Early life

Yulin was born in Los Angeles, California in 1937. He was raised in a Jewish home. Yulin attended UCLA, where he studied acting with fellow actor, Jeff Corey. Yulin made his off-Broadway debut in 1963.

Career

Yulin made his New York debut in 1963 in Next Time I'll Sing to You by James Saunders and continued to work frequently in theater throughout his career. His Broadway debut came in 1980's Watch on the Rhine. He has returned to Broadway multiple times in productions of The Visit featuring Jane Alexander, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Price, and Hedda Gabler featuring Kate Burton and Michael Emerson. In 2010 he played Willy Loman, the lead role in Death of A Salesman at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, Ireland.

His first prominent film role was his portrayal of Wyatt Earp in "Doc"(1971) starring Stacy Keach as "Doc" Holliday. He is notable in the Brian De Palma film Scarface (1983) as corrupt cop Mel Bernstein. In 1989, he played the role of loud and obnoxious Judge Stephen Wexler in Ghostbusters II. He later appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in the episode "Duet". During the second season of the TV series 24, he played the Director of the National Security Agency Roger Stanton. He was nominated for a 1996 Emmy for his portrayal of crime boss Jerome Belasco in the sitcom Frasier. In the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he played Quentin Travers, head of the Watchers' Council. Yulin also appeared in Season 3 of Entourage, in the episode "Return of the King", as studio head Arthur Gadoff. In 2009, he performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. In 2010 he appeared in the AMC series Rubicon.

In addition to acting, Yulin is a director and won the Lucille Lortel Award for directing The Trip to Bountiful at Signature Theatre in New York with Lois Smith.

Personal life

Yulin was married to actress Gwen Welles until her death in 1993.

TV and filmography

Maidstone (1970) End of the Road (1970) Neither Are We Enemies (1970), TV movie Doc (1971) Watched (1973) Incident at Vichy (1973), TV movie The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1973), TV series Barnaby Jones (1974), TV series Kojak (1974), TV series Parker Adderson, Philosopher (1974) (TV Short) The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974), TV movie The Greatest Gift (1974), TV movie The Legend of Hillbilly John (1974) Watched! (1974) The Midnight Man (1974) Melvin Purvis: G-Man (1974) The Greatest Gift (1974) The Missiles of October (1974), TV movie Little House on the Prairie (1975), TV series Baretta (1975), TV series Caribe (1975), TV series Hamburger Hamlet (1975) (Short) Ironside (1975), TV series Police Woman (1975), TV series S.W.A.T. (1975), TV series The Trial of Chaplain Jensen (1975), TV movie The Kansas City Massacre (1975) Night Moves (1975) Dynasty (1976), TV movie Insight (1976), TV series Most Wanted (1976), TV series St. Ives (1976) Victory at Entebbe (1976), TV movie Music School, The/Parker Adderson, Philosopher (1977) American Raspberry (1977) Ransom for Alice! (1977), TV movie Roger & Harry: The Mitera Target (1977), TV movie Wonder Woman (1977), TV series When Every Day Was the Fourth of July (1978) How the West Was Won (1978-1979), TV mini-series

Steel (1979) The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang (1979), TV movie The Night Rider (1979), TV movie The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther (1979), TV movie Meeting of Minds (1979-1981), TV series Scarface (1983) As the World Turns (1984-1985), TV series Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985), TV mini-series Short Fuse (1986) Cagney & Lacey (1986), TV series The Believers (1987) Fatal Beauty (1987) Candy Mountain (1987) Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987), TV movie Bad Dreams (1988) Judgment in Berlin (1988) Another Woman (1988) Ghostbusters II (1989) Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (1989) Daughter of the Streets (1990), TV movie Traitor in My House (1990), TV movie Narrow Margin (1990) WIOU (1990-1991), TV series Face of a Stranger (1991), TV movie There Goes the Neighborhood (1992) The Heart of Justice (1992), TV movie Civil Wars (1992), TV series Final Analysis (1992), uncredited Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), TV series The Last Hit (1993), TV movie Clear and Present Danger (1994) Stuart Saves His Family (1995) The Baby-Sitters Club (1995) Cutthroat Island (1995) Truman (1995), TV movie Loch Ness (1996) Multiplicity (1996) Frasier (1996), TV series If These Walls Could Talk (1996), TV movie Looking for Richard (1996) Murder at 1600 (1997)

The American Experience (1997-2001), documentary TV series Bean (1997) Hostile Waters (1997), TV movie La Femme Nikita (1997), TV series Murphy Brown (1997), TV series American Masters (1998), documentary TV series Vengeance Unlimited (1999), TV series The Hurricane (1999) Cradle Will Rock (1999) Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1999-2002), TV series The X-Files (2000), TV series The Virginian (2000), TV movie The Million Dollar Hotel (2001) Rush Hour 2 (2001) American Outlaws (2001) Training Day (2001) Chelsea Walls (2002) The Emperor's Club (2002) 24 (2002-03) Mister Sterling (2003), TV series King of the Corner (2004) Game 6 (2005) Third Watch (2005), TV series The Treatment (2006) Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2007), TV series Entourage (2008), TV series Cashmere Mafia (2008), TV series Canterbury's Law (2008), TV series Law & Order (1994, 2008), TV series Loving Leah (2009), TV movie The People Speak (2009) Damages (2009), TV series My Soul to Take (2010) Madso's War (2010), TV movie Rubicon (2010), TV series Nikita (2011-12), TV series Pan Am (2011), TV series The Place Beyond the Pines (2013) Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013) A Most Violent Year (2014)

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