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 the 1999 James Bond blockbuster The World is Not Enough to the Loretta Lynn country singer biography Coal Miner s Daughter and dozens of TV shows, including episodes of British soap Coronation Street in the 1967.
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(Reuters) - 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.
Apted also 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” and dozens of TV shows, including episodes of British soap “Coronation Street” in the 1967.
Apted died on Thursday at his Los Angeles home, Roy Ashton, his agent in the United States, said. Details of his death were not available.
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