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Caption: Herbert J. Yates
About Herbert John Yates
Miscellaneous Crew, Producer
Born: August 24, 1880
Star sign: Virgo
Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m)
Known for: The Quiet Man (1952), Rio Grande (1950), Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), Johnny Guitar (1954)
Source: IMDB
Herbert J. Yates, the cigar-chomping force behind Republic Pictures, spent his early adulthood as a salesman for the American Tobacco Co. (and later, at age 23, for Liggett & Meyers as an account executive). At the beginning of World War I, Yates saw an opportunity to apply his hard-nosed business skills in the burgeoning film processing business, ...
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