David Yip

Actor 15 · 1979 – 2026 · 🎬 11 📺 4 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

David Nicholas Yip is a British actor and playwright. He gained prominence through his role in the BBC series The Chinese Detective (1981–1982) as the first Chinese lead on British television.

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All · 15 🎬 Movies · 11 📺 TV · 4

Drama Action Crime Science-Fiction Adventure

Highlights

Doctor Plague

2026

Wolf King

2025

Break

2020

Frequent Collaborators

🎭

Stewart Sugg

2 shared

🎭

Michael Elkin

2 shared

🎭

Don Boyd

2 shared

Aaron Swartz

2 shared

🎭

Charlie Bentley

1 shared

Richard Harris

1 shared

All decades 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

🎬 Movies

Doctor Plague

actor

2026

Break

actor

2020

My Kingdom

actor

2001

Entrapment

actor

1999

Fast Food

actor

1998

Murder on the Moon

actor

1989

A View to a Kill

actor

1985

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

actor

1984

The Quatermass Conclusion

actor

1979

Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks

actor

1979

🎬

Savages

actor

📺 TV Shows

Wolf King

actor

2025

Luo Bao Bei

actor

2018

📺

Every Silver Lining

actor

1993

The Chinese Detective

actor

1981

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