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David Yates was born on 8 October, 1963 in St Helens, Lancashire, England, is an English filmmaker. Discover David Yates's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Occupation Film director · producer · screenwriter
Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 8 October 1963
Birthday 8 October
Birthplace St Helens, Lancashire, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1956

One year later, Yates attended the 56th BAFTA Awards with a British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Short Film for the fourteen-minute production, Rank, which expressed the social elements of racism, friendship and adolescence through the story of a street gang that cross Glasgow to witness the arrival of a group of Somali refugees.

Yates said that even though The Way We Live Now was "a very big production" and "enormous fun to do", Rank was an opportunity to "shake all that off" and "get back to [his] roots".

Of the casting, Yates said that he "wanted to use non-actors to tell the story, to create a reality ... the kids we cast in Glasgow had never done a film before."

The film was noted for its gritty style and cinematography, with a review from Eye For Film stating that "such intelligent use of camera and cast lifts Yates out of the pool of promising young directors into the front line of genuine hopefuls. This work demands respect."

1963

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.

His work on the Harry Potter series brought him critical and commercial success along with accolades, such as the British Academy Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing.

Yates directed various short films and became a television director early in his career.

David was born on 8 October 1963 in St Helens, Lancashire, England.

His parents died when he was young.

1975

Raised in the village of Rainhill, Yates was inspired to pursue a career in filmmaking after watching Steven Spielberg's 1975 movie Jaws.

Yates's mother bought him a Super 8mm camera.

He used this to shoot various films in which his friends and family featured.

One such film, The Ghost Ship, was shot on board the vessel where his uncle worked as a cook.

He attended Grange Park High School, St Helens College and then the University of Essex.

Yates said that he "used to skive off college all the time" and never expected to join university before being surprised by his A-Level exam results.

While at the University of Essex, Yates formed the Film and Video Production Society.

1987

He graduated with a BA in Government in 1987.

1988

In 1988, Yates made his first film When I Was a Girl in Swindon.

The film entered the festival circuit where it was named Best Short Film at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

1989

It contributed towards Yates's acceptance into the National Film and Television School in 1989 and led to the BBC hiring him to direct Oranges and Lemons, a short drama film in 1991.

Before completing film school, he began to direct, produce and write the screenplay to the dramatic short The Weaver's Wife.

He also made his fourth short film, Good Looks, which was presented at the Chicago International Film Festival.

1992

After graduating in 1992, Yates directed an episode of the film studies programme Moving Pictures.

1994

From 1994 to 1995, Yates directed several episodes of the ITV police procedural The Bill before directing and producing three episodes of the television documentary Tale of Three Seaside Towns alongside producer Alistair Clarke.

The programme followed media personalities Russell Grant, Honor Blackman and Pam Ayres visiting and exploring the South Coast towns of Brighton, Eastbourne and Weymouth.

1998

Yates directed his fifth short film Punch before making his feature film debut in 1998 with the release of the independent historical-drama film The Tichborne Claimant.

The film, which was shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, was written by Joe Fisher and based on the true events of the Tichborne Case.

It starred Stephen Fry and Robert Hardy and was shot on location in Merseyside and on the Isle of Man.

2000

Yates returned to television in 2000 to direct the episodes of Greed, Envy and Lust for the BBC miniseries The Sins, starring Pete Postlethwaite, as well as The Way We Live Now, the four-part television adaptation of the novel of the same name by Anthony Trollope.

State of Play is regarded by critics from The Guardian and The Times as one of the best British television dramas of the 2000s.

Yates directed the television adaptation of nine-year-old Daisy Ashford's novel The Young Visiters, starring Jim Broadbent alongside Hugh Laurie.

2002

Yates shared the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Serial with screenwriter Andrew Davies and producer Nigel Stafford-Clark at the 2002 BAFTA Awards.

2003

His credits include the six-part political thriller State of Play (2003), for which he won the Directors Guild of Great Britain Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, the adult two-part documentary drama Sex Traffic (2004) and the Emmy Award-winning television film The Girl in the Café (2005).

Yates is a founding member of Directors UK.

He has had a close partnership with Warner Bros. as a director and producer.

The 2003 six-part thriller State of Play was Yates's next achievement.

Yates collected the TV Spielfilm Award at the Cologne Conference in Germany and won the Directors Guild of Great Britain Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement.

The serial was recognised by various award ceremonies, receiving the Peabody Award for Broadcasting Excellence and being presented with two British Academy Television Craft Awards.

The quality of the serial sparked Hollywood film bosses to consider adapting it into a film, with producer Andrew Hauptman declaring that "it's a blistering political thriller and we want to make an equally blistering movie."