Jimmy Yuill
Acting • Born 1956-01-01
Biography
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.
Filmography
49 credits
Grushko
Movie • 1994
Chazov
Local Hero
Movie • 1983
Iain
The Rocket Post
Movie • 2004
James MacLeod
Much Ado About Nothing
Movie • 1993
Friar Francis
Ladies in Lavender
Movie • 2004
Constable Timmins
The Magic Flute
Movie • 2006
Queen's Commander
Princess Kaiulani
Movie • 2010
Archie Cleghorn
The Raven
Movie • 2012
Captain Eldridge
As You Like It
Movie • 2006
Corin
Retreat
Movie • 2011
Doug
Within the Whirlwind
Movie • 2009
Siderov
Flat Lake
Movie • 2012
Murdo Strachen
The Picnic
Movie • 1989
Man at Dyke
Andrina
Movie • 1981
Stanley
Paper Mask
Movie • 1990
Alec Moran
Henry V
Movie • 1989
Jamy
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Movie • 1994
Greigori
The Interrogation of John
Movie • 1987
Det. Sgt. Chandler
Love's Labour's Lost
Movie • 2000
Constable Dull
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Movie • 2013
Banquo
Schneider's 2nd Stage
Movie • 2001
Detective Chief Inspector
Discovering Hamlet
Movie • 1990
Himself / Guildenstern
Extraordinary Rendition
Movie • 2007
University Dean
Strictly Sinatra
Movie • 2001
Rod Edmunds
A Sense of Freedom
Movie • 1985
Dunkie
All Is True
Movie • 2018
Edward Woolmer
Artemis Fowl
Movie • 2020
Fisherman (Time Freeze)
Death Watch
Movie • 1980
The Good Time Girls
Movie • 1981
Finlayson
The Kindred
Movie • 2021
Robert
The Road Dance
Movie • 2022
Doctor Connolly
Our Winnie
Movie • 1982
Charles
Sales People from Hell
Movie • 1989
Wycliffe
TV • 1994
DI Doug Kersey
Hamish Macbeth
TV • 1995
Lachlan McCrae
Monsignor Renard
TV • 2000
Rebus
TV • 2000
Mickey
EastEnders
TV • 1985
Victor Brown
Eurocops
TV • 1988
McCulloch
New Tricks
TV • 2004
George Milligan
Young James Herriot
TV • 2011
Objects of Affection
TV • 1982
Charles
Guilt
TV • 2019
Albert
Cloud Howe
TV • 1982
Sands
Going Postal
TV • 2010
Mr. Spools
Shetland
TV • 2013
Angus Wallace
The Afternoon Play
TV • 2003
Geoffrey
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Man at Dyke
Murphy's Law
TV • 2001
Mr Davidson