David Yates, photographed by Dick Thomas Johnson on November 21, 2016. The file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (accessed: May 25, 2018).
David Yates
, b. 1963
David Yates (1963) is best known for directing the last four movies of the Harry Potter series: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) and Part 2 (2011). In one of the interviews promoting the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them he admitted that his excitement concerning the new production was connected to doing everything from scratch, creating a whole new world, which he could not do with the Harry Potter series (he joined the crew half-way through) (Interview: ScreenSlam). Yates is contracted to direct the next two movies, but it is very likely that he would go on directing the whole five-part series of the Fantastic Beasts…
Bio prepared by Anna Mik, University of Warsaw, anna.m.mik@gmail.com
Records in database:
.jpg){kind=link}