Peter Yates
Director
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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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Behind the Camera
The Saint
Director
Mente indomable
Thanks
Danger Man
Director
Krull
Director
Bullitt
Director
Los Cañones de Navarone
Assistant Director
La tienda
Productor Ejecutivo
Sospechoso
Director
Abismo
Director
Los muchachos del verano
Director, Productor
Roommates
Director
Curtain Call
Director
Robbery
Director, Guionista
Consigna: Matar al testigo
Director, Productor
Los 4 pícaros ladrones
Director
Murphy's War
Director
Un hombre inocente
Director
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Director
Year of the Comet
Director, Productor
La casa en la calle Carroll
Director, Productor
Don Quixote
Director
Mother, Jugs & Speed
Productor, Director
The Dresser
Director, Productor
A Taste of Honey
Assistant Director
John and Mary
Director
Eleni
Director
The Entertainer
Assistant Director
Por amor de Dios
Director
Summer Holiday
Director
Stasera Fernandel
Creator