Up documentary series and Oscar-nominated features including
Coal Miner s Daughter and
Gorillas in the Mist, has died at 79.
His agency confirmed his death to EW, but no additional information was available.
Apted first rose to prominence for his work on the groundbreaking
Up films, which followed the lives of 14 Brits from different class backgrounds over the course of 56 years, in seven-year increments. Apted was a researcher on the first installment, 1964 s
Seven Up, and helmed the rest, concluding with
63 Up in 2019.
Coal Miner s Daughter, Sigourney Weaver in
Gorillas in the Mist, and Jodie Foster in
Nell. Spacek won the award, for her portrayal of country singer Loretta Lynn.
Michael Apted, Coal Miner s Daughter and Up series director, dies at 79 Maureen Lee Lenker
Michael Apted, the British filmmaker known for directing the long-running
Up documentary series and Oscar-nominated features including
Coal Miner s Daughter and
Gorillas in the Mist, has died at 79.
His agency confirmed his death to EW, but no additional information was available.
Apted first rose to prominence for his work on the groundbreaking
Up films, which followed the lives of 14 Brits from different class backgrounds over the course of 56 years, in seven-year increments. Apted was a researcher on the first installment, 1964 s
Seven Up, and helmed the rest, concluding with
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 to an eclectic Hollywood career, and for four decades the English-born Mr. Apted helmed 21 feature films in a variety of genres from the Cold War thriller “Gorky Park” (1983), starring William Hurt, to the family blockbuster “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” (2010), his highest-grossing hit.