Peter Yates
| Peter Yates | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Peter James Yates 24 July 1929 Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK |
| Died | 9 January 2011 (aged 81) London, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Film director, producer |
| Years active | 1958–2010 |
| Television |
The Saint Danger Man |
| Spouse(s) | Virginia Pope (m. 1960–2011) |
| Children | Son and daughter |
| Parent(s) | Robert and Constance 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 film industry as a dubbing assistant and later an assistant director for Tony Richardson and J. Lee Thompson (his 1961 The Guns of Navarone).
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."Frank P. Keller won the Academy Award for film editing on Bullitt. After Bullitt, Yates would do action films, but would intermix them with comedy and drama films.
In 1970 Yates said he would make Don Quixote with Richard Burton but the project stalled. He did finally make a television film of the Cervantes novel in 2000, with John Lithgow as Don Quixote.
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