About
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...
Known for
The SaintSeries • 1962
Good Will HuntingMovie • 1997
Danger ManSeries • 1960
BullittMovie • 1968
The Guns of NavaroneMovie • 1961
The House on Carroll StreetMovie • 1988
Needful ThingsMovie • 1993
KrullMovie • 1983
SuspectMovie • 1987
Breaking AwayMovie • 1979
An Innocent ManMovie • 1989
The DeepMovie • 1977
The Hot RockMovie • 1972
The Friends of Eddie CoyleMovie • 1973
EyewitnessMovie • 1981
A Taste of HoneyMovie • 1961
RoommatesMovie • 1995
The DresserMovie • 1983
Don QuixoteMovie • 2000
Murphy's WarMovie • 1971
John and MaryMovie • 1969
Year of the CometMovie • 1992
Curtain CallMovie • 1998
RobberyMovie • 1967