Yelland, David

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Yelland, David

PERSONAL

Education: Attended Cambridge University.

Career: Actor.

CREDITS

Television Appearances; Series:

Nick Rumpole, "Rumpole and the Age for Retirement," Rumpole of the Bailey, Series II, PBS, 1981.

Gerry Lansdown, A Bit of a Do, 1989.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Title role, David Copperfield, BBC, 1974.

David Astor, Nancy Astor, BBC and PBS, 1982.

Captain Crewe, The Little Princess, PBS, 1987.

Edwin Brett, The Bretts, ITV and PBS, 1987.

Edwin Brett, The Bretts II, ITV and PBS, 1989.

Lanner, The Strauss Dynasty, 1991.

Edmund Burke, LIBERTY! The American Revolution (documentary), PBS, 1997.

Captain Jenkins, A Dance to the Music of Time, Channel 4, 1997.

Captain Montrose, Stranded, Hallmark Channel, 2002.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Jeremy Warrender, The Spider's Web, BBC, 1982.

Tony, May We Borrow Your Husband?, YTV, 1986.

Major Kassell, Dalziel and Pascoe: Exit Lines, Arts and Entertainment, 1997.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Cassio, Othello (also known as The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Othello), BBC, 1981.

Tony Orford, Star Quality, PBS, 1987.

Ernest Shackelton, Wilderness Men (documentary), 2000.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Flight Lieutenant Alan Cox, "Ambush," Secret Army, BBC, 1979.

Laverton West, "Murder in the Mews," Poirot, ITV and Arts and Entertainment, 1989.

Jack Jessop, "Hotrod Horace," Stay Lucky, YTV, 1990.

Gregory Hedley, Bad Girls, ITV, 2004.

Film Appearances:

Prince of Wales, Chariots of Fire, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981.

Stage Appearances:

Sir Robert Chiltern, An Ideal Husband, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, 1996–97.

Made London debut in Phaedra Brittanica, National Theatre; also appeared in Hamlet; John Gabriel Borkman; Summer; Major Barbara; The Shoemaker's Holiday; A Patriot for Me, Los Angeles; The Deep Blue Sea, London; The School for Scandal, London; Deathtrap, London; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The Importance of Being Earnest; as Bassanio, The Merchant of Venice.

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