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Michael Apted (1941-2021)

Alias:
Michael David Apted
迈克尔·阿普特德

Birthplace:
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Born:
February 10, 1941

Died:
January 8, 2021

Biography from TheMovieDB

Michael David Apted, CMG (10 February 1941 – January 8, 2021) was a British director, producer, writer and actor. One of the most prolific English film directors of his generation, he is known for directing: the Up series (1964–2019), the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999), and the American film, Coal Miner's Daughter (1980); the latter being nominated for seven Academy Awards, including for the Best Picture. He also directed Nell (1994), which received three Golden Globe Award nominations and one Academy Award nomination.  On 29 June 2003, he was elected president of the Directors' Guild of America. He returned to television, directing the first three episodes of the TV series Rome (2005). Apted directed Amazing Grace, which premiered at the closing of the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Cinematography:
1989  The Long Way Home

Director:
1967  Son of the City
1968  It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968  Number Ten
1968  There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah
1968  Who Pays?
1968  Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar
1970  7 Plus Seven
1970  Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
1970  The Day They Buried Cleaver
1971  The Mosedale Horseshoe
1972  Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
1972  Said the Preacher
1972  The Reporters
1972  The Triple Echo
1973  Highway Robbery
1973  Jack Point
1973  Kisses at Fifty
1974  Haunted: Poor Girl
1974  Stardust
1975  Wednesday Love
1976  The Collection
1976  The Paradise Run
1977  21 Up
1977  The Squeeze
1978  Stronger Than the Sun
1979  Agatha
1980  Coal Miner's Daughter
1981  Continental Divide
1982  P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
1983  Gorky Park
1984  28 Up
1984  Firstborn
1985  Sting: Bring on the Night
1987  Critical Condition
1988  Gorillas in the Mist
1989  The Long Way Home
1991  35 Up
1991  Class Action
1992  Incident at Oglala
1992  Thunderheart
1993  Blink
1994  Moving the Mountain
1994  Nell
1996  Extreme Measures
1997  Inspirations
1998  Always Outnumbered
1999  42 Up
1999  The World Is Not Enough
2000  Me & Isaac Newton
2001  Enigma
2002  Enough
2002  Lipstick
2002  Married in America
2006  49 Up
2006  Amazing Grace
2006  Married in America 2
2006  The Grand Finale
2007  The Power of the Game
2010  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2012  56 Up
2012  Chasing Mavericks
2014  Bending the Light
2017  Unlocked
2019  63 Up

Executive Producer:
1967  Son of the City
1968  It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968  Number Ten
1968  There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah
1968  Who Pays?
1968  Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar
1970  7 Plus Seven
1970  Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
1970  The Day They Buried Cleaver
1971  The Mosedale Horseshoe
1972  Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
1972  Said the Preacher
1972  The Reporters
1972  The Triple Echo
1973  Highway Robbery
1973  Jack Point
1973  Kisses at Fifty
1974  Haunted: Poor Girl
1974  Stardust
1975  Wednesday Love
1976  The Collection
1976  The Paradise Run
1977  21 Up
1977  The Squeeze
1978  Stronger Than the Sun
1979  Agatha
1980  Coal Miner's Daughter
1981  Continental Divide
1982  P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
1983  Gorky Park
1984  28 Up
1984  Firstborn
1984  The River Rat
1985  Sting: Bring on the Night
1987  Critical Condition
1988  Gorillas in the Mist
1989  The Long Way Home
1990  Criminal Justice
1991  35 Up
1991  Class Action
1992  Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992  Incident at Oglala
1992  Thunderheart
1993  Blink
1994  Moving the Mountain
1994  Nell
1996  Extreme Measures
1997  Inspirations
1998  Always Outnumbered
1999  42 Up
1999  The World Is Not Enough
2000  Me & Isaac Newton
2001  Enigma
2002  Enough
2002  Lipstick
2002  Married in America
2006  49 Up
2006  Amazing Grace
2006  Married in America 2
2006  The Grand Finale
2007  The Power of the Game
2010  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2012  56 Up
2012  Chasing Mavericks
2014  Bending the Light
2017  Unlocked
2019  63 Up

Producer:
1967  Son of the City
1968  It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968  Number Ten
1968  There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah
1968  Who Pays?
1968  Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar
1970  7 Plus Seven
1970  Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
1970  The Day They Buried Cleaver
1971  The Mosedale Horseshoe
1972  Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
1972  Said the Preacher
1972  The Reporters
1972  The Triple Echo
1973  Highway Robbery
1973  Jack Point
1973  Kisses at Fifty
1974  Haunted: Poor Girl
1974  Stardust
1975  Wednesday Love
1976  The Collection
1976  The Paradise Run
1977  21 Up
1977  The Squeeze
1978  Stronger Than the Sun
1979  Agatha
1980  Coal Miner's Daughter
1981  Continental Divide
1982  P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
1983  Gorky Park
1984  28 Up
1984  Firstborn
1984  The River Rat
1985  Sting: Bring on the Night
1987  Critical Condition
1988  Gorillas in the Mist
1989  The Long Way Home
1990  Criminal Justice
1991  35 Up
1991  Class Action
1992  Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992  Incident at Oglala
1992  Thunderheart
1993  Blink
1994  Moving the Mountain
1994  Nell
1996  Extreme Measures
1997  Inspirations
1998  Always Outnumbered
1999  42 Up
1999  The World Is Not Enough
2000  Me & Isaac Newton
2001  Enigma
2002  Enough
2002  Lipstick
2002  Married in America
2006  49 Up
2006  Amazing Grace
2006  Married in America 2
2006  The Grand Finale
2007  The Power of the Game
2010  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2012  56 Up
2012  Chasing Mavericks
2014  Bending the Light
2017  Unlocked
2019  63 Up

Researcher:
1964  Seven Up!
1967  Son of the City
1968  It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968  Number Ten
1968  There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah
1968  Who Pays?
1968  Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar
1970  7 Plus Seven
1970  Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
1970  The Day They Buried Cleaver
1971  The Mosedale Horseshoe
1972  Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
1972  Said the Preacher
1972  The Reporters
1972  The Triple Echo
1973  Highway Robbery
1973  Jack Point
1973  Kisses at Fifty
1974  Haunted: Poor Girl
1974  Stardust
1975  Wednesday Love
1976  The Collection
1976  The Paradise Run
1977  21 Up
1977  The Squeeze
1978  Stronger Than the Sun
1979  Agatha
1980  Coal Miner's Daughter
1981  Continental Divide
1982  P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
1983  Gorky Park
1984  28 Up
1984  Firstborn
1984  The River Rat
1985  Sting: Bring on the Night
1987  Critical Condition
1988  Gorillas in the Mist
1989  The Long Way Home
1990  Criminal Justice
1991  35 Up
1991  Class Action
1992  Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992  Incident at Oglala
1992  Thunderheart
1993  Blink
1994  Moving the Mountain
1994  Nell
1996  Extreme Measures
1997  Inspirations
1998  Always Outnumbered
1999  42 Up
1999  The World Is Not Enough
2000  Me & Isaac Newton
2001  Enigma
2002  Enough
2002  Lipstick
2002  Married in America
2006  49 Up
2006  Amazing Grace
2006  Married in America 2
2006  The Grand Finale
2007  The Power of the Game
2010  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2012  56 Up
2012  Chasing Mavericks
2014  Bending the Light
2017  Unlocked
2019  63 Up

Writer:
1964  Seven Up!
1967  Son of the City
1968  It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968  Number Ten
1968  There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah
1968  Who Pays?
1968  Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar
1970  7 Plus Seven
1970  Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
1970  The Day They Buried Cleaver
1971  The Mosedale Horseshoe
1972  Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
1972  Said the Preacher
1972  The Reporters
1972  The Triple Echo
1973  Highway Robbery
1973  Jack Point
1973  Kisses at Fifty
1974  Haunted: Poor Girl
1974  Stardust
1975  Wednesday Love
1976  The Collection
1976  The Paradise Run
1977  21 Up
1977  The Squeeze
1978  Stronger Than the Sun
1979  Agatha
1980  Coal Miner's Daughter
1981  Continental Divide
1982  P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
1983  Gorky Park
1984  28 Up
1984  Firstborn
1984  The River Rat
1985  Sting: Bring on the Night
1987  Critical Condition
1988  Gorillas in the Mist
1989  The Long Way Home
1990  Criminal Justice
1991  35 Up
1991  Class Action
1992  Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992  Incident at Oglala
1992  Thunderheart
1993  Blink
1994  Moving the Mountain
1994  Nell
1996  Extreme Measures
1997  Inspirations
1998  Always Outnumbered
1999  42 Up
1999  The World Is Not Enough
2000  Me & Isaac Newton
2001  Enigma
2002  Enough
2002  Lipstick
2002  Married in America
2006  49 Up
2006  Amazing Grace
2006  Married in America 2
2006  The Grand Finale
2007  The Power of the Game
2010  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2012  56 Up
2012  Chasing Mavericks
2014  Bending the Light
2017  Unlocked
2019  63 Up

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TV Performances

  • 2019  63 Up
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TV Production

Creator:
????  Married in America

Director:
1964  The Up Series
1970  Play for Today
1971  Follyfoot
1973  Black and Blue
1975  Shades of Greene
1976  Laurence Olivier Presents
1988  POV
1991  My Life and Times
1995  New York News
2005  Blind Justice
2005  Rome
2006  What About Brian
2013  Masters of Sex
2013  Ray Donovan
2015  Bloodline
2019  63 Up
????  Married in America

Producer:
1964  The Up Series
1970  Play for Today
1971  Follyfoot
1973  Black and Blue
1975  Shades of Greene
1976  Laurence Olivier Presents
1988  POV
1991  My Life and Times
1992  Crossroads
1995  New York News
2005  Blind Justice
2005  Rome
2006  What About Brian
2013  Masters of Sex
2013  Ray Donovan
2015  Bloodline
2019  63 Up
????  Married in America

Writer:
1964  The Up Series
1970  Play for Today
1971  Follyfoot
1973  Black and Blue
1975  Shades of Greene
1976  Laurence Olivier Presents
1988  POV
1991  My Life and Times
1992  Crossroads
1995  New York News
2005  Blind Justice
2005  Rome
2006  What About Brian
2013  Masters of Sex
2013  Ray Donovan
2015  Bloodline
2019  63 Up
????  Married in America

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