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Michael Apted, Director of ‘Up’ Documentaries and ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter,’ Dies at 79

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Also Read: Tommy Lasorda, World Series Champion and Dodgers Legend, Dies at 93Apted’s landmark series of “Up” documentary films date back to 1963 when he directed an episode of “World Plus Action” that sought to profile a group of British children, all 7 years old and all from different backgrounds, and he then revisited those same children seven years later in “7 Plus Seven” in 1970 to see how they had changed.

Apted continued those films every seven years even as others declined to participate or at least one participant passed away.

And his final film from 2019 was “63 Up,” which caught up with the individuals again as they are now all 63. Roger Ebert had referred to the series as among the greatest films ever made, and the films in many.

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