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Director, Producer Born: July 24, 1929 in Ewshott, Surrey, England Biography: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 first car chase that anyone remembers in movies, through the streets of San Francisco. "John and Mary" (1969), starring "Dustin Hoffman" and "Mia Farrow", was a big date movie at the end of the 1960s, and "The Hot Rock" (1972) was a groundbreaking comedy/thriller of its era, while "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" (1973) was a crime drama with one of "Robert Mitchum"'s best performances. Since then, Yates has moved easily between genres, from the black comedy of "Mother, Jugs, and Speed" (1976) to the comic book-style action of "Krull"... Full Biography
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