David Yip

Birthday: 4 June 1951, Liverpool, England, UK

Birth Name: David Nicholas Yip

Born in Liverpool, one of eight children. David's father was a Chinese seaman from the Canton area of southern China, and his mother was from Liverpool. He trained at E15 Acting School, London in 1973 and since then worked in Film, Television, Theatre, Radio and other voice work both in the UK and internationally. David still visits and works ... Show more »

I didn't like my dad. It was my own arrogance in a sense: I took the high moral ground and said, 'Yo...Show more »

I didn't like my dad. It was my own arrogance in a sense: I took the high moral ground and said, 'You're basically a waste of space. Any wrong choice you were going to make in your life, you made it - apart from having your family. Show less «

[on his play 'Gold Mountain'] I had to learn to respect my father - and I do now. But we have the fa...Show more »

[on his play 'Gold Mountain'] I had to learn to respect my father - and I do now. But we have the father and son characters have conversations I would never have been able to have with my father. And I love that about any kind of drama: you can make the inarticulate articulate in drama without destroying the reality of what they're doing. Show less «

David Yip

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