David Yates
Birthdate: October 8, 1963 (62 Years Old)
Birthplace: St. Helens, Merseyside, England, UK
Director David Yates has carved out an unusual feature directorial career as a specialist in big-screen adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s massively successful Harry Potter universe and the Harry-adjacent Fantastic Beasts franchise. After a steady TV career that stretched from 1994 to 2005, Yates directed the well-received Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), followed in steady succession by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and the two-part Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2010 and 2011).
After a detour into the world of Edgar Rice Burroughs with The Legend of Tarzan (2016), with Alexander Skarsgård, Yates has directed the first three in the Fantastic Beasts series, including The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022).
David Yates is set to direct the fourth and fifth feature installments. He has worked regularly on Warner Bros. productions since 2007, one of the longest current track records in the industry for a director collaborating with a single studio.
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Personal life
Known For
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
(2011)
The Legend of Tarzan
(2016)
Awards
Winner, Best Feature Film, BAFTA Children’s Award (2011); Nominee, Outstanding British Film of the Year, BAFTA (2017).
David Yates Movies
Director
Previous (8)
- 2022 |
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore knows that Gellert Grindelwald is moving to take control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he asks Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team on a dangerous mission.
- 2018 |
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Gellert Grindelwald plans to raise an army of wizards to rule over non-magical beings. In response, Newt Scamander's former professor, Albus Dumbledore, seeks his help to stop him.
- 2016 |
The Legend of Tarzan
Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
- 2016 |
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
In 1926, magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York during his worldwide tour to research and rescue magical creatures as something mysterious leaves trails of destruction in the city, threatening to expose the wizarding world.
- 2011 |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
As the battle between the forces of good and evil in the wizarding world escalates, Harry Potter draws ever closer to his final confrontation with Voldemort.
- 2010 |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry Potter is tasked with the dangerous and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Harry must rely on Ron and Hermione more than ever, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart.
- 2009 |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
As Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
- 2007 |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
With their warning about Lord Voldemort's return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.
