Yates began staging plays in the British provinces at the age of 19 and worked as an assistant to J. Lee Thompson and Tony Richardson in the early 1960s. He then alternated between film and TV work and made his feature debut with "Summer Holiday" (1963).
Yates' early work exhibited a talent for fast-paced action, reflected in such films as "Bullitt" (1968), which included one of the most… See Full Peter Yates Biography