
Acting
Jimmy Yuill
Birth Date
January 1, 1956
(70 years old)
Place of Birth
Golspie, Scotland
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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.
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EastEnders
Victor Brown
1985 • 207 episodes

Shetland
Angus Wallace
2013 • 5 episodes

Screen Two
Man at Dyke
1985 • 1 episode

A Touch of Frost
Charles Lightfoot
1992 • 1 episode

New Tricks
George Milligan
2004 • 1 episode

Murphy's Law
Mr Davidson
2001 • 1 episode

Dalziel and Pascoe
Robert MacAlpine
1996 • 2 episodes

Wycliffe
DI Doug Kersey
1994 • 36 episodes

Guilt
Albert
2019 • 1 episode

ScreenPlay
Det. Sgt. Chandler
1986 • 1 episode

Hamish Macbeth
Lachlan McCrae
1995 • 6 episodes

The Afternoon Play
Geoffrey
2003 • 1 episode

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Greigori
1994

Rebus
Mickey
2000 • 1 episode

Artemis Fowl
Fisherman (Time Freeze)
2020

Much Ado About Nothing
Friar Francis
1993

The Raven
Captain Eldridge
2012

Going Postal
Mr. Spools
2010 • 2 episodes

Eurocops
McCulloch
1988 • 1 episode

Local Hero
Iain
1983