Personal Info
Birth date
1956-01-01 (69 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Golspie, Scotland
Also known as
-Jimmy Yuill
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
EastEnders
4.118
Overview:
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.Shetland
7.494
Overview:
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.Wycliffe
6
Overview:
Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. It was produced by HTV and broadcast on the ITV Network, following a pilot episode on 7 August 1993, between 24 July 1994 and 5 July 1998. The series was filmed in Cornwall, with a production office in Truro. Music for the series was composed by Nigel Hess and was awarded the Royal Television Society award for the best television theme. Wycliffe is played by Jack Shepherd, assisted by DI Doug Kersey and DI Lucy Lane. Each episode deals with a murder investigation. In the early series, the stories are adapted from Burley's books and are in classic whodunit style, often with quirky characters and plot elements. In later seasons, the tone becomes more naturalistic and there is more emphasis on internal politics within the police.New Tricks
7.4
Overview:
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.Going Postal
7.2
Overview:
Moist von Lipwig is a con-man with a particular talent-- he is utterly unremarkable. When his execution is stayed in Terry Pratchett's remarkable Discworld, he must work off his debt to society as the land's head Postman. Things are not always as they seem, and soon Lipwig is delivering mail for his very life!Hamish Macbeth
7.571
Overview:
Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton. The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the west coast of Scotland. The titular character was played by Robert Carlyle. It ran for three series from 1995 to 1997, with the first two series having six episodes and the third having eight.Guilt
6.7
Overview:
Two brothers seem to get away with a crime - but soon discover they can trust no-one, including each other, in a pitch-black, contemporary thriller.Cloud Howe
NYR
Overview:
Dramatisation of the second part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'Scots Quair' trilogy, in which Chris is now married to the minister of a small industrial town.Young James Herriot
7.6
Overview:
Young James Herriot is a three-part British television drama based on the early life of veterinary surgeon James Herriot. It features Iain de Caestecker as the title character following his arrival at veterinary college, alongside Amy Manson and Ben Lloyd-Hughes as fellow students Whirly Tyson and Rob McAloon. Directed by Michael Keillor and written by Ann McManus and Eileen Gallagher, it was a Koco Drama production for the BBC which first aired on BBC One in December 2011.Rebus
7.028
Overview:
Detective series set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspector John Rebus, whose methods earn him the wrath of his superiors, does not hesitate to circumvent the law to enforce it.Monsignor Renard
NYR
Overview:
Monsignor Renard was a four-part ITV television drama set in occupied France during World War II. It starred John Thaw as Monsignor Augustine Renard, a French priest who is drawn into the Resistance movement. The series was later shown in the U.S. as part of Masterpiece Theatre.The Raven
6.292
Overview:
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.Artemis Fowl
5.5
Overview:
Artemis Fowl is a 12-year-old genius and descendant of a long line of criminal masterminds. He soon finds himself in an epic battle against a race of powerful underground fairies who may be behind his father's disappearance.Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
6.432
Overview:
Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.Much Ado About Nothing
6.93
Overview:
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.The Kindred
6.4
Overview:
After her father’s suicide, a young mother investigates what led to his death. But when she is haunted by spirits and unearths an unsolved mystery from 30 years ago, she discovers a dark family history that could prove deadly for her child.Henry V
7.134
Overview:
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.Love's Labour's Lost
5.6
Overview:
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.As You Like It
5.7
Overview:
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in 19th-century Japan.All Is True
6
Overview:
London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.Ladies in Lavender
6.4
Overview:
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.Local Hero
6.7
Overview:
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.The Road Dance
6.569
Overview:
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.Retreat
5.6
Overview:
Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.In the Bleak Midwinter
7.085
Overview:
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.The Magic Flute
6.3
Overview:
During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the supposedly evil Sarastro. But all is not as it seems.Acting
2022The Road Dance as Doctor Connolly
2021The Kindred as Robert
2020Artemis Fowl as Fisherman (Time Freeze)
2019Guilt (1 Episode) as Albert
2018All Is True as Edward Woolmer
2013National Theatre Live: Macbeth as Banquo, Thane of Lochaber, general in the King's army
2013Shetland (6 Episodes) as Angus Wallace
2012Flat Lake as Murdo Strachen
2012The Raven as Captain Eldridge
2011Young James Herriot (3 Episodes) as Unknown
2011Retreat as Doug
2010Going Postal (2 Episodes) as Mr. Spools
2010Princess Kaiulani as Archie Cleghorn
2009Within the Whirlwind as Siderov
2007Extraordinary Rendition as University Dean
2006The Magic Flute as Queen's Commander
2006As You Like It as Corin
2004Ladies in Lavender as Constable Timmins
2004The Rocket Post as James MacLeod
2004New Tricks (1 Episode) as George Milligan
2001Strictly Sinatra as Rod Edmunds
2001Schneider's 2nd Stage as Detective Chief Inspector
2000Rebus (1 Episode) as Mickey
2000Love's Labour's Lost as Constable Dull
2000Monsignor Renard (4 Episodes) as Unknown
1995Hamish Macbeth (6 Episodes) as Lachlan McCrae
1994Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Greigori
1994Wycliffe (36 Episodes) as DI Doug Kersey
1994Grushko as Chazov
1993Much Ado About Nothing as Friar Francis
1990Paper Mask as Alec Moran
1990Discovering Hamlet as Himself / Guildenstern
1989Henry V as Jamy
1989The Picnic as Man at Dyke
1988Eurocops (1 Episode) as McCulloch
1987The Interrogation of John as Det. Sgt. Chandler
1985A Sense of Freedom as Dunkie
1985EastEnders (207 Episodes) as Victor Brown
1983Local Hero as Iain
1982Our Winnie as Charles
1982Objects of Affection (1 Episode) as Charles
1982Cloud Howe (4 Episodes) as Sands
1981Andrina as Stanley
1981The Good Time Girls as Finlayson
1980Death Watch as Unknown
Sound
1995In the Bleak Midwinter ... Original Music Composer
1992Swan Song ... Original Music Composer