Jimmy Yuill
Biography
Jimmy Yuill is a Scottish actor born in Golspie who belongs to the Royal Shakespeare Company and went on to join the Renaissance Theatre Company, where he and Kenneth Branagh first collaborated. He appeared in many of Branagh's films, including Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006), and was one of only two actors, along with Richard Briers, to appear in all five of Branagh's Shakespeare adaptations. He is best known for playing Detective Inspector Doug Kersey in the British television series Wycliffe. Other screen credits include Strictly Sinatra (2001), Retreat (2011), and The Raven (2012). On stage he played Creon in Antigone at the Tron in Glasgow in 2007, and in 2010 he was nominated for best male performance by the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland for Testament of Cresseid. He has also worked as a performance consultant, producer, and music composer.
70years old
Turns 71 on March 6in 144 days
- Born Golspie
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
- Also credited as James Evander Munro Yuill
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 28 years1993 to 2021
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A first
Yuill and Richard Briers share a distinction: they are the only actors who appeared in every one of Kenneth Branagh's five Shakespeare film adaptations, which are Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost and As You Like It.
Behind the camera
Yuill was the music composer for A Midwinter's Tale and Swan Song, and he and Richard Briers are the only actors in all five of Branagh's Shakespeare film adaptations.
Jimmy Yuill movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Kenneth Branagh directed three of these films. Two actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Richard Briers's page
Richard Clifford's page
Kenneth Branagh's page
Brian Blessed's page
Adrian Lester's page
Gerard Horan's page
Also two films together1 more actor
- Patrick DoyleAs You Like It (2006) and Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.