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Peter Yates

Peter Yates

ActorDirectorCrewProducerWriter Jul 24 (died age 81) Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK 1959–2010 (51 year career)
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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 "li…

Known For

Good Will Hunting
Film

Good Will Hunting

Thanks
Bullitt
Film

Bullitt

Director
The Guns of Navarone
Film

The Guns of Navarone

Assistant Director
Breaking Away
Film

Breaking Away

Director
Needful Things
Film

Needful Things

Executive Producer
Krull
Film

Krull

Director
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Film

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Director
Suspect
Film

Suspect

Director

Filmography