Harris Yulin
{{Short description|American actor (born 1937)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Harris Yulin
| image = Harris Yulin.png
| caption = Yulin in Bean (1997)
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1937|11|5}}
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1963–present
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Gwen Welles|1975|1993|end=d.}}
- {{marriage|Kristen Lowman|2005}}
}}
}}
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), Bean (1997), The Hurricane (1999), Training Day (2001), and Frasier which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1996.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950867/awards?ref_=nm_ql_2|title=Awards for Harris Yulin|access-date=27 October 2020|website=Internet Movie Database}}
Early life
Yulin was born on November 5, 1937, in Los Angeles, California.
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/78288/Harris-Yulin/biography |title=Harris Yulin biography |access-date=June 15, 2017|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305141149/https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/78288/Harris-Yulin/biography |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Hal Erickson |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2016 |archive-date=March 5, 2016}}
His Broadway debut came in the 1980s Watch on the Rhine. He returned to Broadway multiple times in productions of The Visit, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Price, and Hedda Gabler.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=65965|title=Harris Yulin|access-date=June 15, 2017|website=Internet Broadway Database}} In 2010, he played Willy Loman in Death of A Salesman at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, Ireland.{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/141182-Harris-Yulin-Is-Salesmans-Willy-Loman-in-Ireland-David-Esbjornson-Directs|title=Harris Yulin Is Salesman's Willy Loman in Ireland; David Esbjornson Directs|date=July 15, 2010|website=Playbill.com|last=Jones|first=Kenneth|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920205333/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/141182-Harris-Yulin-Is-Salesmans-Willy-Loman-in-Ireland-David-Esbjornson-Directs|archive-date=September 20, 2013}}
His first film role was his portrayal of Wyatt Earp in Doc (1971) starring Stacy Keach as Doc Holliday. He appeared in the Brian De Palma film Scarface (1983) as corrupt cop Mel Bernstein. In 1989, he played the role of Judge Stephen Wexler in Ghostbusters II. He portrayed a corrupt national security advisor in the 1994 Harrison Ford thriller Clear and Present Danger. In 1997, he played the role of George Grierson in Bean. He appeared as Leon Friedman, a lawyer of Rubin Carter, in the 1999 film, The Hurricane. In 2001, he portrayed Secret Service Agent Sterling in Rush Hour 2.
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.peopleshistory.us/events/moma|title=The People Speak At MOMA. Special Sneak Preview Screening!| website=PeoplesHistory.us|publisher=Voices of a People’s History|access-date=March 19, 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156524/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast|title=The People Speak (2009)|website=Internet Movie Database|access-date=March 19, 2015}} In 2010 he appeared in the AMC series Rubicon. In 2017 to 2018 he played in 12 episodes of Ozark.{{cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1012005/Ozark-season-2-cast-who-plays-Buddy-actor-Harris-Yulin-Netflix
|title=Ozark season 2 cast: Who plays Buddy in Ozark? Who is actor Harris Yulin?|website=express.co.uk|access-date=March 30, 2020}}
Yulin won the Lucille Lortel Award for directing The Trip to Bountiful at the Signature Theatre in New York with Lois Smith.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/05/theater/reviews/05boun.html|title=There's No Place Like an Imaginary Home|date=December 5, 2005|last=Brantley|first=Ben|work=The New York Times}}
Film critic Jim Emerson once quipped that Yulin "should be in every movie ever made".{{Cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/scanners/i-saw-a-rohmer-film-once-the-truth-behind-the-night-moves-meme|title="I Saw a Rohmer Film Once...": The Truth Behind the Night Moves Meme|date=January 11, 2010|last=Emerson|first=Jim|work=RogerEbert.com}}
Personal life
Yulin dated Faye Dunaway from 1971 to 1972.{{cite web|url=https://nydailynews.newspapers.com/image/464053604/?terms=faye%20dunaway%20yulin&match=1 | title=Daily News 31 May 1971, page 116 }} He was married to actress Gwen Welles until her death in 1993. His second marriage was to Kristen Lowman.{{cite web |url=https://www.danspapers.com/2018/06/harris-yulin-does-nixon-at-bay-street/ |title=Harris Yulin Does Nixon At Bay Street |last=Warner |first=Georgia |date=June 26, 2018 |website=Dan's Papers |quote={{nbsp}}...Yulin, who shares a home in Bridgehampton with his wife, actress Kristen Lowman,{{nbsp}}...}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Film appearances of Harris Yulin !scope="col"| Year !scope="col"| Title !scope="col"| Role !scope="col" class="unsortable"| Notes |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1970
| | |
|---|
| End of the Road
| Joe Morgan | |
| scope="row"| 1971
| Doc | |
| scope="row"| 1972
| The Legend of Hillbilly John | Zebulon Yandro | |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1974
| Casey | |
| Watched!
| Gordon Rankey | |
| scope="row"| 1975
| Marty Heller | |
| scope="row"| 1976
| St. Ives | Detective Carl Oller | |
| scope="row"| 1977
| American Raspberry | Charles Conlin | |
| scope="row"| 1979
| Steel | Eddie Cassidy | |
| scope="row"| 1983
| Scarface | Chief Detective Mel Bernstein | |
| scope="row"| 1986
| Chief Harrigan | |
| scope="row" rowspan="3" | 1987
| Elmore Silk | |
| The Believers
| Robert Calder | |
| Fatal Beauty
| Conrad Kroll | |
| scope="row" rowspan="3" | 1988
| Dr. Berrisford | |
| Judgment in Berlin
| Bruno Ristau | |
| Another Woman
| Paul | |
| scope="row"| 1989
| Judge Stephen Wexler | |
| scope="row"| 1990
| Leo Watts | |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1992
| Prosecuting Attorney |
| There Goes the Neighborhood
| Marvin Goes | |
| scope="row"| 1994
| James Cutter | |
| scope="row" rowspan="3" | 1995
| Dad | |
| The Baby-Sitters Club
| Harold | |
| Cutthroat Island
| Black Harry | |
| scope="row" rowspan="3" | 1996
| Himself / King Edward |
| Loch Ness
| Dr. Bob Mercer | |
| Multiplicity
| Dr. Leeds | |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1997
| General Clark Tully | |
| Bean
| George Grierson | |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1999
| Chairman Martin Dies | |
| The Hurricane
| Leon Friendman | |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2000
| Stanley Goldkiss | |
| 75 Degrees in July
| Rick Anderson | |
| scope="row" rowspan="6" | 2001
| Perfume | Phillip | |
| Rush Hour 2
| U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Sterling | |
| American Outlaws
| Thaddeus Rains, President Rock Northern Rail Road | |
| Training Day
| Detective Doug Roselli | |
| Chelsea Walls
| Bud's Editor | |
| The Emperor's Club
| Senator Bell | |
| scope="row"| 2004
| Peter Hargrove | |
| scope="row"| 2005
| Game 6 | Peter Redmond | |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2006
| Dr. Arnold Singer | |
| Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
| David Nemerov | |
| scope="row"| 2009
| Himself | |
| scope="row"| 2010
| Dr. Blake | |
| scope="row"| 2012
| Judge Albert Cross | |
| scope="row"| 2014
| Bob Fisher | |
| scope="row"| 2015
| Hobart Waxman | |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2016
| Tom Soberin | |
| Norman
| Joe Wilf | |
| scope="row"| 2017
| Lionel | |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2018
| Bob | |
| Wanderland
| Charles | |
| scope="row"| 2024
| Professor Duselberg | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Television appearances of Harris Yulin !scope="col"| Year !scope="col"| Title !scope="col"| Role !scope="col" class="unsortable"| Notes |
| scope="row"| 1970
| Barabbas | rowspan="2" | Television film |
|---|
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1973
| Doctor Leduc |
| The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
| John Connors | Episode: "The Mask of Love" |
| scope="row" rowspan="6" | 1974
| Parker Adderson | Episode: "Parker Adderson, Philosopher" |
| Kojak
| Bert Podis | Episode: "Die Before They Wake" |
| Barnaby Jones
| Porter Long | Episode: "Conspiracy of Terror" |
| Melvin Purvis: G-Man
| rowspan="3" | Television film |
| The Greatest Gift
| Hog Yancy |
| The Missiles of October |
| scope="row" rowspan="8" | 1975
| Ironside | Sam North | Episode: "A Matter of Life of Death" |
| The Trial of Chaplain Jensen
| Lieutenant Kastner | Television film |
| Little House on the Prairie
| John Stewart | Episode: "Child of Pain" |
| Caribe
| Peter Brady | Episode: "The Assassin" |
| Baretta
| Detective Grissom | Episode: "The Glory Game" |
| The Kansas City Massacre
| Television film |
| S.W.A.T.
| Paul Julian | Episode: "Vigilante" |
| Police Woman
| Benny Hummel | Episode: "The Hit" |
| scope="row" rowspan="4" | 1976
| Dynasty | John Blackwood | Television film |
| Insight
| Bradley Knight | Episode: "His Feet Don't Stink" |
| Most Wanted
| Billy Wilcox | Episode: "The Skykiller" |
| Victory at Entebbe
| General Dan Shomron | Television film |
| scope="row"| 1977
| Mark Bremer | Episode: "Wonder Woman in Hollywood" |
| scope="row"| 1978
| When Every Day Was the Fourth of July | Prosecutor Joseph T. Antonelli | Television film |
| scope="row"| 1978–1979
| Deek Peasley | 6 episodes |
| scope="row"| 1979–1981
| Leonardo da Vinci/William Shakespeare | 4 episodes |
| scope="row"| 1984–1985
| Michael Christopher | |
| scope="row"| 1985
| Robert Kennedy and His Times | Episode: "#1.1" |
| scope="row"| 1986
| Ross O'Brien | Episode: "Revenge" |
| scope="row"| 1989
| Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy | Gen. Tyson | rowspan="2" | Television film |
| scope="row"| 1990
| Daughter of the Streets | John Franco |
| scope="row"| 1990–1991
| WIOU | Neal Frazier | 16 episodes |
| scope="row"| 1991
| Face of a Strangers | David | rowspan="2"| Television film |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1992
| Keneally |
| Civil Wars
| Nicolo Nicolai | Episode: "Dan Boat House" |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1993
| The Last Hit | Wilbur Bryant | Television film |
| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
| Aamin Marritza | Episode: "Duet" |
| scope="row"| 1994, 2008
| Stanley Devon / Edward Manning | 2 episodes |
| scope="row"| 1995
| Truman | Television film |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1996
| Frasier | Jerome Belasco | Episode: "A Word to the Wiseguy" |
| If These Walls Could Talk
| Professor Speras | Segment "1974" |
| scope="row" rowspan="3" | 1997
| The Jackal | Episode: "You Don't Know Jackal" |
| La Femme Nikita
| Gregory Kessler / Norris Gaines | Episode: "Gambit" |
| Hostile Waters
| Admiral Quinn | Television film |
| scope="row"| 1997–2001
| rowspan="2" | Narrator | Documentary; 2 episodes |
| scope="row"| 1998
| Episode: "Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note" |
| scope="row"| 1999
| Judge Harold Wabash | Episode: "Judgment" |
| scope="row"| 1999–2002
| Quentin Travers | 3 episodes |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2000
| The Virginian | Judge Henry | Television film |
| The X-Files
| Cardinal O'Fallon | Episode: "Hollywood A.D." |
| scope="row"| 2002–2003
| 24 | Roger Stanton | 9 episodes |
| scope="row"| 2003
| Chairman Wilson | 3 episodes |
| scope="row"| 2005
| Jonathan Turner | 2 episodes |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2007
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Thomas M. Grady Sr. | Episode: "Players" |
| Entourage
| Arthur Gatoff | Episode: "The Return of the King" |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2008
| Rafe Gropman | 2 episodes |
| Canterbury's Law
| Chris Canterbury | Episode: "Trade-Off" |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2009
| Rabbi Belsky | Television film |
| Damages
| Claire's father | Episode: "Uh Oh, Out Come the Skeletons" |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2010
| Rubicon | Tom Rhumor | 2 episodes |
| Madso's War
| Jim O'Connor | rowspan="1" | Television film |
| scope="row"| 2011
| Pan Am | Henry Belsen | Episode: "Unscheduled Departure" |
| scope="row"| 2011–2012
| Nikita | Admiral Bruce Winnick | 3 episodes |
| scope="row"| 2013
| Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | Television film |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2015
| Forever | Eli Swier | Episode: "Hitler on the Half-Shell" |
| The Blacklist
| Sir Crispin Crandall | 1 episode |
| scope="row"| 2016
| Veep | James Whitman | 2 episodes |
| scope="row"| 2016–2017
| Orson Snyder | 5 episodes |
| scope="row"| 2017–2018
| Ozark | Buddy Dieker | 12 episodes |
| scope="row"| 2018–2019
| Billions | Leonard Funt | 3 episodes |
| scope="row"| 2018
| Professor Talbot | 2 episodes |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2019
| Peter Daum | Episode: "Minimum Continuing Legal Education" |
| Divorce
| Gordon | 4 episodes |
| scope="row"| 2020
| Father LaVie | 1 episode |
| scope="row"| 2022
| Grant Moore | Episode: "Karma" |
References
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External links
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