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"He was like a guy": Seven Up! Star Tony Walker remembers visionary director Michael Apted

In his living room in Loughton, Essex, Tony Walker still has a Broadcasting Press Guild statuette that rightly belongs to Michael Apted. "I went on an offbeat date in the City of London just before graduation to accept an award for excellence on his behalf," he explains, "and he waited here. You're coming to London from Hollywood to pick it up. "Apted, who died aged 79, met Walker in 1964 when she cast him at the age of seven to star in her new series Seven Up! The Cheeky East End Student Wanted to Be a Jockey quickly won hearts the viewer and it was the beginning of a long and cherished friendship between the two men. Seven Up !, a World in Action special on ITV with 14 "normal" young men from different extremes. It has had such an impact across the social spectrum, that it has become a critically acclaimed and still popular documentary series. Every seven years Apted (who had selected many attendees as the investigator for the first program) has been running each one since then.) provided ongoing information about what had happened in their lives first aired in June 2019 when the show was being described as "the most important thing I have ever done." For cultural historians, it was revolutionary "reality" television hen in a time before celebrities. Social scientists study it in university programs. But for the 65-year-old Walker and black cab driver in London, it was a family affair. His creator, he says, was more of an uncle to him. "Even as a child he had no inhibitions around him. I never thought I was in a movie. He was my friend. He was a friend of my family and when I got married and had kids and now grandchildren, he knew them all. He was one of us.

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