Michael Apted

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Michael David Apted CMG (10 February 1941 – 7 January 2021) was an English television and film director and producer. Apted began working in television and directed the Up documentary series from 1970 to 2019. He later directed Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. His subsequent work included Gorillas in the Mist (1988), Nell (1994), the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999), and Enigma (2001). His film Amazing Grace (2006) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival that year. On 29 June 2003, he was elected president of the Directors Guild of America, a position he served until 2009. He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Apted, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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2026
Sophie Marceau, à voix haute
Movie Self (archive footage)
2020
Belushi
Movie Self (archive footage)
2019
63 Up
TV show Self (interviewer) (uncredited)
2019
63 Up
Movie Self - Interviewer/Narrator (voice)(uncredited)
2019
7 Up & Me
Movie Self
2018
CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion
Movie Self
2018
Hillbilly
Movie Self
2017
Unlocked
Movie Director
2016
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
Movie Self - Director, Coal Miner's Daughter
2015
Bloodline
TV show Director
2014
Bending the Light
Movie Himself (voice)
2013
Masters of Sex
TV show Director
2013
Ray Donovan
TV show Director
2012
Chasing Mavericks
Movie Director
2012
56 Up
Movie Interviewer/Narrator (voice)
2010
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Movie Director