Birthday: July 24, 1929

British director Peter Yates graduated from his early-'60s low-budget feature debut, the musical comedy Summer Holiday (1963), starring Cliff Richard and the Shadows, to the superb thriller Robbery (1967) with Stanley Baker. It was a short jump to the American thriller Bullitt (1968), starring Steve McQueen, the definitive cop thriller of its decade with the ...more
  • 1983
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
  • Best Director
  • The Dresser
  • nom
  • 1983
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
  • Best Picture
  • The Dresser
  • nom
  • 1979
  • Directors Guild of America
  • Best Director
  • Breaking Away
  • nom


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