Michael Apted
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.
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Movies (81)
Sophie Marceau, à voix haute
2026 · Self (archive footage)
Belushi
2020 · Self (archive footage)
63 Up
2019 · Self - Interviewer/Narrator (voice)(uncredited), Director
7 Up & Me
2019 · Self
CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion
2018 · Self
Hillbilly
2018 · Self
Código abierto
2017 · Director
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
2016 · Self - Director, Coal Miner's Daughter
Bending the Light
2014 · Himself (voice), Director
Chasing Mavericks: Pasión por las olas
2012 · Director
56 Up
2012 · Interviewer/Narrator (voice), Director, Producer
Las Crónicas de Narnia 3: La Travesía del Viajero del Alba
2010 · Director
The Power of the Game
2007 · Director
Sublime gracia
2007 · Director
The Grand Finale
2006 · Director
Married in America 2
2006 · Director
49 Up
2006 · Interviewer/Narrator (voice), Director, Producer
Best Ever Bond
2002 · Self
Lipstick
2002 · Director
Married in America
2002 · Director
Nunca más
2002 · Director
Enigma
2001 · Director
Me & Isaac Newton
2000 · Director
James Bond Down River
2000 · Self
Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn
2000 · Self
42 Up
1999 · Interviewer/Narrator (voice), Director, Producer
007: El mundo no basta
1999 · Director
Always Outnumbered
1998 · Director
Inspirations
1997 · Director
Medidas extremas
1996 · Director
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
1995
Una mujer llamada Nell
1994 · Director
Moving the Mountain
1994 · Director
Blink
1993 · Director
Drácula de Bram Stoker
1992 · Executive Producer
Age 7 in America
1992 · Producer
Incident at Oglala
1992 · Director
Corazón De Trueno
1992 · Director
35 Up
1991 · Interviewer/Narrator (voice)(uncredited), Director, Producer
Acción judicial
1991 · Director
Criminal Justice
1990 · Executive Producer
The Long Way Home
1989 · Cinematography, Director
Gorillas in the Mist
1988 · Director
Critical Condition
1987 · Director
Spies Like Us
1985 · Ace Tomato Agent
Sting - Bring on the Night
1985 · Director, Writer
28 Up
1985 · Interviewer/Narrator (voice), Director, Producer
Seven Up!
1985 · Researcher
Firstborn
1984 · Director
The River Rat
1984 · Executive Producer
Gorky Park
1983 · Director
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
1982 · Director
Continental Divide
1981 · Director
Coal Miner's Daughter
1980 · Director
Agatha
1979 · Director
Stronger Than the Sun
1978 · Director
21 Up
1977 · Interviewer/Narrator (voice), Director, Producer
The Squeeze
1977 · Director
The Paradise Run
1976 · Director
The Collection
1976 · Director
Wednesday Love
1975 · Director
Haunted: Poor Girl
1974 · Director
Stardust
1974 · Director
Jack Point
1973 · Director
Highway Robbery
1973 · Director
Kisses at Fifty
1973 · Director
The Triple Echo
1972 · Director
The Reporters
1972 · Director
Said the Preacher
1972 · Director
Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
1972 · Director
The Mosedale Horseshoe
1971 · Director
7 Plus Seven
1970 · Interviewer/Narrator (voice), Director
The Day They Buried Cleaver
1970 · Director
Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
1970 · Director
Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar
1968 · Director
Number Ten
1968 · Director
There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah
1968 · Director
It’s Dearer After Midnight
1968 · Director
Who Pays?
1968 · Director
Son of the City
1967 · Director
Section 1591
· Executive Producer
TV shows (27)
63 Up
2019 · Self (interviewer) (uncredited), Director
Bloodline
2015 · Director
Masters of Sex
2013 · Director
Ray Donovan
2013 · Director
What About Brian
2006 · Director
Roma
2005 · Producer, Writer, Director
Blind Justice
2005 · Director
New York News
1995 · Director
Crossroads
1992 · Producer
My Life and Times
1991 · Director
POV
1988 · Director
Childhood
1977 · Director
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976 · Director
Plays for Britain
1976 · Director
Shades of Greene
1975 · Director
Black and Blue
1973 · Director
Follyfoot
1971 · Director
Play for Today
1970 · Director
The Sinners
1970 · Director
Big Breadwinner Hog
1969 · Director
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · Director
City '68
1967 · Director
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Director
Escape
1967 · Director
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Director
The Up Series
1964 · Director, Producer
Married in America
· Creator