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Birthplace:
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
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Versatile director Michael Apted's fondness for both documentaries and dramas has provided him with a balance and perspective matched by few of his contemporaries. Beginning his career with England's Granada Television first as a researcher, then director, notably of the long-running soap "Coronation Street", he branched into features at the helm of "Triple Echo" (1973), an off-beat wartime romance in which Oliver Reed falls for an AWOL soldier disguised as a woman. Apted displayed his enthusiasm for the music scene with his follow-up, "Stardust" (1974), chronicling the rise and fall of a
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Joined Granada TV as a trainee, then worked as researcher for current-affairs program "World in Action"; later directed episodes of "All Our Yesterdays" and "Coronation Street" in the mid-1960s
1963
Served as assistant to director Paul Almond on "7 Up" (Granada TV); broadcast on PBS in 1987
1965
Became producer-director for local programs and current affairs; then staff director of TV series, plays (directed over 50) and serials
1970
Helmed "Seven Plus Seven", a documentary update for Granada TV of Almond's "7 Up"
1973
Feature directorial debut, "Triple Echo"
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