Occupation Actor Role Actor | Name Harris Yulin Years active 1970–present | |
Awards Obie Award for Performance, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director Movies Scarface, Training Day, The Place Beyond the Pines, Bean, Fur Similar People Paul Shenar, Miriam Colon, Robert Loggia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Gwen Welles |
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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), Clear and Present Danger (1994), 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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- Scarface 4 8 movie clip every dog has his day 1983 hd
- Harris Yulin Actor
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Filmography
- References
Harris Yulin - Actor
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. He 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, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Price, and Hedda Gabler.
In 2010 he played Willy Loman 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 was 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 portrayed a corrupt National Security Adviser in the 1994 Harrison Ford thriller Clear and Present Danger.
On television, Yulin 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.
Yulin is also 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. His second marriage is to Kristen Lowman.