Jimmy Yuill
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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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Golspie, Scotland
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Birthday: January 01, 1956
Age: 69 years old
Gender: Male
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Grushko
Overview: A restaurant is fire-bombed, a TV journalist and a member of a local mafia are murdered, and a valuable statuette is stolen. Yevgeni Grushko is Head of the Mafia Investigations Division of the local police force, facing new challenges as the internicine gang rivalries escalate towards war on the streets.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-24
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Local Hero
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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-17
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The Rocket Post
Overview: Switch off and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Scotland. Based on fact, this film will take you on a journey of love amidst spectacular scenery. The Rocket Post will give a convincing portrayal of island life, beliefs and culture of the time A definite for those who have even the tiniest drop of Scottish blood..... as it will tug at the heart strings and stir the soul. Something that can be shared with the family and watched time and time again..................a real classic, one that I am sure will walk alongside some of the great films that never die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-13
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Much Ado About Nothing
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.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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Ladies in Lavender
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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-12
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The Magic Flute
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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-07
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Princess Kaiulani
Overview: Ka'iulani, a 19th-century Hawaiian princess, is raised in England but determined to maintain her people's independence from aggressive American businessmen. After being sent to England as a child by her Scottish father, Ka'iulani returns to Hawaii and becomes a political activist who fights to retain her throne, even though she must leave her English paramour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-14
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The Raven
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.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-09
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As You Like It
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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-01
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Retreat
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.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-14
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Within the Whirlwind
Overview: During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-18
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Flat Lake
Overview: A new comedy horror film set in the vein of old 1950’s and 1960’s movies of this popular genre. Co-written by IFTA award winning writer Pat McCabe (Breakfast on Pluto, The Butcher Boy) and British writer and director Kevin Allen (Twin Town), Flat Lake is currently in pre production in Co. Monaghan, Ireland. "Flat Lake" follows the peculiar activities of Sir Charles Wimsgrove who has hatched an eccentric plan to convert the entire area into some sort of crazy Eden-like paradise. However, his plan is thwarted by local journalist Sinead McSwain, who, with the help of Historian, Doctor Guy Bensley, discovers her own unique other-wordly powers that ultimately enables her to put a stop to Wimsgrove's lunacy.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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The Picnic
Overview: A widowed teacher marries again, but her hopes of her daughter accepting a stepfather her own age, and her anticipation of a birthday picnic by the river are clouded by a series of murders in the district and by a fear rooted rather nearer home.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-19
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Andrina
Overview: Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the dark winter, he is grateful for her kindness and company. But as she starts to enquire about his past, he worries about the long-held secret he'll have to reveal to her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-22
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Henry V
Overview: In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-05
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Paper Mask
Overview: A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.
Genres: Crime Drama Fantasy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-04
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The Interrogation of John
Overview: A suspect is brought to a London police station charged with gross indecency. Police at the station believe he is connected with a murder in the area earlier that night, but the suspect refuses to speak.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-30
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National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Overview: Performing from within the walls of a deconsecrated Manchester church, Kenneth Branagh takes the lead role in this ambitious production of William Shakespeare's tragic tale of ambition and treachery.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-19
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Schneider's 2nd Stage
Overview: Which way lies madness? A man named Joe drives his Land Rover into a remote field. The purpose of his trip is obscure. Is he scouting a location? Has he been sent by someone to check out the area? His cell phone rings and a stranger's voice tells him to look in the back of his car. He does, and discovers the dead body of a young girl who's gone missing. The voice on the phone tells him he's been set up, that no one will believe him, and that he'd better follow instructions and bury the body. As he complies, his headaches worsen. Is there any way out for Joe?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-31
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Love's Labour's Lost
Overview: The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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Discovering Hamlet
Overview: IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the first time in his professional career under the guidance of celebrated actor Derek Jacobi. Narrated by Patrick Stewart, this hour-long film documents how Kenneth Branagh and Derek Jacobi, two intelligent and passionate men, found new depths in Shakespeare’s classic drama, Hamlet. Filmmakers Mark Olshaker and Larry Klein follow the company through four weeks of rehearsals, from the first read-throughs to opening night.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-07
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Extraordinary Rendition
Overview: A man is abducted from the streets of London and transported via secret flights to an unknown country. Held in solitary confinement and cut off from the outside world, he is plunged into a lawless nightmare of detention without trial, interrogation and torture. Returned without explanation to the UK many months later, he is left to pick up the pieces of a shattered life in a world he no longer recognises.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-20
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Strictly Sinatra
Overview: In Glasgow, Toni Cocozza, age 28, aspires to be a lounge singer; his repertoire is strictly Sinatra, backed by Bill, an aging piano player and his only friend. Toni dreams big and enters a local television talent show. About that time, a local Mob boss decides Toni is great entertainment and invites him to be his guest at a casino. Toni chats up Irene, a cigarette girl, he gets an odd job or two from Chisolm, the mobster's number two, the audition goes bust, and Toni's future is uncertain. One thing leads to another with the Mob. Is Toni at a crossroads, or is there in reality no turning or going back?
Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-29
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A Sense of Freedom
Overview: The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-18
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All Is True
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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-21
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Artemis Fowl
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.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction Family Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-29
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Death Watch
Overview: In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-23
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The Good Time Girls
Overview: The oil rigs provide rich pickings for those who work on them, but for wives isolated from husbands affluence is not enough.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-07
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The Kindred
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.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-28
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The Road Dance
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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-20
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Our Winnie
Overview: Winnie is a mentally handicapped woman who lives with her elderly mother (Cora) and aunt (Ida). They visit the cemetery where Winnie’s father is buried. Also in the cemetery are two art students, one of whom (Liz) asks if she can take a photograph of the three women. She takes it while they are not prepared, making them look ridiculous (Cora is putting her make-up on, Winnie is staring at the camera with her mouth open). Cora is angry, and Liz takes another of them properly posed. But she enters the first photograph for a competition, where it wins a prize
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-12
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