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Steve McQueen, Bullitt (top); Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, The Dresser (bottom) Peter Yates, Oscar nominated for directing and producing Best Film nominees Breaking Away (1979) and The Dresser (1983), has died after "a long illness." The news was first reported by Deadline.com. Yates, who is probably best known for the 1968 car-chasing thriller Bullitt, was 81 or 82, depending on the source. Following an apprenticeship [...]

Author Peter Benchley, whose 1970s novel Jaws became a literary sensation, has died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. Benchley, who was 65, had been suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive and ultimately fatal scarring of the lungs. In 1975, Jaws – the tale of a white shark with an insatiable appetite — went on to become one of the biggest box-office blockbusters [...]