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  1. Jan 11, 2021 · Apted had a different, more critical idea of what the Up project should be about than its initiators did—and in the end, it was his vision that defined it. “It was Paul's film,” he told Radio Times in 2012, “but he was more interested in making a beautiful film about being seven, whereas I wanted to make a nasty piece of work about ...

  2. Jan 9, 2021 · Peter Bradshaw. Fri 8 Jan 2021 17.31 EST. M ichael Apted, who has died aged 79, was a British movie director who – like Ken Loach and Ken Russell – earned his stripes working on TV.

  3. In 2006, Apted co-directed The Official Film of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, narrated by Pierce Brosnan. [41] Apted was the collaborator and subject of the documentary: Michael AptedVisions on Film, by artist and filmmaker Melinda Camber Porter.

    • 7 January 2021 (aged 79), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    • 1963–2019
    • Television and film director, producer
    • Michael David Apted, 10 February 1941, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
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  5. Jan 10, 2021 · By Peter Debruge. ASSOCIATED PRESS. Michael Apted was 22 when he joined the crew of “Seven Up!,” a British made-for-television documentary that profiled 14 children from different class...

  6. Michael Apted, the film director best known for a series of documentaries depicting the lives of a group of British citizens roughly once every seven years from childhood through their 60s,...

  7. Jan 9, 2021 · Obituary. Michael Apted, 1941-2021: tributes paid to ‘visionary’ director of Up series. The film-maker held up ‘a mirror to society’ with his pioneering documentaries. Harriet Sherwood....

  8. Jan 10, 2021 · Michael Apted died Thursday in Los Angeles at the age of 79. NPR's Neda Ulaby has our remembrance. NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: Michael Apted's expansive vision ranged from "Seven Up!" to 007.