
Son of the City
Director
Seven Up!
Researcher
Section 1591
Executive Producer

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