Go to main content
Peter Yates
PY

Peter Yates

English film director and producer (1929-2011)
July 24, 1929 (January 9, 2011)
U.S. 2004. Drama by Peter Yates with J Barton, Toby Moore, Jacob Pitts. The friendship between two college students is put to the test after one of them is involved in an accident caused by the other.
U.S. 2000. Adventures by Peter Yates with John Lithgow, Bob Hoskins, Isabella Rossellini. An eccentric gentleman and his faithful companion travel the roads of Spain in search of wrongs to right.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1999. Fantasy comedy by Peter Yates with Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, James Spader. A publisher discovers that his house is haunted by the ghosts of two eccentric old actors.
G.-B. 1995. Sentimental drama by Peter Yates with Matt Keeslar, Albert Finney, Victoria Smurfit.
Runtime: 109 min.
U.S. 1995. Dramatic comedy by Peter Yates with Peter Falk, D.B. Sweeney, Julianne Moore.
Runtime: 109 min.
U.S. 1992. Comedy by Peter Yates with Penelope Ann Miller, Tim Daly, Louis Jourdan. In possession of a valuable bottle of wine, an English merchant's daughter and a troubled American try to escape from pushy scientists.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1989. Crime drama by Peter Yates with Tom Selleck, Laila Robins, David Rasche. A man who was unjustly imprisoned by dishonest police officers devises a plan for revenge upon his release from prison.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 1988. Crime drama by Peter Yates with Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin. In 1951, a young unemployed journalist, now a reader in an old lady's house, discovers a network of help for former Nazis in the house next door.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 1987. Court drama by Peter Yates with Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson. A lawyer charged with defending a drifter accused of murder is assisted by a jury member in her investigation.
Runtime: 139 min.
G.-B. 1985. Drama by Peter Yates with Kate Nelligan, John Malkovich, Oliver Cotton. Back in Greece, forty years after the execution of his mother, a journalist confronts the judge who sentenced her without valid reasons.
Runtime: 117 min.
G.-B. 1983. Fantasy by Peter Yates with Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones. After having his young wife kidnapped by the invaders of his planet, a prince recruits bandits to go and rescue her.
Runtime: 121 min.
G.-B. 1983. Dramatic comedy by Peter Yates with Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins. An elderly theatre actor, at the brink of death, manages to hold on until the end of the performance thanks to the efforts of his dresser.
Runtime: 118 min.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1979. Mores comedy by Peter Yates with Dennis Christopher, Paul Dooley, Barbara Barrie.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 1977. Adventures by Peter Yates with Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Shaw. A couple tries to recover drugs and a Spanish treasure discovered during an underwater exploration.
Runtime: 122 min.
U.S. 1976. Dramatic comedy by Peter Yates with Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel. The misadventures of three employees of a private ambulance service.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1974. Comedy by Peter Yates with Barbra Streisand, Michael Sarrazin, Estelle Parsons. A cab driver’s wife is dragged into extravagant adventures while trying to help him pursue his studies.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1973. Crime drama by Peter Yates with Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan. A man who acts as a go-between for gangsters and illegal arms dealers is also a police informant.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1972. Police comedy by Peter Yates with Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman. On behalf of an African government, an ex-prisoner attempts to steal a diamond from a New York museum.
Runtime: 105 min.
G.-B. 1970. War drama by Peter Yates with Peter O'Toole, Philippe Noiret, Sian Phillips. After being rescued from a torpedoing, an English sailor undertakes an unequal fight against a German submarine.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1969. Sentimental drama by Peter Yates with Mia Farrow, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Tolan. Two young people learn to love each other after a one night stand.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1968. Crime drama by Peter Yates with Steve McQueen (I), Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset. A police lieutenant pursues the killers of a gangster whom he was supposed to protect.
Runtime: 113 min.
G.-B. 1967. Crime drama by Peter Yates with Stanley Baker, James Booth, Joanna Pettet. The preparations and execution of the Glasgow-London mail train robbery and the capture of the criminals.
Runtime: 110 min.
G.-B. 1967. Spy drama by Michael Truman, Peter Yates with Patrick McGoohan, Yoko Tani, Ronald Howard. A secret agent travels to Japan to fight a mysterious gang of assassins.
Runtime: 104 min.
G.-B. 1963. Musical by Peter Yates with Cliff Richard, Lauri Peters, Melvyn Hayes. Four young English take a trip across Europe on a double-decker bus.
Runtime: 109 min.

© 2021. All rights reserved.