David Yip

David Yip

Born: June 4, 1951
in Liverpool, England, UK

Movies for David Yip...

Break
Title: Break
Character: Vincent Qiang
Released: April 20, 2020
Type: Movie
Break is a 'rags to riches', feel good story. The film follows the exploits of Spencer Pryde (Sam Gittins), a gifted, inner-city kid, wasting his talents on petty crime. After witnessing the brutal murder of his pal Denis and finding himself in debt to a drug dealing thug named Ginger, it seems Spencer's life is spiraling out of control, until one day, a chance encounter with a Chinese stranger and former eight-ball pool champion named Vincent Quiang (David Yip) presents him with an opportunity to turn his life around. But in order to make a new life for himself, Spencer will first need to break away from peer pressure of his friends, his environment and all the negative influences of his current life.
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Title: Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
Character: Zeya Khin
Released: July 28, 2019
Type: TV
The origin story of Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, before they become Bruce Wayne’s parents.
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Title: Porters
Character: Dalai Lama
Released: September 20, 2017
Type: TV
Deluded Simon Porter, dreams of becoming a doctor - but he has to start from the bottom and be a porter. His plan? Work his way up to be the best porter the NHS has ever seen.
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Act of Grace
Title: Act of Grace
Released: February 15, 2008
Type: Movie
When Dezzie befriends new boy Yasin at his school, little does he know his life will take an unexpected turn that will ultimately shape his future. Having witnessed the perpetual racist taunts and bullying to the quiet Chinese newcomer, Dezzie, no stranger to beatings himself, stands up to Yasin's persecutors and wins the respect, not only of his tormentors, but more importantly of Yasin, and his family.
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Liverpool Nativity
Title: Liverpool Nativity
Character: Magi 2
Released: December 16, 2007
Type: Movie
Inspired by The Manchester Passion, Liverpool Nativity employs the city's great musical heritage as the soundtrack to a contemporary music drama set in a fictitious state, a tale as relevant today as it was 2,000 years ago. The live event tells the intimate personal story of a pregnant young girl set against a backdrop of political tension and unrest and stars a host of well- known Liverpool actors and personalities.
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Title: Arabian Nights
Character: Assad
Released: April 30, 2000
Type: TV
Targeted for assassination by his first wife and his evil brother, a young sultan must marry by the next full moon or he will lose his kingdom. His uncertainty over his newfound bride causes her to stall the sultan with a series of fantastic stories to ease the tension and stall her impending execution.
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Inside 'A View to a Kill'
Title: Inside 'A View to a Kill'
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "A View to a Kill"
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Entrapment
Title: Entrapment
Character: Chief of Police
Released: April 29, 1999
Type: Movie
Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.
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Fast Food
Title: Fast Food
Character: Mr. Fortune-cookie
Released: October 9, 1998
Type: Movie
A reformed young man with a steady job, Benny, returns to the city of his youth to find the girl he's been in love with since childhood and that's home to his four petty criminal friends, Jacko, Zac, Bisto and Flea.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Fergus Rooney
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Sailor One
Released: December 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
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Rich Deceiver
Title: Rich Deceiver
Character: Ricky Ramon
Released: September 2, 1995
Type: Movie
Ellie and Malc Freeman are a working-class couple in their forties who live in a terrace house in a poor district of Liverpool. Ellie has a part-time job as a shop assistant; Malc is a warehouseman in a dead-end job. Ellie is convinced that Malc can do better. One day Ellie wins £1.5 million on the football pools. Resisting the temptation to spend all the money on herself, she invests it in a local security firm - on condition that they give Malc a job as a salesman... and that they don't reveal how he got his big break. But does Ellie like the man that her husband has turned into?
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Title: Bugs
Released: April 1, 1995
Type: TV
Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers and other modern technology. It was originally broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC One, and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Carnival Films.
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Wild Justice
Title: Wild Justice
Character: Wong
Released: May 13, 1994
Type: Movie
Colonel Peter Stride is on the trail of a mysterious international criminal known only as Caliph.
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Title: Every Silver Lining
Released: May 27, 1993
Type: TV
Nat Silver (Andrew Sachs) and his wife Shirley (Frances De La Tour) run a cafe, the Silver Diner in the East End of London. With the help of their daughter Lorraine (Sarah Malin) and waiters Dean (Danny Swanson) and Willie (Oscar Quitak), the Silvers struggle to make a living.
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Title: Cluedo
Character: Himself
Released: July 25, 1990
Type: TV
Cluedo was a UK television game show based on the board game of the same name. Each week, a reenactment of the murder at the stately home Arlington Grange of a visiting guest was played and, through a combination of interrogating the suspects and deduction, celebrity guests had to discover who committed the murder, which of six weapons and in which room it was committed, whilst viewers were invited to play along at home.
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Murder on the Moon
Title: Murder on the Moon
Character: Chang
Released: May 9, 1989
Type: Movie
After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and Soviet investigators are forced to work on the case together.
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Title: Making Out
Released: January 6, 1989
Type: TV
Making Out is a British television series, shown by the BBC between 1989 and 1991. The series, created by Franc Roddam, written by Debbie Horsfield, mixed comedy and drama in its portrayal of the women who worked on the factory floor at New Lyne Electronics in Manchester, tackling the personal lives of the characters as well as wider issues of recession, redundancy and retrenchment as the factory goes through various crises and take-overs. The music for the series was composed by New Order. The main theme for the show is an adaptation of the song "Vanishing Point". There is a specific mix of this song called the Making Out Mix.
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Ping Pong
Title: Ping Pong
Character: Mike Wong
Released: July 17, 1987
Type: Movie
After restaurateur Sam Wong dies in a telephone booth after making a call, law clerk Elaine Choi is tasked with executing his will. In order for the will to be valid, it needs to be signed by its recipients, but Choi finds that each of them are reluctant to do so.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Jiang Guang
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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A View to a Kill
Title: A View to a Kill
Character: Chuck Lee
Released: May 24, 1985
Type: Movie
A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Title: The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Character: Young Working Man/Simon
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
The hardships faced by a woman trying to survive a bloody civil war while caring for the abandoned child of the deposed former ruler.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Title: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Character: Wu Han
Released: May 23, 1984
Type: Movie
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
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The Chelsea Murders
Title: The Chelsea Murders
Character: Denny
Released: December 30, 1981
Type: Movie
When a barmaid and part-time model becomes a murderer's third victim in Chelsea, the only apparent links are to a local reporter, Mary, and three art graduates financing a film with local part-time jobs.
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Title: Six Fifty-Five Special
Character: Self
Released: July 13, 1981
Type: TV
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Title: The Chinese Detective
Character: Detective Sergeant John Ho
Released: April 30, 1981
Type: TV
Chinese British Detective Sergeant John Ho solves cases in the East End of London. Ho fits the pattern of the maverick detective, prepared to use unorthodox methods to solve his cases, which emerged in series like Z Cars and The Sweeney.
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The Quatermass Conclusion
Title: The Quatermass Conclusion
Character: Frank Chen
Released: October 24, 1979
Type: Movie
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.
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Title: Quatermass
Character: Frank Chen
Released: October 24, 1979
Type: TV
In the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his granddaughter and a mysterious cult.
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Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
Title: Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
Character: Veldan
Released: September 22, 1979
Type: Movie
The Doctor and a newly-regenerated Romana arrive on Skaro to find that the Daleks, locked in a war with the robotic Movellans, have returned to retrieve their buried creator Davros.
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Title: The Professionals
Character: Editor
Released: December 30, 1977
Type: TV
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Veldan
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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Dream Hacker
Title: Dream Hacker
Character: Wang Lei
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Due to her age, Professor Jennifer Connelly is often described as a science prodigy. A genius of our time, with five Phd's psychology, psychiatry, neurology, physics and chemistry. Jennifer's primary studies are in dreams and the effects they have on the waking mind. For the past 6 years, her studies have led her to theorize that with the right equipment, she can not only watch and record someone else's dreams but maybe even influence them in a subconscious way. To prove this theory, and believing it may have military applications, Oxford obtains a substantial government grant to build the equipment Jennifer needs to journey into this new unknown area of neural science.