Peter Yates
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1929-07-24 (82 years old)
Deathday
2011-01-09
Place of Birth
Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
Also known As
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Peter Yates
Biography
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 t...
Acting
2005
2010
as Self – Interviewee
Production
1983
as Director
1968
as Director
1979
as Director
1977
as Director
1981
as Director
1981
as Producer
1974
as Director
1973
as Director
1987
as Director
1971
as Director
1989
as Director
1983
as Director
1972
as Director
1963
as Director
1992
as Director
1969
as Director
1998
as Director
1967
as Director
1967
as Screenplay
2004
as Director
1988
as Director
1995
as Director
1985
as Director
2000
as Director
1995
as Director
1965
as Director
1979
as Producer
1988
as Producer
1961
as Assistant Director
1960
as Assistant Director
1997
as Thanks
1968
as Director
1976
as Producer
1976
as Director
1961
as Assistant Director
1993
as Executive Producer
1983
as Producer
1959
as Assistant Director
1992
as Producer
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