Jimmy Yuill
0.3Acting

Jimmy Yuill

Jan 1, 1956 - Golspie, Scotland

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.

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Cast

Media
Movie1994GrushkoChazov
Movie1983Local HeroIain
Movie2004The Rocket PostJames MacLeod
Movie1993Much Ado About NothingFriar Francis
Movie2004Ladies in LavenderConstable Timmins
Movie2006The Magic FluteQueen's Commander
Movie2010Princess KaiulaniArchie Cleghorn
Movie2012The RavenCaptain Eldridge
Movie2006As You Like ItCorin
Movie2011RetreatDoug
Movie2009Within the WhirlwindSiderov
Movie2012Flat LakeMurdo Strachen
Movie1989The PicnicMan at Dyke
Movie1981AndrinaStanley
Movie1990Paper MaskAlec Moran
Movie1989Henry VJamy
Movie1994Mary Shelley's FrankensteinGreigori
Movie1987The Interrogation of JohnDet. Sgt. Chandler
Movie2000Love's Labour's LostConstable Dull
Movie2013National Theatre Live: MacbethBanquo, Thane of Lochaber, general in the King's army
Movie2001Schneider's 2nd StageDetective Chief Inspector
Movie1990Discovering HamletHimself / Guildenstern
Movie2007Extraordinary RenditionUniversity Dean
Movie2001Strictly SinatraRod Edmunds
Movie1985A Sense of FreedomDunkie
Movie2018All Is TrueEdward Woolmer
Movie2020Artemis FowlFisherman (Time Freeze)
Movie1980Death Watch
Movie1981The Good Time GirlsFinlayson
Movie2021The KindredRobert
Movie2022The Road DanceDoctor Connolly
Movie1982Our WinnieCharles
TV Show1994WycliffeDI Doug Kersey36
TV Show1995Hamish MacbethLachlan McCrae6
TV Show2000Monsignor Renard4
TV Show2000RebusMickey1
TV Show1985EastEndersVictor Brown207
TV Show1988EurocopsMcCulloch1
TV Show2004New TricksGeorge Milligan1
TV Show2011Young James Herriot3
TV Show1982Objects of AffectionCharles1
TV Show2019GuiltAlbert1
TV Show1982Cloud HoweSands4
TV Show2010Going PostalMr. Spools2
TV Show2013ShetlandAngus Wallace5

Crew

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Movie1992Swan SongOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1995In the Bleak MidwinterOriginal Music ComposerSound