Film editor, son of director Peter Yates was 61 – The Hollywood Reporter
Toby Yates
Courtesy of the Yates family
Toby Yates, a Hollywood film editor for 40 years and son of Oscar-nominated director and producer Peter Yates, has died. He was 61 years old.
His family announced that Yates died on November 17 in Los Angeles after suffering a stroke.
Yates was a frequent collaborator with director Karen Moncrieff, editing her first film, Blue car (2002), followed by Dead girl (2006) and The Trials of Kate McCall (2013).
He also cut off The moon and the stars (2007) directed by John Irvine – he won the Best Editor Award at the Milan International Film Festival for it – and Midnight meat train (2008) and Nobody lives (2012) directed by Ryohei Kitamura.
Most recently, he edited Dark Brave (2023) Directed by Damien Harris.
Toby Robert Quentin Yates was born on September 18, 1962 in London and grew up there and in New York City. He studied filmmaking and editing while in high school, working as a junior editor and later assistant editor under Roy Lovejoy (2001: A space journey, Aliens).
After graduating from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, Yates attended Columbia University School of the Arts for film studies and won his first MTV Student Award for directing. He then directed theater in London and Los Angeles.
In 1998, he edited his first independent film, Cleopatra’s second husbandAnd Brown MassAdapted from James Ellroy’s first novel. In 2000, he cut the TNT television movie starring John Lithgow Don Quixoteone of his father’s last directorial efforts.
He also worked in television series such as: Brothers sisters And shameless He has taught editing at the American Film Institute and Maine Media.
Survivors include his wife, designer Min Young Lee, whom he married in 2014; their 9-year-old son, Peter; His mother, Virginia Pope Yates, is a film publicist; Sister Miranda; Nephew Theodore. and niece Beatrice.
Peter Yates, who received a double Academy Award nomination for Best Picture for his work in both Separation (1979) and tailor (1983), and was also known for his leadership Paulette (1968), Eddie Coyle’s Friends (1973), the deep (1977) and suspected (1987), among many other films. He died in 2011 of heart failure at the age of 81.
