Deadline has learned that English film director and producer and 4-time Oscar nominee Peter Yates -- who helmed such celebrated and dissimilar films as Bullitt, The Friends Of Eddie Coyle, Breaking Away, Suspect, and The Dresser -- has passed away in London after a long illness.
R.I.P. Peter Yates, director of 'Bullitt' and 'Breaking Away'
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Seeded on Mon Jan 10, 2011 5:18 AM
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