Michael Apted

Michael Apted is a producing Réalisateur and British born the February 10th 1941 with Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Great Britain.

Apted studies initially the Droit and the Histoire to the Université of Cambridge. It begins its career with the Télévision while working as researcher for Granada Television, becoming finally director of the station. For this period in Granada, it carries out several episodes of Coronation Street .

For its work on television, Apted gains several British Academy Awards, including for the best dramatic realizer.

Apted is directed towards the cinema in 1972 and directs its first feature-length film already very discussed by its engagement antimilitarist and its questioning on the sexual identity, The Triple Echo based on the news of H.E. Packsaddlled entitled Soldier in Skirts , in which an young woman hiding place a deserter to play by Brian Deacon by making it pass for her sister. In 1979, it connects with Agatha, a drama interpreted by Dustin Hoffman and Vanessa Redgrave and bearing on the mysterious disappearance of Agatha Christie in 1926.

It leaves to the the United States in 1980 and directs its first American film there, the Girl of the minor ( Coal Miner' S Daughter ), who receives several nomination with the Oscars. In addition, Apted carries out also several documentary, in particular the series 7 up which since 1963 follows the same group of people, then 7 years old, at a rate of a film every 7 years (latest to date 49 Up in 2005)

In 1999, Apted carried out film of James Bond the world is not enough .

The June 29th 2003 it is elected president of the Directors Guild off America .

It will carry out Le Monde de Narnia 3: The odyssey of the frontier runner of dawn in 2009.

Catalog of films

See too

  • List of documentarists by continent
  • Michael Apted on Internet Movie Database

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