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David Yates
St. Helens, Merseyside, England, UK
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 fi…
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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. 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. 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 and has had a close partnership with Warner Bros. as a director and producer. Around 2022, he began working through his own production company, Wychwood Media. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Yates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Julián
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Roommate Regret
Movie Co-Executive Producer
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2023
Pain Hustlers
Movie Director
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2022
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Movie Director
- 2022
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2021
(K)nox: The Rob Knox Story
Movie Self
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2018
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Movie Director
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2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Movie Director
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2016
The Legend of Tarzan
Movie Director
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2014
Tyrant
TV show Executive Producer
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2012
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter
Movie Self - Director
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2011
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Movie Self
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2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Movie Director
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2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Movie Director
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2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Movie Director
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2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Movie Director
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2005
The Girl in the Café
Movie Director
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2004
Sex Traffic
TV show Director
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2003
The Young Visiters
Movie Director
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2003
State of Play
TV show Director
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2002
Rank
Movie Director
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2001
The Way We Live Now
TV show Director
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2000
The Sins
TV show Director
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1999
The Tichborne Claimant
Movie Director
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1991
Oranges and Lemons
Movie Director
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1991
The Weaver's Wife
Movie Writer
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1988
When I Was a Girl
Movie Writer
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1984
The Bill
TV show Director
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Ghost Story
Movie Thanks
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Banquet
Movie Executive Producer
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Phantom Son
Movie Director
