Michael Apted
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.
Best Ever Bond
(Self)
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
(Self - Director, Coal Miner's Daughter)
Bending the Light
(Himself (voice))
CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion
(Self)
Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn
(Self)
Spies Like Us
(Ace Tomato Agent)
Hillbilly
(Self)
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
21 Up
(Interviewer/Narrator (voice))
35 Up
(Interviewer/Narrator (voice)(uncredited))
42 Up
(Interviewer/Narrator (voice))
49 Up
(Interviewer/Narrator (voice))
56 Up
(Interviewer/Narrator (voice))
7 Plus Seven
(Interviewer/Narrator (voice))
28 Up
(Interviewer/Narrator (voice))
7 Up & Me
(Self)
Belushi
(Self (archive footage))
63 Up
(Himself - Interviewer/Narrator (voice)(uncredited))
James Bond Down River
(Self)
63 Up
(Self (interviewer) (uncredited))
Nell
(Director)
Enough
(Director)
Gorillas in the Mist
(Director)
Enigma
(Director)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
(Director)
Extreme Measures
(Director)
42 Up
(Director)
21 Up
(Director)
28 Up
(Director)
35 Up
(Director)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
(Executive Producer)
Agatha
(Director)
Gorky Park
(Director)
Thunderheart
(Director)
Critical Condition
(Director)
Sting: Bring on the Night
(Writer)
Sting: Bring on the Night
(Director)
Incident at Oglala
(Director)
Stardust
(Director)
Continental Divide
(Director)
Always Outnumbered
(Director)
49 Up
(Director)
The World Is Not Enough
(Director)
Amazing Grace
(Director)
Coal Miner's Daughter
(Director)
The Triple Echo
(Director)
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
(Director)
Class Action
(Director)
7 Plus Seven
(Director)
Firstborn
(Director)
Chasing Mavericks
(Director)
The Squeeze
(Director)
Inspirations
(Director)
56 Up
(Director)
56 Up
(Producer)
The Collection
(Director)
Lipstick
(Director)
The Power of the Game
(Director)
Moving the Mountain
(Director)
The Paradise Run
(Director)
Criminal Justice
(Executive Producer)
Blink
(Director)
Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
(Director)
21 Up
(Producer)
The Long Way Home
(Director)
The Long Way Home
(Cinematography)
Kisses at Fifty
(Director)
28 Up
(Producer)
Stronger Than the Sun
(Director)
35 Up
(Producer)
Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar
(Director)
42 Up
(Producer)
Bending the Light
(Director)
Unlocked
(Director)
49 Up
(Producer)
Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
(Director)
The Mosedale Horseshoe
(Director)
The Day They Buried Cleaver
(Director)
Number Ten
(Director)
Me & Isaac Newton
(Director)
It’s Dearer After Midnight
(Director)
Married in America 2
(Director)
Who Pays?
(Director)
Son of the City
(Director)
Said the Preacher
(Director)
Seven Up!
(Researcher)
The Reporters
(Director)
Wednesday Love
(Director)
Highway Robbery
(Director)
Jack Point
(Director)
The Grand Finale
(Director)
63 Up
(Director)
Married in America
(Director)
There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah
(Director)
Haunted: Poor Girl
(Director)
The River Rat
(Executive Producer)
What About Brian
(Director)
Rome
(Writer)
Rome
(Director)
Rome
(Producer)
Blind Justice
(Director)
New York News
(Director)
Play for Today
(Director)
Follyfoot
(Director)
Black and Blue
(Director)
POV
(Director)
My Life and Times
(Director)
Crossroads
(Producer)
Ray Donovan
(Director)
Laurence Olivier Presents
(Director)
Masters of Sex
(Director)
Shades of Greene
(Director)
63 Up
(Director)
The Up Series
(Director)
The Up Series
(Producer)
Bloodline
(Director)
Married in America
(Creator)