---
name: "Brock Yates"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brock-yates"
fi1m_id: "brock-yates"
imdb_id: "nm0946717"
tmdb_id: 68857
wikidata_id: "Q4972765"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "21 October 1933"
died: "5 October 2016"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 50
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T18:40:17.632900+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Brock Yates

## Identity

Brock Yates

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brock-yates
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brock-yates
- **IMDb ID:** nm0946717
- **TMDB ID:** 68857
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4972765
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_Yates, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4972765, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0946717/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68857

Writer. Born 21 October 1933 in Lockport, New York, USA. Died 5 October 2016.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 21 October 1933, Lockport, New York, USA
- **Died:** 5 October 2016
- **Active:** 1980–2023
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 acting, 3 writing
- **Frequently works with:** [Burt Reynolds](https://film.one/person/burt-reynolds.md), [Dom DeLuise](https://film.one/person/dom-deluise.md), [Hal Needham](https://film.one/person/hal-needham.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 50, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 43 (3), 2020s 70 (1)
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 2, Comedy 2, Drama 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $162m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_Yates, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4972765, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0946717/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68857

## Biography

Brock Yates (1933–2016) was an American journalist, author and screenwriter. He served for four decades as executive editor and contributor at Car and Driver magazine, and wrote for publications including The Washington Post, Playboy and The American Spectator.

Yates co-created the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash road race in 1971. He wrote the screenplays for Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) and The Cannonball Run (1981), and the book Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine, on which the 2023 film Ferrari was based. He was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2017.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, caranddriver.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Cannonball Run* (1981), Fi1m 50, as Organizer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-cannonball-run.md)

### Wrote (3) — the average rests on these

- *Ferrari* (2023), Fi1m 70, Book — [page](https://film.one/film/ferrari.md)
- *Cannonball Run II* (1984), Fi1m 35, Characters — [page](https://film.one/film/cannonball-run-ii.md)
- *Smokey and the Bandit II* (1980), Fi1m 44, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/smokey-and-the-bandit-ii.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ferrari* (2023), Book — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/ferrari.md)
- *Bandit: Bandit, Bandit* (1994), Writer
- *Cannonball Run II* (1984), Characters — Fi1m 35, [page](https://film.one/film/cannonball-run-ii.md)
- *The Cannonball Run* (1981), as Organizer · Screenplay — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/the-cannonball-run.md)
- *Smokey and the Bandit II* (1980), Screenplay — Fi1m 44, [page](https://film.one/film/smokey-and-the-bandit-ii.md)

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