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David Yates (born 8 October 1963) is an English filmmaker, who has directed feature films, short films, and television productions. He is best known for directing the final four films in the Harry Potter series and the three films of its prequel series, Fantastic Beasts .
Don Quixote is a 2000 television film made by Hallmark Entertainment and distributed by TNT.It was directed by Peter Yates, and the teleplay, by John Mortimer, was adapted from Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote.
It was, however, well-reviewed by critics, and today is among the most highly regarded crime films of the 1970s by some. In Time magazine, Richard Schickel wrote: "Now, at last, Mitchum achieves a kind of apotheosis in Peter Yates' strong, realistic and totally absorbing rendition of George V. Higgins' bestselling novel... Self-consciously, and ...
In the early 1990s, after 18 years in New York, Yates moved to Los Angeles. [23] He made Year of the Comet (1992), which was a flop despite being based on a William Goldman script, and Roommates (1995). [24] He was an executive producer on Needful Things (1992). Yates went to Ireland to make The Run of the Country (1995) which he also produced.
Roommates is a 1995 American comedy-drama film, starring Peter Falk, D. B. Sweeney, and Julianne Moore, directed by Peter Yates. The original music score was composed by Elmer Bernstein . The film was marketed with the tagline, "Some people talk.
The site's critical consensus reads, "It's not easy to take the longest Harry Potter book and streamline it into the shortest HP movie, but director David Yates does a bang up job of it, creating an Order of the Phoenix that's entertaining and action-packed."
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Herbert John Yates (August 24, 1880 – February 3, 1966), a Hollywood mini-mogul, was the founder and President of Republic Pictures. With his contract, he had launched the film careers of such Western stars as Roy Rogers , Gene Autry , and John Wayne .