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person_profile-Peter Yates

Peter Yates Died at age: 81

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Peter Yates

Date of Birth:

Jul 24, 1929

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Jan 09, 2011

Biography of

Peter Yates

    Peter James Yates (24 July 1929 – 9 January 2011) was an English film director and producer. He was born in Aldershot, Hampshire.

    The son of an army officer, he attended Charterhouse School as a boy, graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked for some years as an actor, director and stage manager. In the 1950s he started in the movie industry as a dubbing assistant and later an assistant director for Tony Richardson.

    Summer Holiday (1963), his first film as director, was a "lightweight" vehicle for Cliff Richard. Yates had directed the original Royal Court production of N. F. Simpson's play One Way Pendulum and was chosen to make the film version released in 1964. Robbery (1967), a crime thriller, is a fictionalised version of the Great Train Robbery of 1963. This led to Bullitt (1968), of which Bruce Weber has written, "Mr. Yates’s reputation probably rests most securely on “Bullitt” (1968), his first American film — and indeed, on one particular scene, an extended car chase that instantly became a classic."

    Yates was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Bullitt (1968). Yates produced and directed Breaking Away (1979), which was nominated for five Academy Awards ("Oscars") including Best Director and Best Film for Yates. Yates also produced and directed The Dresser (1983), which was an adaptation of the Ronald Harwood stage play. The film received seven BAFTA and five Oscar nominations, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film and for Best Direction and the Academy Award for Best Film and for Best Director for Yates. The Dresser was also entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.

    Yates died in London on 9 January 2011. He was 81 years old.

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Filmography of

Peter Yates

Found 31 Movies in total

... 2004

Don Quixote

Director

... 2000

... 1998

... 1995

Roommates

Director

... 1995

... 1992

... 1989

... 1988

Suspect

Director

... 1987

Eleni

Director

... 1985

The Dresser

Director

... 1983

Krull

Director

... 1983

Eyewitness

Director

... 1981

... 1979

The Deep

Director

... 1977

... 1976

... 1974

... 1973

... 1972

... 1971

... 1969

Koroshi

Director

... 1968

Bullitt

Director

... 1968

Robbery

Screenplay

... 1967

... 1965

... 1963

A Taste of Honey

Assistant Director

... 1961

The Guns of Navarone

Assistant Director

... 1961

The Entertainer

Assistant Director

... 1960

Cover Girl Killer

Assistant Director

... 1959