Harris Yulin

Harris Yulin

Born: November 5, 1937
Age: 86
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, US
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Biography

Harris Yulin (born November 5, 1937) is an American actor who has appeared in over a hundred film and television series roles, such as Scarface (1983), Ghostbusters II (1989), Looking for Richard (1996), The Hurricane (1999), Training Day (2001), and Frasier which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award Nomination in 1996.

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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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