Toby Yates, a movie editor in Hollywood for 40 years and the child of Oscar-nominated director-producer Peter Yates, has actually passed away. He was 61.
Yates passed away Nov. 17 in Los Angeles after a stroke, his household revealed.
Yates was a regular partner with director Karen Moncrieff, modifying her very first function, Blue Car (2002 ), followed by The Dead Girl (2006) and The Trials of Cate McCall (2013 ).
He likewise cut The Moon and destiny (2007) for director John Irvin– he got a finest editor reward at the Milano International Film Festival for that– and The Midnight Meat Train (2008) and Nobody Lives (2012) for director Ryûhei Kitamura.
Most just recently, he modified Brave the Dark (2023 ), directed by Damian Harris.
Toby Robert Quentin Yates was born upon Sept. 18, 1962, in London and raised there and in New York City. He studied filmmaking and modifying while in high school, working as an apprentice editor and later on assistant editor under Roy Lovejoy (2001: A Space Odyssey Aliens.
After finishing from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, Yates went to Columbia University School of Arts for movie research studies and won the very first MTV Student Award for directing. He then directed for the theater in London and Los Angeles.
In 1998, he modified his very first independent function, Cleopatra’s Second Husbandand Brown’s Requiemadjusted from James Ellroy’s launching book. In 2000, he cut the John Lithgow-starring TNT telefilm Don Quixoteamong his daddy’s last directorial efforts.
He likewise dealt with such television series as Brothers & & Sisters and Outrageous and taught modifying at the American Film Institute and Maine Media.
Survivors include his other half, designer Min Young Lee, whom he wed in 2014; their 9-year-old boy, Peter; his mom, Virginia Pope Yates, a movie press agent; sis Miranda; nephew Theodore; and niece Beatrice.
Peter Yates, who made double directing and finest photo Oscar elections for his deal with both Breaking Away (1979) and The Dresser (1983 ), likewise was understood for helming Bullitt (1968 ), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973 ), The Deep (1977) and Presume (1987 ), amongst lots of other movies. He passed away in 2011 of cardiac arrest at age 81.
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