Toby Yates, a movie editor in Hollywood for 40 years and the son of Oscar-nominated director-producer Peter Yates, has died. He was 61.
Yates died Nov. 17 in Los Angeles after a stroke, his household introduced.
Yates was a frequent collaborator with director Karen Moncrieff, modifying her first function, Blue Automobile (2002), adopted by The Useless Woman (2006) and The Trials of Cate McCall (2013).
He additionally lower The Moon and the Stars (2007) for director John Irvin — he acquired a finest editor prize on the Milano Worldwide Movie Pageant for that — and The Midnight Meat Practice (2008) and No One Lives (2012) for director Ryûhei Kitamura.
Most not too long ago, he edited Courageous the Darkish (2023), directed by Damian Harris.
Toby Robert Quentin Yates was born on Sept. 18, 1962, in London and raised there and in New York Metropolis. He studied filmmaking and modifying whereas in highschool, working as an apprentice editor and later assistant editor underneath Roy Lovejoy (2001: A Area Odyssey, Aliens).
After graduating from Skidmore School in Saratoga Springs, New York, Yates attended Columbia College College of Arts for movie research and received the primary MTV Scholar Award for guiding. He then directed for the theater in London and Los Angeles.
In 1998, he edited his first unbiased function, Cleopatra’s Second Husband, and Brown’s Requiem, tailored from James Ellroy’s debut novel. In 2000, he lower the John Lithgow-starring TNT telefilm Don Quixote, one among his dad’s final directorial efforts.
He additionally labored on such TV collection as Brothers & Sisters and Shameless and taught modifying on the American Movie Institute and Maine Media.
Survivors embody his spouse, designer Min Younger Lee, whom he married in 2014; their 9-year-old son, Peter; his mom, Virginia Pope Yates, a movie publicist; sister Miranda; nephew Theodore; and niece Beatrice.
Peter Yates, who earned twin directing and finest image Oscar nominations for his work on each Breaking Away (1979) and The Dresser (1983), additionally was recognized for helming Bullitt (1968), The Mates of Eddie Coyle (1973), The Deep (1977) and Suspect (1987), amongst many different movies. He died in 2011 of coronary heart failure at age 81.
