Jimmy Yuill
Acting
1956-01-01 · 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.
Filmography
TheatersThe Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
2026 · Movie
The Road Dance
2022 · Movie
The Kindred
2021 · Movie
Artemis Fowl
2020 · Movie
Guilt
2019 · Series
All Is True
2018 · Movie
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013 · Movie
Shetland
2013 · Series
Flat Lake
2012 · Movie
The Raven
2012 · Movie
Young James Herriot
2011 · Series
Retreat
2011 · Movie
Going Postal
2010 · Series
Princess Kaiulani
2010 · Movie
Within the Whirlwind
2009 · Movie
Extraordinary Rendition
2007 · Movie
The Magic Flute
2006 · Movie
As You Like It
2006 · Movie
Ladies in Lavender
2004 · Movie
The Rocket Post
2004 · Movie
New Tricks
2004 · Series
The Afternoon Play
2003 · Series
Murphy's Law
2001 · Series
Strictly Sinatra
2001 · Movie
Schneider's 2nd Stage
2001 · Movie
Rebus
2000 · Series
Love's Labour's Lost
2000 · Movie
Monsignor Renard
2000 · Series
Psychos
1999 · Series
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Series
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995 · Movie
Hamish Macbeth
1995 · Series
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994 · Movie
Wycliffe
1994 · Series
Grushko
1994 · Movie
Much Ado About Nothing
1993 · Movie
A Touch of Frost
1992 · Series
Swan Song
1992 · Movie
Paper Mask
1990 · Movie
Discovering Hamlet
1990 · Movie
Henry V
1989 · Movie
The Picnic
1989 · Movie
Sales People from Hell
1989 · Movie
Eurocops
1988 · Series
The Interrogation of John
1987 · Movie
ScreenPlay
1986 · Series
A Sense of Freedom
1985 · Movie
EastEnders
1985 · Series
Screen Two
1985 · Series
Local Hero
1983 · Movie
Objects of Affection
1982 · Series
Our Winnie
1982 · Movie
Cloud Howe
1982 · Series
Andrina
1981 · Movie
The Good Time Girls
1981 · Movie
Death Watch
1980 · Movie