David Yates

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David Yates

David Yates at LA Harry Potter Premiere

Born

1963
St Helens, Merseyside

Awards won
BAFTA Awards
Best Drama Serial 2001 The Way We Live Now 2004 Sex Traffic
Emmy Awards
Best Direction in a Made for Television Movie 2006 The Girl in the Café

For the otolaryngologic, see David Gilbert Yates.

David Yates (born 1963) is an Emmy Award-nominated English film and television director. He has worked extensively in British television, mainly for the BBC, helming high-profile drama projects such as When I Was a Girl (1991), The Sins (2000), The Way We Live Now (2001), Paul Abbott's State of Play (2003), The Young Visiters (2003), Sex Traffic (2004) and Richard Curtis's The Girl in the Café (2005).

Yates was trained at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield.

He received his highest-profile assignment to date when he was chosen to direct the fifth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Yates was the one that chose composer Nicholas Hooper to do the score. Yates will also direct the sixth film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which began filming in September 2007,^[1] and the final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, expected 2010-11. This has been decided to be split into two parts, as David Yates apparently wishes the film to fulfil the book.^[2]

He will also be directing 'The Giver', based on the book by Lois Lowry, and is to be released in 2011.

In 2006 he won an Emmy Award for Best Direction in a Made for Television Movie for The Girl in the Café.

Yates was first inspired to become a director when he saw Steven Spielberg's Jaws, and his mother bought him his first camera at the age of 14. He then began making small movies with his brother, Andrew, in local parks. He studied Politics, English literature and Sociology at St Helens College in Merseyside, in which he produced grades of two A's and a C, although he was in hospital for six months at the time of studying. Following this, he attended University of Essex, followed by Beaconsfield film school, where he excelled as a student.

[edit] References

^ Spelling, Ian. "Yates Confirmed For Potter VI", Sci Fi Wire, 2007-05-03. Retrieved on 2007-05-03.
^ "Final Potter film 'split in half'", BBC News, 2008-03-13. Retrieved on 2008-03-13.

[edit] External links

David Yates at the Internet Movie Database.
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Films	The Tichborne Claimant • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Television	BBC Moving Pictures (1990) • The Bill (1984 -) • Tale of Three Seaside Towns (1995) • The Sins (2000) • The Way We Live Now (2001) • State of Play (2003) • The Young Visiters (2003) • Sex Traffic (2004) • The Girl in the Café (2005)

Short Films	When I Was a Girl (1988) • The Weaver's Wife (1991) • Oranges and Lemons (1991) • Good Looks (1992) • Punch (2006) • Rank (2002)