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Peter Yates dies at 81; director of 'Bullitt'
'Bullitt' was Yates' American directing debut. It starred Steve McQueen as a detective and featured a memorable car chase on the streets of San Francisco with McQueen at the wheel of a Mustang.
January 11, 2011|By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times
Peter Yates, the British director of "Breaking Away," "The Dresser" and "Bullitt," the 1968 Steve McQueen movie whose landmark car chase sequence over the hilly streets of San Francisco was a career-defining moment for both director and star, has died. He was 81.
Yates died Sunday in London after an illness, his agent, Judy Daish, said in a statement reported by the Associated Press.
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In a career that began with the 1963 Cliff Richard pop musical "Summer Holiday," Yates directed more than two dozen movies, including "Murphy's War," "The Hot Rock," "The Friends of Eddie Coyle," "For Pete's Sake," "The Deep," "Mother Jugs & Speed" and "Eyewitness."
As a director, Yates received two Academy Award nominations — for "Breaking Away," a light-hearted coming-of-age tale set in Indiana; and for "The Dresser," a 1983 backstage story set in wartime England with Albert Finney as an actor-manager trying to keep his company afloat and Tom Courtney as his dedicated dresser.
Yates also was the producer of "Breaking Away" and a producer of "The Dresser," both of which received Oscar nominations for best picture.
He had directed only three films before making his American film debut with "Bullitt," whose cast included Robert Vaughn and Jacqueline Bisset.
A car chase in "Robbery," Yates' realistic 1967 thriller based on the Great Train Robbery of the Royal Mail in 1963, had come to the attention of McQueen, whose company produced "Bullitt."
During the making of "Bullitt," McQueen was more than willing to get behind the wheel of his police detective character's dark green Mustang fastback for the chase sequence with the bad guys in a Dodge Charger.
In a 1992 Associated Press interview, Yates remembered McQueen as "a lot of macho," which became abundantly clear while directing one part of the chase.
"I was in the back of the Mustang and Steve was going about 120 mph," Yates recalled. "We came to the last downhill section and when we got to the top of the hill Steve was still going pretty fast. I tapped him on the shoulder and said, 'We can slow down now, we're almost out of film.' Steve very calmly said, 'We can't. There aren't any brakes.'"
The Mustang, according to the AP account, continued to race down the hill past the film crew and onto a main road before McQueen slowed it down by driving up an embankment.
"If it was anyone else, we might not have made it," Yates said. "Steve was a great driver."
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/11/local/la-me-peter-yates-20110111
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Peter Yates dies at 81; director of 'Bullitt'
'Bullitt' was Yates' American directing debut. It starred Steve McQueen as a detective and featured a memorable car chase on the streets of San Francisco with McQueen at the wheel of a Mustang.
January 11, 2011|By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times
Peter Yates, the British director of "Breaking Away," "The Dresser" and "Bullitt," the 1968 Steve McQueen movie whose landmark car chase sequence over the hilly streets of San Francisco was a career-defining moment for both director and star, has died. He was 81.
Yates died Sunday in London after an illness, his agent, Judy Daish, said in a statement reported by the Associated Press.
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In a career that began with the 1963 Cliff Richard pop musical "Summer Holiday," Yates directed more than two dozen movies, including "Murphy's War," "The Hot Rock," "The Friends of Eddie Coyle," "For Pete's Sake," "The Deep," "Mother Jugs & Speed" and "Eyewitness."
As a director, Yates received two Academy Award nominations — for "Breaking Away," a light-hearted coming-of-age tale set in Indiana; and for "The Dresser," a 1983 backstage story set in wartime England with Albert Finney as an actor-manager trying to keep his company afloat and Tom Courtney as his dedicated dresser.
Yates also was the producer of "Breaking Away" and a producer of "The Dresser," both of which received Oscar nominations for best picture.
He had directed only three films before making his American film debut with "Bullitt," whose cast included Robert Vaughn and Jacqueline Bisset.
A car chase in "Robbery," Yates' realistic 1967 thriller based on the Great Train Robbery of the Royal Mail in 1963, had come to the attention of McQueen, whose company produced "Bullitt."
During the making of "Bullitt," McQueen was more than willing to get behind the wheel of his police detective character's dark green Mustang fastback for the chase sequence with the bad guys in a Dodge Charger.
In a 1992 Associated Press interview, Yates remembered McQueen as "a lot of macho," which became abundantly clear while directing one part of the chase.
"I was in the back of the Mustang and Steve was going about 120 mph," Yates recalled. "We came to the last downhill section and when we got to the top of the hill Steve was still going pretty fast. I tapped him on the shoulder and said, 'We can slow down now, we're almost out of film.' Steve very calmly said, 'We can't. There aren't any brakes.'"
The Mustang, according to the AP account, continued to race down the hill past the film crew and onto a main road before McQueen slowed it down by driving up an embankment.
"If it was anyone else, we might not have made it," Yates said. "Steve was a great driver."