Film director Michael Apted died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles, according to his agent, Roy Ashton. No details of his death were given. At 79, Apted left behind a body of work ranging from ...

Michael Apted likes to think that the last instalment of the ground-breaking documentary series that began with '7 Up' is still twenty-eight years away. In 2040, Apted will be 99 years old and he ...

Michael Apted, British director of the “ Up ” series of documentaries, as well as “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “Gorillas in the Mist” (1988), James Bond film “The World Is Not Enough” (1999) and “The ...

British filmmaker and documentarian Michael Apted died Thursday night in Los Angeles at the age of 79, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) announced in a statement Friday. British filmmaker and ...

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 backgrounds. That made him 15 years senior to his ...

“7 Up” wasn’t Michael Apted’s idea. In 1964, he was assigned to help create one short documentary about the societal upheavals going on in England. “In England, there were volcanic changes in social ...

Michael Apted, the acclaimed British director of the “Up” documentary series and films as diverse as the Loretta Lynn biopic “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and the James Bond film “The World Is Not Enough,” ...

Acclaimed British director Michael Apted has died. He was 79. A representative for the Directors Guild of America said his family informed the organization that he died Thursday night. No cause was ...