Peter Yates
Director

Peter Yates Net Worth

Peter Yates was born in Aldershot, England and was educated at Charterhouse School and trained at RADA. He began his career as an actor with local repertory companies and then worked as a dubbing assistant, cutter, stage manager and theatre director. He gained his first experience as an assistant director on The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) and then directed many episodes of The Saint (1962) and Danger Man (1964). His first feature film was the musical Summer Holiday (1963), but it was his next film, Robbery (1967), that made him famous. The car chase in the film impressed Steve McQueen so much that he requested Yates to direct him in Bullitt (1968). Yates then moved to America and adapted himself to a variety of genres, with his best films being The Hot Rock (1972), The Deep (1977), and Breaking Away (1979). He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Director and Best Producer for Breaking Away. He made a few more films, including Suspect (1987), The House on Carroll Street (1988), and Curtain Call (1998).
Peter Yates is a member of Director

Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Director, Producer, Assistant Director
Birth Day July 24, 1929
Birth Place  Aldershot, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Age 91 YEARS OLD
Died On 9 January 2011(2011-01-09) (aged 81)\nLondon, England, UK
Birth Sign Leo
Occupation Film director, producer
Years active 1958–2010
Television The Saint Danger Man
Spouse(s) Virginia Pope (m. 1960)
Children Son and daughter
Parent(s) Robert and Constance Yates

💰 Net worth: $2 Million (2024)

Peter Yates, a renowned figure in the United Kingdom, is not only a highly respected director and producer but also an accomplished assistant director. As of 2024, his net worth is estimated to be an impressive $2 million. Throughout his career, Yates has made a significant impact on the industry and has been involved in numerous successful projects. His exceptional talents, innovative vision, and relentless work ethic have catapulted him to the upper echelons of the entertainment world. With his vast experience and undeniable talent, Peter Yates' influence in the film industry is expected to continue growing, cementing his status as an icon in the years to come.

Biography/Timeline

1950

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).

1963

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.

1968

Yates was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Bullitt (1968). Yates produced and directed Breaking Away (1979), which was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Film for Yates. Yates also produced and directed The Dresser (1983), an adaptation of the Ronald Harwood stage play. The film received seven BAFTA and five Oscar nominations, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film and for Best Direction and the Academy Award for Best Film and for Best Director for Yates. The Dresser was also entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival. Other notable films directed by Yates include Krull, The House on Carroll Street, The Deep, Suspect and For Pete's Sake.

1970

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.

2011

Yates died in London on 9 January 2011. He was 81 years old.

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