Acting
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Jan 1, 1956 (68)
Golspie, Scotland
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Jimmy Yuill
Jimmy Yuill is an actor, born in 1959, in Golspie, Scotland. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and later joined the Renaissance Theatre Company. He has appeared in many of Kenneth Branagh's films. His most recent work saw him play the Chief Constable in "The Raven" along side John Cusack. Yuill was also the music composer for A Midwinter's Tale and Swan Song. Most of his acting work has been in theatre, although he has played police officers on television; he is best remembered for the character Doug Kersey in the British television show Wycliffe. In June 2006 Jimmy made his first appearance in EastEnders as the recurring character Victor Brown. In October 2007, Yuill took the lead in Sophocles' Antigone as Creon, King of Thebes at The Tron Theatre, Glasgow. In 2010, he was nominated for the award of Best Male Performance for his role in a play adaption of the Testament of Cresseid by the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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2022 | The Road Dance | Doctor Connolly |
2021 | The Kindred | Robert |
2020 | Artemis Fowl | Fisherman (Time Freeze) |
2018 | All Is True | Edward Woolmer |
2013 | National Theatre Live: Macbeth | Banquo, Thane of Lochaber, general in the King's army |
2012 | The Raven | Captain Eldridge |
2012 | Flat Lake | Murdo Strachen |
2011 | Retreat | Doug |
2011 | Young James Herriot | |
2010 | Princess Kaiulani | Archie Cleghorn |
2009 | Within the Whirlwind | Siderov |
2007 | Extraordinary Rendition | University Dean |
2006 | As You Like It | Corin |
2006 | The Magic Flute | Queen's Commander |
2004 | Ladies in Lavender | Constable Timmins |
2004 | New Tricks | George Milligan |
2004 | The Rocket Post | James MacLeod |
2001 | Strictly Sinatra | Rod Edmunds |
2001 | Schneider's 2nd Stage | Detective Chief Inspector |
2000 | Love's Labour's Lost | Constable Dull |
2000 | Rebus | Mickey |
2000 | Monsignor Renard | |
1995 | Hamish Macbeth | Lachlan McCrae |
1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Greigori |
1994 | Wycliffe | DI Doug Kersey |
1994 | Grushko | Chazov |
1993 | Much Ado About Nothing | Friar Francis |
1990 | Paper Mask | Alec Moran |
1990 | Discovering Hamlet | Himself / Guildenstern |
1989 | Henry V | Jamy |
1989 | The Picnic | Man at Dyke |
1988 | Eurocops | McCulloch |
1987 | The Interrogation of John | Det. Sgt. Chandler |
1985 | EastEnders | Victor Brown |
1983 | Local Hero | Iain |
1982 | Objects of Affection | Charles |
1981 | Andrina | Stanley |
1981 | The Good Time Girls | Finlayson |
1980 | Death Watch | |
1979 | A Sense of Freedom | Dunkie |
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1995 | In the Bleak Midwinter | Original Music Composer |
1992 | Swan Song | Original Music Composer |