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

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...

Production

1983

Krull

as Director

1968

Bullitt

as Director

1979

Breaking Away

as Director

1977

The Deep

as Director

1981

Eyewitness

as Director

1981

Eyewitness

as Producer

1974

For Pete's Sake

as Director

1987

Suspect

as Director

1971

Murphy's War

as Director

1989

An Innocent Man

as Director

1983

The Dresser

as Director

1972

The Hot Rock

as Director

1963

Summer Holiday

as Director

1992

1969

John and Mary

as Director

1998

Curtain Call

as Director

1967

Robbery

as Director

1967

Robbery

as Screenplay

2004

A Separate Peace

as Director

1995

1985

Eleni

as Director

2000

Don Quixote

as Director

1995

Roommates

as Director

1965

One Way Pendulum

as Director

1979

Breaking Away

as Producer

1961

A Taste of Honey

as Assistant Director

1960

The Entertainer

as Assistant Director

1997

1968

Koroshi

as Director

1976

1976

1961

The Guns of Navarone

as Assistant Director

1993

Needful Things

as Executive Producer

1983

The Dresser

as Producer

1959

Cover Girl Killer

as Assistant Director

1992

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