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

• 2026The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford — King Ergon
• 2022The Road Dance — Doctor Connolly
• 2021The Kindred — Robert
• 2020Artemis Fowl — Fisherman (Time Freeze)
• Guilt — Albert
• 2018All Is True — Edward Woolmer
• 2013National Theatre Live: Macbeth — Banquo
• Shetland — Angus Wallace
• 2012Flat Lake — Murdo Strachen
• 2012The Raven — Captain Eldridge
• 2011Going Postal 2in1 — Mr. Spools
• 2011Retreat — Doug
• Young James Herriot
• Going Postal — Mr. Spools
• 2010Princess Kaiulani — Archie Cleghorn
• 2009Within the Whirlwind — Siderov
• 2007Extraordinary Rendition — University Dean
• 2006As You Like It — Corin
• 2006The Magic Flute — Queen's Commander
• 2004Ladies in Lavender — Constable Timmins
• New Tricks — George Milligan
• 2004The Rocket Post — James MacLeod
• The Afternoon Play — Geoffrey
• Murphy's Law — Mr Davidson
• 2001Schneider's 2nd Stage — Detective Chief Inspector
• 2001Strictly Sinatra — Rod Edmunds
• 2000Love's Labour's Lost — Constable Dull
• Monsignor Renard
• Rebus — Mickey
• Psychos — Alexander Drew
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Robert MacAlpine
• Hamish Macbeth — Lachlan McCrae
• 1995In the Bleak Midwinter — Original Music Composer
• 1994Grushko — Chazov
• 1994Mary Shelley's Frankenstein — Greigori
• Wycliffe — DI Doug Kersey
• 1993Much Ado About Nothing — Friar Francis
• A Touch of Frost — Charles Lightfoot
• 1992Swan Song — Original Music Composer
• 1990Paper Mask — Alec Moran
• 1989Henry V — Jamy
• 1989Sales People from Hell
• 1989The Picnic — Man at Dyke
• Eurocops — McCulloch
• 1987The Interrogation of John — Det. Sgt. Chandler
• ScreenPlay — Det. Sgt. Chandler
• 1985A Sense of Freedom — Dunkie
• EastEnders — Victor Brown
• Screen Two — Man at Dyke
• 1983Local Hero — Iain
• Cloud Howe — Sands
• Objects of Affection — Charles
• 1982Our Winnie — Charles
• 1981Andrina — Stanley
• 1981The Good Time Girls — Finlayson
• 1980Death Watch

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1990Discovering Hamlet — Himself / Guildenstern