Michael Apted

Michael Apted

Born 02/10/1941
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Died 01/08/2021 (79 years old)
Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography (1)

MICHAEL APTED has a career that spans four decades and includes triumphs in motion pictures, television and as one of the industry's most respected documentarians. He was first attracted to movies at the age of 16 when he saw Ingmar Bergman's "Wild Strawberries." Although he went on to study history and law at Cambridge University, the Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire native began his filmmaking career fresh out of college as a researcher for Granada Television. That… (more)

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Director

Movies
2017

Unlocked

2012

Chasing Mavericks

2011

Hallelujah (TV movie)

2010

The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

2006

Amazing Grace

2002

Enough

2001

Enigma

1999

Nathan Dixon (TV movie)

 

The World Is Not Enough

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1998

Always Outnumbered (TV movie)

1996

Extreme Measures

1994

Nell

1993

Blink

1992

Thunderheart

1991

Class Action

1989

Long Way Home, The (TV movie)

1988

Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey

1987

Critical Condition

1984

Firstborn

 

P'tang Yang Kipperbang (TV movie)

1983

Gorky Park

1981

Continental Divide

1980

Coal Miner's Daughter

1979

Agatha

1977

Stronger Than the Sun (TV movie)

 

The Squeeze

1976

The Collection (TV movie)

1974

Stardust

1973

High Kampf (TV movie)

 

Jack Point (TV movie)

 

Kisses at Fifty (TV movie)

1972

Another Sunday and Sweet F.A. (TV movie)

 

Joy (TV movie)

 

Reporters, The (TV movie)

 

The Triple Echo

Series
2017

Bloodline

 

Part 30 (S03E07)

2016

Ray Donovan

 

Little Bill Primm's Big Green Horseshoe (S04E03)

2015

Masters of Sex

 

Full Ten Count (S03E12)

2014

Masters of Sex

 

Mirror, Mirror (S02E08)

 

Fight (S02E03)

 

Kyrie Eleison (S02E02)

 

Parallax (S02E01)

 

Reckless

2013

Masters of Sex

 

Love and Marriage (S01E08)

 

Catherine (S01E05)

 

Ray Donovan

 

Same Exactly (S01E12)

2006

What About Brian

 

What About the Fish (S02E04)

2005

Rome

 

An Owl in a Thornbush (S01E03)

 

How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic (S01E02)

 

The Stolen Eagle (S01E01)

1995

New York News

1992

Crossroads

1991

My Life and Times

1976

Plays for Britain

1974

Childhood

1970

The Lovers

1969

Big Breadwinner Hog

1967

Haunted

Documentaries
2019

63 Up

2014

Bending the Light

2012

56 Up (TV movie)

2006

Married in America 2 (TV movie)

 

The Fifa 2006 World Cup Film: The Grand Finale

2005

49 Up (TV movie)

2002

Married in America (TV movie)

1999

Me & Isaac Newton

1998

42 Up (TV movie)

1997

Inspirations

1994

Moving the Mountain

1992

Incident at Oglala

1991

35 Up (TV movie)

1985

28 Up (TV movie)

 

Bring on the Night

1977

21 Up (TV movie)

1970

Seven Plus Seven (TV movie)

Actor

Movies
1985

Spies Like Us

Documentaries
2020

Belushi (TV movie)

2018

CinemAbility

 

Hillbilly

2014

Bending the Light

2013

Bond's Greatest Moments (TV movie)

2012

56 Up (TV movie) - narrator

2009

Hollywood's Best Film Directors (series)

2006

Married in America 2 (TV movie) - narrator

2005

The 50 Greatest Documentaries (TV movie)

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2002

Best Ever Bond (TV movie)

2000

Now Pay Attention 007

1999

And the Word Was Bond

 

Making of 'The World Is Not Enough', The

 

The James Bond Story (TV movie)

1998

42 Up (TV movie)

1997

A Personal History of British Cinema by Stephen Frears (TV movie)

1983

Making of 'Gorky Park', The (TV movie)

Producer

Documentaries
1970

Seven Plus Seven (TV movie)

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