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Coal Miner’s Daughter helmer Michael Apted dies at 79
ComingSoon.net is saddened to report (via The Hollywood Reporter) that acclaimed British director Michael Apted, the man behind the
Up series of documentaries and a number of celebrated films, has passed away at the age of 79.
The exact cause of death and timing are currently unknown, but Roy Ashton from the Gersh Agency confirmed to
THR that the director, who served three terms as the Directors’ Guild of America President from 2003-09, had died.
“
His legacy will be forever woven into the fabric of cinema and our guild,” DGA president Thomas Schlamme said in a statement. “
Michael Apted, director known for â7 Upâ series, dies at 79
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Michael Apted, director known for â7 Upâ series, dies at 79
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Los Angeles: Michael Apted, a versatile director whose films were as varied as the James Bond picture
The World Is Not Enough and the biographical dramas
Gorillas in the Mist and
Coal Miner s Daughter, and who made his most lasting mark with the
Seven Up documentary series, which followed the lives of a group of British people in seven-year intervals for more than a half century, died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 79.
Enigma,
Chasing Mavericks.
A key component of Apted s concerns was supporting his union, and he joined the Directors Guild of America in 1978, and became active in guild service in 1997, when he was first elected to the Western Directors Council. In 2001, he was elected to the National Board and became fifth vice president the following year. He also founded (alongside Steven Soderbergh) the Guild’s Independent Directors Committee in 1998, and served as chair until he was elected president of the guild. Whether having the foresight as a young man to conceptualize the revolutionary
Up documentary series or helming large-scale features, whether negotiating directors’ rights throughout our industry’s digital revolution, or advocating for independent filmmakers and inclusion, Michael’s search for the truth and what’s right was evident in all that he endeavored, current DGA president Thomas Schlamme said in a statement.