He starred alongside Renie Riano in the Jiggs and Maggie film series.

He emigrated to the United States with his parents on the steamship Bolivia, arriving at the Port of New York on 2 August 1892.

In 1919, Yule married fellow vaudevillian Nellie W. Carter, a native of Kansas City, Missouri.

In 1920, while they were appearing together in a Brooklyn production of A Gaiety Girl, their son Ninnian Joseph Yule Jr. was born.

[3] The Yules separated in 1924 during a slump in vaudeville, and Carter moved with her son to Hollywood in 1925.