R.I.P. Peter Yates

Peter Yates, British producer and director, has passed away at the age of 82. Yates produced and directed one of my childhood favorites, Breaking Away, as well as one of my least favorites, Krull. Two of Yates films on my Movie Bucket List - Bullitt and The Friends of Eddie Coyle.

I often confused the films of Yates and Peter Hyams, the American director of such action films as 2010 and The Presidio, as well as one of my personal favorites, Running Scarred. I guess it must be the fact that they share the first name Peter and both have a y in the first two letters of their last name. (Yes, I know how lame that sounds.)