Jimmy Yuill

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James Evander Munro Yuill (born 13 February 1956) is a Scottish actor. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and later joined the Renaissance Theatre Company, where he first worked with Kenneth Branagh. He went on to appear in many of Branagh's films, most recently as Edward Woolmer in the 2018 film All Is True. Yuill, along with Richard Briers, are the only actors to have appeared in all five of Branagh's film adaptations of Shakespeare plays (Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, and As You Like It). He was also the music composer for A Midwinter's Tale and Swan Song. He is best known for the character Detective Inspector Doug Kersey in the popular British television series Wycliffe. He was in every episode except the last three in Series 5. The series was cancelled after that because Jack Shepherd refused to continue in the title role when the producers had sacked Yuill "for insurance reasons" after he contracted life-threatening meningitis during filming...

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