Michael Apted
FILE – Michael Apted arrives at the BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards on Oct. 25, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Apted, the acclaimed British director of the “Up” documentaries series and films as diverse as the Loretta Lynn biopic “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and the James Bond film “The World is Not Enough” has died. A representative for the Directors Guild of America said his family informed the organization that he passed Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. He was 79. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)