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‘Up’ documentary maker Michael Apted dies at 79
SUBMIT PICTURE: Director Michael Apted takes part in a panel for POV “56 Up” throughout the PBS sessions at the Tv Critics Association summer season press trip in Beverly Hills, California August 6, 2013. REUTERS/Phil McCarten/File Image
January 13, 2021
(Reuters) – British filmmaker Michael Apted, the male behind the “Up” documentaries that narrated the lives of a group of British kids for more than 50 years, has actually passed away at the age of 79, his U.S. representative stated on Friday.
Apted likewise directed Hollywood films varying from the 1999 James Bond hit “The World is Not Enough” to the Loretta Lynn nation vocalist bio “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and lots of TELEVISION programs, consisting of episodes of British soap “Coronation Street” in the 1967.
Apted passed away on Thursday at his Los Angeles house, Roy Ashton, his representative in the United States, stated. Information of his death were not offered.
Apted’s most noteworthy task was the “Up” series. It started in 1964 as a tv documentary about the hopes and imagine 14 7 year-old kids from varied backgrounds who Apted reviewed every 7 years to see how their lives had actually altered.
The series, which won several awards throughout the years, was influenced by the stating “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” The most current, “63 Up,” was launched in 2019.
The Academy of Movement Pictures stated on Friday that Apted “will always be remembered for the groundbreaking documentary “Up” series.
Apted was born in Britain, went to Cambridge University and began his profession as a scientist at Britain’s Granada Tv, where the concept for the very first “Up” documentary was born.
In later on life, he relocated to Los Angeles and directed lots of films, consisting of “Gorillas in the Mist,” thriller “Gorky Park,” “Thunder Heart” and “Enigma.” He worked as president of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) from 2003-2009.
DGA president Thomas Schlamme on Friday called him a buddy and a “fearless visionary as a director.”
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; modifying by Grant McCool)
SUBMIT PICTURE: Director Michael Apted takes part in a panel for POV “56 Up” throughout the PBS sessions at the Tv Critics Association summer season press trip in Beverly Hills, California August 6, 2013. REUTERS/Phil McCarten/File Image
January 13, 2021
(Reuters) – British filmmaker Michael Apted, the male behind the “Up” documentaries that narrated the lives of a group of British kids for more than 50 years, has actually passed away at the age of 79, his U.S. representative stated on Friday.
Apted likewise directed Hollywood films varying from the 1999 James Bond hit “The World is Not Enough” to the Loretta Lynn nation vocalist bio “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and lots of TELEVISION programs, consisting of episodes of British soap “Coronation Street” in the 1967.
Apted passed away on Thursday at his Los Angeles house, Roy Ashton, his representative in the United States, stated. Information of his death were not offered.
Apted’s most noteworthy task was the “Up” series. It started in 1964 as a tv documentary about the hopes and imagine 14 7 year-old kids from varied backgrounds who Apted reviewed every 7 years to see how their lives had actually altered.
The series, which won several awards throughout the years, was influenced by the stating “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” The most current, “63 Up,” was launched in 2019.
The Academy of Movement Pictures stated on Friday that Apted “will always be remembered for the groundbreaking documentary “Up” series.
Apted was born in Britain, went to Cambridge University and began his profession as a scientist at Britain’s Granada Tv, where the concept for the very first “Up” documentary was born.
In later on life, he relocated to Los Angeles and directed lots of films, consisting of “Gorillas in the Mist,” thriller “Gorky Park,” “Thunder Heart” and “Enigma.” He worked as president of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) from 2003-2009.
DGA president Thomas Schlamme on Friday called him a buddy and a “fearless visionary as a director.”
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; modifying by Grant McCool)
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