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Jimmy Yuill
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 m…
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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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Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
Movie King Ergon
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2022
The Road Dance
Movie Doctor Connolly
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2021
The Kindred
Movie Robert
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2020
Artemis Fowl
Movie Fisherman (Time Freeze)
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2019
Guilt
TV show Albert
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2018
All Is True
Movie Edward Woolmer
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2013
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Movie Banquo
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2013
Shetland
TV show Angus Wallace
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2012
Flat Lake
Movie Murdo Strachen
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2012
The Raven
Movie Captain Eldridge
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2011
Young James Herriot
TV show
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2011
Retreat
Movie Doug
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2011
Going Postal 2in1
Movie Mr. Spools
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2010
Going Postal
TV show Mr. Spools
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2010
Princess Kaiulani
Movie Archie Cleghorn
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2009
Within the Whirlwind
Movie Siderov
More credits
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2007
Extraordinary Rendition
Movie University Dean
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2006
The Magic Flute
Movie Queen's Commander
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2006
As You Like It
Movie Corin
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2004
Ladies in Lavender
Movie Constable Timmins
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2004
The Rocket Post
Movie James MacLeod
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2004
New Tricks
TV show George Milligan
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2003
The Afternoon Play
TV show Geoffrey
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2001
Murphy's Law
TV show Mr Davidson
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2001
Strictly Sinatra
Movie Rod Edmunds
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2001
Schneider's 2nd Stage
Movie Detective Chief Inspector
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2000
Rebus
TV show Mickey
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2000
Love's Labour's Lost
Movie Constable Dull
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2000
Monsignor Renard
TV show
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1999
Psychos
TV show Alexander Drew
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1996
Dalziel and Pascoe
TV show Robert MacAlpine
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1995
In the Bleak Midwinter
Movie Original Music Composer
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1995
Hamish Macbeth
TV show Lachlan McCrae
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1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Movie Greigori
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1994
Wycliffe
TV show DI Doug Kersey
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1994
Grushko
Movie Chazov
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1993
Much Ado About Nothing
Movie Friar Francis
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1992
A Touch of Frost
TV show Charles Lightfoot
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1992
Swan Song
Movie Original Music Composer
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1990
Paper Mask
Movie Alec Moran
