Los Angeles (AP) – British director Michael Apted, who became known through films such as “Gorky Park”, “Gorillas in the fog” and “James Bond 007 – The world is not enough”, is dead.
He died on Thursday in his home in Los Angeles, as his spokesman Roy Ashton announced to the dpa. The cause of death was initially not known. Apted was 79 years old.
Born in Britain, he had his first major success in Hollywood in 1980 with the biopic “Nashville Lady” (“Coalminer’s Daughter”). Sissy Spacek won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as country singer Loretta Lynn. Apted makes films as diverse as the Moscow crime thriller “Gorky Park”, “Gorillas im Nebel” about gorilla researcher Dian Fossey, “The world is not enough” with Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007 and the fantasy flick “The Chronicles of Narnia: The journey on the dawn ».
He also directed the award-winning documentary series Up, which has followed the lives of fourteen British children into adulthood since the 1960s. The last of the nine episodes, seven years apart, came out in 2019.
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