Ian Yule

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Ian G. Yule (born 1931 in Sculcoates near Kingston upon Hull , United Kingdom ) is a retired British soldier , mercenary , stunt performer and film actor .

Live and act

As a professional soldier and mercenary

Yule has an unusually diverse vita. An orphan at an early age , Yule grew up with a strange couple who fell victim to German bombings during World War II . His new adoptive parents became Americans living in the UK. Around 1948 he registered as a so-called “Boy Soldier” ( child soldier ) with the British Armed Forces and began his service as a trumpeter with the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery. At the School of Artillery in Larkhill Yule was then trained. This was followed by further training courses in which he was trained as a fighter in special operations, and stationed in various locations.

After a stopover in Malaya, he claims to have been deployed in the Korean War in 1950 and to have taken part in the “Battle of Inchon”, also known in this country as Operation Chromite . Further military or war missions followed in different locations ( Egypt , Yemen and again Egypt during the Suez crisis in 1956) - initially still in British service, but later also as a mercenary.

At the side of the notorious mercenary leader “Mad” Mike Hoare , Yule was deployed in the Congo crisis and joined the Rhodesian army of apartheid premier Ian Smith and its South African counterpart, the South African Defense Force of the apartheid regime there. Yule finally settled in South Africa and stayed there for the next five decades.

As an actor in a film

Yule had already gained his first cinematic experience as a stuntman in the 1959 Ben Hur film and from 1966 appeared regularly in front of the camera. With a stout, compact stature, he was the ideal cast when it came to playing beefy soldier-warblers, mercenaries and daredevil fighters, for whom their own life doesn't matter much. Ian Yule was seen as such types in British and American films such as the rough mercenary flick The Wild Geese Are Coming , in which his old company commander Mike Hoare (as a military advisor) took part on Yule's recommendation , and the war film The Last Offensive, set in colonial South Africa . Ian Yule got a continuous role in 1968 in the German adventure television series Treasure Hunters of Our Days , made in South Africa and directed by Rolf von Sydow .

This was followed by small roles in a plethora of other, often martial and quite one-dimensionally constructed adventure and war films of the type Eine insane Safari, City of Blood (where he got one of his few leading roles), River of Death - River of Horror , Cyborg Cop 3 , The Lost World and Operation Delta Force III . Since 1999, Ian Yule has only been seen in German television films made on location in southern Africa, most recently in The White African .

Shortly before Christmas 2015, his health was in very poor condition and he returned to Great Britain, where the European representative of the South African Legion, the veterans' organization, took care of him.

Filmography (selection)

As an actor, unless otherwise stated

  • 1959: Ben Hur (as a stuntman)
  • 1961: The Longest Day ( The Longest Day , as a stuntman)
  • 1966: Wild Season
  • 1967: The Professor and the Beauty Queen
  • 1968: Dr. Kalie
  • 1968: Treasure hunters of our days (German TV series)
  • 1969: Danie Bosman: The verhaal van the greatest SA composers
  • 1969: Scottie & Co.
  • 1970: Stop Exchange
  • 1970: Satan's Harvest
  • 1970: Shangani Petrol
  • 1971: Vengeance Cop
  • 1971: The banneling
  • 1972: The Winners
  • 1972: Dog Squad
  • 1973: Greetings from Gamma 03 (The Big Game)
  • 1974: ... and the night knows no mercy
  • 1975: Olie Colony
  • 1975: Sell a Million
  • 1976: One Away
  • 1977: Rendezvous with Death (Golden Rendezvous)
  • 1977: Mister Deathman
  • 1977: The Wild Geese (The Wild Geese)
  • 1978: The Final Offensive (Zulu Dawn)
  • 1980: A Crazy Safari (Safari 3000)
  • 1982: Shamwari
  • 1983: For King and Country
  • 1983: On the move (an episode of the German TV series)
  • 1984: 1922 (series)
  • 1985: Jake Speed
  • 1986: City of Blood
  • 1987: Guerrilla Force
  • 1988: River of Death - River of horror (River of Death)
  • 1989: Accidents
  • 1990: Young Survivors
  • 1992: The Lost World (The Lost World)
  • 1992: Return to the Lost World (Return to the Lost World)
  • 1993: The Secret of the Spanish Rose (Point of Impact)
  • 1994: Dark Desires: Thelma
  • 1994: Astrocop (Lunarcop)
  • 1995: Cyborg Cop 3
  • 1995: Warhead
  • 1996: Orion's Key
  • 1997: Ernest in Africa (Ernest Goes to Africa)
  • 1997: Reckless (Merchant of Death)
  • 1997: Operation Delta Force III (Operation Delta Force III: Clear Target)
  • 1998: Betrayed (Traitor's Heart)
  • 1999: The expense knight
  • 2001: migratory birds of love
  • 2001: Crash into the death zone
  • 2004: The white African

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ian G. Yule on findmypast.co.uk

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Yule, Ian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yule, Ian G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British soldier, mercenary, stunt performer and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Sculcoates at Kingston upon Hull , United Kingdom