Peter Yates

Peter Yates (born 24 July 1929 in Aldershot, Hampshire) is an English film director and producer.

He went to 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.

He made his first film Summer Holiday (1963) with Cliff Richard and later One Way Pendulum (1965), before directing the crime thriller Robbery, a fictionalised version of the Great Train Robbery, in 1967. This led to his first American film, Bullitt, the following year.

He earned four Oscar nominations - one for Best Director and a second for Best Producer for the film Breaking Away in 1979, and another two (Director and Producer) for The Dresser, an adaptation of the popular stage play, in 1983.

Films as director

• The Girl in Melanie Klein (2008) (announced)
• A Separate Peace (2004) (TV)
• Don Quixote (2000) (TV)
• Curtain Call (1999)
• The Run of the Country (1995)
• Roommates (1995)
• Year of the Comet (1992)
• An Innocent Man (1989)
• The House on Carroll Street (1988)
• Suspect (1987)
• Eleni (1985)
• The Dresser (1983)
• Krull (1983)
• Eyewitness (1981)
• Breaking Away (1979)
• The Deep (1977)
• Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976)
• For Pete's Sake (1974)
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
• The Hot Rock (1972)
• Murphy's War (1971)
• John and Mary (1969)
• Bullitt (1968)
• Robbery (1967)
• Koroshi (1966) (TV)
• Danger Man (1964) TV Series
• One Way Pendulum (1964)
• Summer Holiday (1963)
• The Saint (1962) TV Series (7 episodes)

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External links

• Peter Yates at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
• IMDb's profile