Michael Apted

Michael Apted

1941-02-10 Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK 88 Credits

Biography

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 nomin...

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Belushi

Belushi

2020

as Self (archive footage)

6.9
Acting

Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J. Cutler’s documentary feature examines the too-short lif...

63 Up

63 Up

2019

as Himself - Interviewer/Narrator (voice)(uncredited)

7.3
Acting

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have oc...

63 Up

63 Up

2019

Director

7.3
Directing

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have oc...

7 Up & Me

7 Up & Me

2019

as Self

7.5
Acting

In celebration of the release of 63 Up, the 2019 installment of Michael Apted's groundbreaking documentary series that began in 1964, a number of Brit...

CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion

CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion

2018

as Self

5.2
Acting

An investigation into the way media portrayals impact the actual inclusion of people with disabilities in society.

Hillbilly

Hillbilly

2018

as Self

7.0
Acting

A documentary that examines the cultural stereotype of the people of Appalachia and how that has affected America's relationship with its rural commun...

Unlocked

Unlocked

2017

Director

6.2
Directing

After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a c...

Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl

Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl

2016

as Self - Director, Coal Miner's Daughter

8.0
Acting

Explore the country legend's hard-fought road to stardom. From her Appalachian roots to the Oscar-winning biopic of her life, Coal Miner's Daughter, L...

Bending the Light

Bending the Light

2014

as Himself (voice)

3.5
Acting

From acclaimed director Michael Apted (The Up Series, Masters of Sex, The World is Not Enough) comes a revealing look at the art of filmmaking and pho...

Bending the Light

Bending the Light

2014

Director

3.5
Directing

From acclaimed director Michael Apted (The Up Series, Masters of Sex, The World is Not Enough) comes a revealing look at the art of filmmaking and pho...

Chasing Mavericks

Chasing Mavericks

2012

Director

7.0
Directing

Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.

56 Up

56 Up

2012

as Interviewer/Narrator (voice)

7.2
Acting

When a cross-section of seven-year-olds were interviewed for 7 Up in 1964 it was immediately evident that their social backgrounds influenced their at...

56 Up

56 Up

2012

Director, Producer

7.2
Directing Producing

When a cross-section of seven-year-olds were interviewed for 7 Up in 1964 it was immediately evident that their social backgrounds influenced their at...

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

2010

Director

6.4
Directing

This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantasti...

The Power of the Game

The Power of the Game

2007

Director

Directing

Six intertwining stories showcase the social impact of football across the world.

The Grand Finale

The Grand Finale

2006

Director

5.7
Directing

The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to ...

Married in America 2

2006

Director

1.0
Directing

From award-winning director Michael Apted, MARRIED IN AMERICA 2 is the second film in an ongoing documentary about the challenges of marriage in the 2...

49 Up

49 Up

2006

as Interviewer/Narrator (voice)

7.4
Acting

49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-based Granada's World in Action team, inspired by the ...

49 Up

49 Up

2006

Director, Producer

7.4
Directing Producing

49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-based Granada's World in Action team, inspired by the ...

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace

2006

Director

6.9
Directing

The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, bu...

Best Ever Bond

2002

as Self

5.0
Acting

Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.

Lipstick

Lipstick

2002

Director

3.0
Directing

Emily hangs with her friends, plays soccer and looks forward to graduation. She also has a secret girlfriend. Will her friends still love her when she...

Married in America

Married in America

2002

Director

Directing

Following the experiences of a handful of couples over the course of a decade, producer Michael Apted shows how this ancient institution expresses its...

Enough

Enough

2002

Director

6.7
Directing

Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of thei...

Enigma

Enigma

2001

Director

6.4
Directing

The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.

Me & Isaac Newton

Me & Isaac Newton

2000

Director

Directing

Seven of today's top scientist/researchers are the subject of this humourous exploration of real people behind the white lab coats; more about what ma...

James Bond Down River

2000

as Self

5.0
Acting

Promotional documentary filmed at the London East End Docklands area and River Thames for the filming of the opening boat chase for The World Is Not E...

Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn

Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn

2000

as Self

5.7
Acting
42 Up

42 Up

1999

as Interviewer/Narrator (voice)

7.6
Acting

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have oc...

42 Up

42 Up

1999

Director, Producer

7.6
Directing Producing

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have oc...

The World Is Not Enough

The World Is Not Enough

1999

Director

6.3
Directing

Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress fro...

Always Outnumbered

Always Outnumbered

1998

Director

6.4
Directing

An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighb...

Inspirations

1997

Director

6.8
Directing

This latest documentary film by Michael Apted explores the creative process through candid discussion with seven artists from diverse media. David Bow...

Extreme Measures

Extreme Measures

1996

Director

6.0
Directing

Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency roo...

Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema

Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema

1995

6.7
Acting

Stephen Frears and a quartet of film industry notables - representing different cinematic periods - drink tea and discuss ups and downs of British cin...

Nell

Nell

1994

Director

6.6
Directing

In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell — a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.

Moving the Mountain

1994

Director

7.8
Directing

ON JUNE 4th 1989, CHINA WAS CHANGED FOREVER. Beijing, May, 1989. the world watched as a hundred students became a thousand, as thousands became a mil...

Blink

Blink

1993

Director

6.2
Directing

Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having pro...

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Bram Stoker's Dracula

1992

Executive Producer

7.4
Producing

In 19th century England, Count Dracula travels to London and meets Mina Harker, a young woman who appears as the reincarnation of his lost love.

Incident at Oglala

Incident at Oglala

1992

Director

7.0
Directing

On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, two FBI agents were killed in a shootout with a grou...

Thunderheart

Thunderheart

1992

Director

6.3
Directing

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.

35 Up

35 Up

1991

as Interviewer/Narrator (voice)(uncredited)

7.7
Acting

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have oc...

35 Up

35 Up

1991

Director, Producer

7.7
Directing Producing

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have oc...

Class Action

Class Action

1991

Director

6.3
Directing

A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie ag...

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice

1990

Executive Producer

6.4
Producing

A knife-scarred victim must identify her assailant beyond a reasonable doubt. Meanwhile the accused is offered a deal if he pleads guilty. Is he as in...

The Long Way Home

1989

Director, Cinematography

7.0
Directing

A documentary about Boris Grebenshikov, frontman of the legendary Russian art-rock band Akvarium ("Аквариум"). It was filmed as part of promo campaign...

Gorillas in the Mist

Gorillas in the Mist

1988

Director

7.0
Directing

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Critical Condition

Critical Condition

1987

Director

5.5
Directing

Eddie is a con artist. When he's framed and comes before a judge, he hopes to get off the hook by climbing insanity—but instead ends up in a hospital ...

Spies Like Us

Spies Like Us

1985

as Ace Tomato Agent

6.2
Acting

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.

Sting - Bring on the Night

Sting - Bring on the Night

1985

Writer, Director

6.9
Writing Directing

Bring on the Night is a 1985 documentary film, that focuses on the jazz-inspired project and band led by the British musician Sting during the early s...

28 Up

28 Up

1984

as Interviewer/Narrator (voice)

7.5
Acting

Just two years away from turning 30, participants in Michael Apted's documentary series are facing serious questions of identity and purpose, wonderin...

28 Up

28 Up

1984

Director, Producer

7.5
Directing Producing

Just two years away from turning 30, participants in Michael Apted's documentary series are facing serious questions of identity and purpose, wonderin...

Firstborn

Firstborn

1984

Director

6.0
Directing

Because he's the oldest, Jake has been the man of the house, since his parents divorce. When Mom starts seeing Sam, who always seems to be trying some...

The River Rat

The River Rat

1984

Executive Producer

6.2
Producing

On the lazy banks of the Mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her time-served but innocent father. But the reunion is tainted with the whereabou...

Gorky Park

Gorky Park

1983

Director

6.3
Directing

Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his s...

P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang

P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang

1982

Director

7.0
Directing

Summer, 1948. 14-year-old Alan has just three wishes: that there will be lasting peace, that England will win the Ashes, and that he will finally kiss...

Continental Divide

Continental Divide

1981

Director

6.1
Directing

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

Coal Miner's Daughter

Coal Miner's Daughter

1980

Director

7.2
Directing

Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

Agatha

Agatha

1979

Director

6.2
Directing

England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.

Stronger Than the Sun

Stronger Than the Sun

1978

Director

Directing

Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is. S...

21 Up

21 Up

1977

as Interviewer/Narrator (voice)

7.4
Acting

After another 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! and 7 Plus Seven. The subjects are i...

21 Up

21 Up

1977

Director, Producer

7.4
Directing Producing

After another 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! and 7 Plus Seven. The subjects are i...

The Squeeze

The Squeeze

1977

Director

5.8
Directing

An alcoholic London ex-cop becomes involved in a kidnapping drama and tries to free the daughter of a friend from a brutal gangster mob.

The Paradise Run

1976

Director

Directing

Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy. However, desertion wil...

The Collection

The Collection

1976

Director

5.7
Directing

Set in the rarefied world of West End boutique owners and fashion designers, The Collection takes as its departure point the moment when four elegant ...

Wednesday Love

Wednesday Love

1975

Director

Directing

Two women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.

Haunted: Poor Girl

Haunted: Poor Girl

1974

Director

7.0
Directing

An Edwardian governess finds herself trapped inside a haunted house.

Stardust

Stardust

1974

Director

5.8
Directing

Jim MacLaine is now enjoying the nomadic 'gigs and groupies' life on tour with his band. When he achieves all his wildest dreams of international star...

Jack Point

Jack Point

1973

Director

Directing

Rivalry at a local Gilbert and Sullivan Society over who will play Jack Point in the Silver Jubilee production. Rowland Matthews has always been the m...

Highway Robbery

Highway Robbery

1973

Director

Directing

Terry and his family fight against a planned eviction when the council decides on a road building programme and their house is in its path.

Kisses at Fifty

Kisses at Fifty

1973

Director

Directing

A father leaves his grown-up family to move in with his lover in the south, alienating himself from his four children.

The Triple Echo

The Triple Echo

1972

Director

6.0
Directing

After her husband is captured during WWII, homesteader Alice is forced to maintain their land herself. One day, a wandering soldier named Barton stops...

The Reporters

The Reporters

1972

Director

Directing

Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who previously wrote for a failed na...

Said the Preacher

1972

Director

Directing

"I like preaching... Only two things in my life have ever excited me as much: playing football and making love." But his congregation feel he's gone ...

Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.

Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.

1972

Director

Directing

Mr. Armistead is the referee for an amateur league Sunday Football match. Disliked and abused by all the players he tries to play fair and ensure they...

The Mosedale Horseshoe

1971

Director

Directing

The story of four Lakeland walkers who attempt to climb a fell. The fells represent the highlight of their year. They all have dull and uninteresting ...

7 Plus Seven

7 Plus Seven

1970

as Interviewer/Narrator (voice)

7.3
Acting

After a 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! The subjects are interviewed as to the cha...

7 Plus Seven

7 Plus Seven

1970

Director

7.3
Directing

After a 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! The subjects are interviewed as to the cha...

The Day They Buried Cleaver

1970

Director

Directing

The Chief Constable of a grimy northern town runs it his particular way with all natural human failings, bending the rules for the benefit of the majo...

Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It

1970

Director

Directing

A group of business enjoying a lavish night on expenses at the Atlantis Hotel fear it is the end of the road for their fradulent collaboration when th...

Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar

Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar

1968

Director

5.0
Directing

Edgar Lunt lives his life by scientific principles, that is, for every action there is a reaction. He believes that any pleasure he might have, will m...

Number Ten

1968

Director

Directing

The Prime Minister heads a cabinet divided on the question of either using force against an African state, or referring the matter to the United Natio...

There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah

There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah

1968

Director

Directing

A skiving bin gang are on high alert when their new inspector takes an interest.

It’s Dearer After Midnight

It’s Dearer After Midnight

1968

Director

Directing

A two-hander, set in a fictional Northern city, featuring Keith Barron as a taxi driver and Sian Phillips as the customer he takes to a strip club in ...

Who Pays?

1968

Director

Directing

After a scout troupe is tragically mowed down by a truck, responsibility passes around the driver, the poorly sited roadworks and the scout master for...

Son of the City

1967

Director

Directing

Welfare worker Carol is attacked in a swimming pool by the attendant George Lease.

Seven Up!

Seven Up!

1964

Researcher

7.2

A group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. The filmmakers plan to re-interview them...

Section 1591

Section 1591

N/A

Executive Producer

Producing

Victims trafficked for sex, advocates who assist the victims, and the hunter. A retired Delta Force operative, puts in place systems to assist those w...