Remembering Michael Apted: How the ‘Up’ Series Shaped Cinema… and Its Director

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Michael Apted, the acclaimed British director behind the revolutionary series of decades-spanningSeven Updocumentaries and features includingCoal Miner's Daughter,NellandThe World Is Not Enough,has died. He was 79.

Up documentaries, has died aged 79.Apted died on Thursday (January 7) at his home in Los Angeles, his US agent Roy Ashton confirmed. No cause of death has yet been revealed.Apted’s Up series began in 1964, where the filmmaker met 14 seven-year-olds from diverse backgrounds.

(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.

Michael Apted, the acclaimed British director of the “Up” documentaries series and films as diverse as the Loretta Lynn biopic “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and the James Bond film “The World Is Not Enough,” has died. He was 79.A representative for the Directors Guild of America said his family informed the organization that he passed Thursday night.