MORE ABOUT HARRIS YULIN!
The legendary Emmy-nominated actor Harris Yulin, who starred in films like Training Day, Clear and Present Danger, and Scarface, as well as television shows like Frasier, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Ozark, has passed away.
He was eighty-seven. Yulin’s family and manager, Sue Leibman, revealed that he passed away in New York City on Tuesday due to a heart arrest.
Yulin was a well-known figure who worked consistently throughout the course of a career that lasted more than 50 years, despite never landing a major role that made him famous.
In a 2010 interview with The Irish Times, he acknowledged, “I’m not that high-profile.”
“I simply do whatever comes up next.” The character actor starred in the following Broadway productions: Watch on the Rhine (1980), The Visit (1992), The Diary of Anne Frank (1997), The Price (1999), and Hedda Gabler (2001).
In addition, he directed the off-Broadway performances of Baba Goya (1989), This Lime Tree Bower (1999), and The Trip to Bountiful (2005).
He also directed the Don Juan in Hell staged for London’s Riverside Studios in 1995 and the Candida production at Canada’s Shaw Festival in 1970.
Yulin made a strong impression in Scarface (1983) as the dishonest Miami detective who extorts money from Al Pacino’s Tony Montana, in Clear and Present Danger (1994) as the cunning national security adviser who spars with Harrison Ford’s Jack Ryan, and in Antoine Fuqua’s Training Day (2001) as the corrupt police officer Rosselli.
In addition, he portrayed the silly scientist who makes four different copies of Michael Keaton’s Doug Kinney in Multiplicity (1996) and the judge whose courtroom is overrun by ghosts in Ghostbusters II (1989).
More recently, Yulin starred in two Netflix series: Ozark, where she played an eccentric elderly guy with a criminal past, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, where she played Orson, the father of David Cross’ character.
Yulin may also be familiar to viewers as NSA director Roger Stanton on 24 or as Watchers’ Council chief Quentin Travers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
His role as a wise guy with a girlfriend who begs Dr Crane (Kelsey Grammer) for assistance on Frasier earned him a 1996 guest-star Emmy nomination.
On November 5, 1937, Harris Yulin was born in Los Angeles. He was left on the stairs of an orphanage after being abandoned as a baby.
A Russian family gave Yulin his last name after adopting him at the age of four months and raising him in a Jewish home.
He claimed that his bar mitzvah was the “life-changing” event that gave him the idea to pursue acting. “I had a great time,” Yulin remarked.
“I found the opposite to be true, as most of my friends had expressed that they didn’t enjoy it and that it was awful to have to stand up there in front of all those people, saying whatever they were saying.”
Before moving to New York with the hopes of starting a career in theatre, Yulin studied acting at UCLA. He first appeared on stage in the James Saunders drama Next Time I’ll Sing to You in 1963, opposite James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons.
He later made appearances in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1964, Richard III in 1966, and King John in 1967. Yulin made her big-screen debut in the unconventional comedy/drama End of the Road in 1970, costarring with Stacy Keach.
He received praise the next year for costarring with Keach as Doc Holliday as Wyatt Earp in the Western Doc, which was revised. Yulin may also be familiar to viewers as NSA director Roger Stanton on 24 or as Watchers’ Council chief Quentin Travers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
His role as a wise guy with a girlfriend who begs Dr Crane (Kelsey Grammer) for assistance on Frasier earned him a 1996 guest-star Emmy nomination. On November 5, 1937, Harris Yulin was born in Los Angeles.
He was left on the stairs of an orphanage after being abandoned as a baby. A Russian family gave Yulin his last name after adopting him at the age of four months and raising him in a Jewish home. He claimed that his bar mitzvah was the “life-changing” event that gave him the idea to pursue acting.
“I had a great time,” Yulin remarked. “I found the opposite to be true, as most of my friends had expressed that they didn’t enjoy it and that it was awful to have to stand up there in front of all those people, saying whatever they were saying.”
Before moving to New York with the hopes of starting a career in theatre, Yulin studied acting at UCLA. He first appeared on stage in the James Saunders drama Next Time I’ll Sing to You in 1963, opposite James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons.
He later made appearances in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1964, Richard III in 1966, and King John in 1967. Yulin made her big-screen debut in the unconventional comedy/drama End of the Road in 1970, costarring with Stacy Keach.
He received praise the next year for costarring with Keach as Doc Holliday as Wyatt Earp in the Western Doc, which was revised.
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