Harris Yulin

Harris Yulin
Yulin in Bean (1997)
Born	(1937-11-05) November 5, 1937 (age 87) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1963–present
Spouses	Gwen Welles ​ ​ (m. 1975;died 1993)​ Kristen Lowman ​ (m. 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. ^[1]

Early life

Yulin was born on November 5, 1937, in Los Angeles, California. He was raised in a Jewish home.^{[ citation needed ]}

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. ^[2]

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 . ^[3] In 2010, he played Willy Loman in Death of A Salesman at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. ^[4]

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 . ^{[5] [6]} In 2010 he appeared in the AMC series Rubicon . In 2017 to 2018 he played in 12 episodes of Ozark. ^[7]

Yulin won the Lucille Lortel Award for directing The Trip to Bountiful at the Signature Theatre in New York with Lois Smith. ^[8]

Film critic Jim Emerson once quipped that Yulin "should be in every movie ever made". ^[9]

Personal life

Yulin dated Faye Dunaway from 1971 to 1972. ^[10] He was married to actress Gwen Welles until her death in 1993. His second marriage was to Kristen Lowman. ^[11]

Filmography

Film

Film appearances of Harris Yulin

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1970	Maidstone
	End of the Road	Joe Morgan
1971	Doc	Wyatt Earp
1972	The Legend of Hillbilly John	Zebulon Yandro
1974	The Midnight Man	Casey
	Watched!	Gordon Rankey
1975	Night Moves	Marty Heller
1976	St. Ives	Detective Carl Oller
1977	American Raspberry	Charles Conlin
1979	Steel	Eddie Cassidy
1983	Scarface	Chief Detective Mel Bernstein
1986	Short Fuse	Chief Harrigan
1987	Candy Mountain	Elmore Silk
	The Believers	Robert Calder
	Fatal Beauty	Conrad Kroll
1988	Bad Dreams	Dr. Berrisford
	Judgment in Berlin	Bruno Ristau
	Another Woman	Paul
1989	Ghostbusters II	Judge Stephen Wexler
1990	Narrow Margin	Leo Watts
1992	Final Analysis	Prosecuting Attorney	Uncredited
	There Goes the Neighborhood	Marvin Goes
1994	Clear and Present Danger	James Cutter
1995	Stuart Saves His Family	Dad
	The Baby-Sitters Club	Harold
	Cutthroat Island	Black Harry
1996	Looking for Richard	Himself / King Edward	Documentary
	Loch Ness	Dr. Bob Mercer
	Multiplicity	Dr. Leeds
1997	Murder at 1600	General Clark Tully
	Bean	George Grierson
1999	Cradle Will Rock	Chairman Martin Dies
	The Hurricane	Leon Friendman
2000	The Million Dollar Hotel	Stanley Goldkiss
	75 Degrees in July	Rick Anderson
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
2004	King of the Corner	Peter Hargrove
2005	Game 6	Peter Redmond
2006	The Treatment	Dr. Arnold Singer
	Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus	David Nemerov
2009	The People Speak	Himself
2010	My Soul to Take	Dr. Blake
2012	The Place Beyond the Pines	Judge Albert Cross
2014	A Short History of Decay	Bob Fisher
2015	The Family Fang	Hobart Waxman
2016	The American Side	Tom Soberin
	Norman	Joe Wilf
2017	The Sounding	Lionel
2018	All Square	Bob
	Wanderland	Charles
2024	Omni Loop	Professor Duselberg

Television

Television appearances of Harris Yulin

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1970	Neither Are We Enemies	Barabbas	Television film
1973	Incident at Vichy	Doctor Leduc
	The ABC Afternoon Playbreak	John Connors	Episode: "The Mask of Love"
1974	The American Short Story	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	George ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly	Television film
	The Greatest Gift	Hog Yancy
	The Missiles of October	Alexander Fomin
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	John Lazia	Television film
	S.W.A.T.	Paul Julian	Episode: "Vigilante"
	Police Woman	Benny Hummel	Episode: "The Hit"
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
1977	Wonder Woman	Mark Bremer	Episode: "Wonder Woman in Hollywood"
1978	When Every Day Was the Fourth of July	Prosecutor Joseph T. Antonelli	Television film
1978–1979	How the West Was Won	Deek Peasley	6 episodes
1979–1981	Meeting of Minds	Leonardo da Vinci/William Shakespeare	4 episodes
1984–1985	As the World Turns	Michael Christopher
1985	Robert Kennedy and His Times	Senator Joseph McCarthy	Episode: "#1.1"
1986	Cagney & Lacey	Ross O'Brien	Episode: "Revenge"
1989	Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy	Gen. Tyson	Television film
1990	Daughter of the Streets	John Franco
1990–1991	WIOU	Neal Frazier	16 episodes
1991	Face of a Strangers	David	Television film
1992	The Heart of Justice	Keneally
	Civil Wars	Nicolo Nicolai	Episode: "Dan Boat House"
1993	The Last Hit	Wilbur Bryant	Television film
	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Aamin Marritza	Episode: "Duet"
1994, 2008	Law & Order	Stanley Devon / Edward Manning	2 episodes
1995	Truman	General George Marshall	Television film
1996	Frasier	Jerome Belasco	Episode: "A Word to the Wiseguy"
	If These Walls Could Talk	Professor Speras	Segment "1974"
1997	Murphy Brown	The Jackal	Episode: "You Don't Know Jackal"
	La Femme Nikita	Gregory Kessler / Norris Gaines	Episode: "Gambit"
	Hostile Waters	Admiral Quinn	Television film
1997–2001	The American Experience	Narrator	Documentary; 2 episodes
1998	American Masters		Episode: "Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note"
1999	Vengeance Unlimited	Judge Harold Wabash	Episode: "Judgment"
1999–2002	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Quentin Travers	3 episodes
2000	The Virginian	Judge Henry	Television film
	The X-Files	Cardinal O'Fallon	Episode: "Hollywood A.D."
2002–2003	24	Roger Stanton	9 episodes
2003	Mister Sterling	Chairman Wilson	3 episodes
2005	Third Watch	Jonathan Turner	2 episodes
2007	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Thomas M. Grady Sr.	Episode: "Players"
	Entourage	Arthur Gatoff	Episode: "The Return of the King"
2008	Cashmere Mafia	Rafe Gropman	2 episodes
	Canterbury's Law	Chris Canterbury	Episode: "Trade-Off"
2009	Loving Leah	Rabbi Belsky	Television film
	Damages	Claire's father	Episode: "Uh Oh, Out Come the Skeletons"
2010	Rubicon	Tom Rhumor	2 episodes
	Madso's War	Jim O'Connor	Television film
2011	Pan Am	Henry Belsen	Episode: "Unscheduled Departure"
2011–2012	Nikita	Admiral Bruce Winnick	3 episodes
2013	Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight	William O. Douglas	Television film
2015	Forever	Eli Swier	Episode: "Hitler on the Half-Shell"
	The Blacklist	Sir Crispin Crandall	1 episode
2016	Veep	James Whitman	2 episodes
2016–2017	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Orson Snyder	5 episodes
2017–2018	Ozark	Buddy Dieker	12 episodes
2018–2019	Billions	Leonard Funt	3 episodes
2018	Murphy Brown	Professor Talbot	2 episodes
2019	For the People	Peter Daum	Episode: "Minimum Continuing Legal Education"
	Divorce	Gordon	4 episodes
2020	I Know This Much Is True	Father LaVie	1 episode
2022	FBI: Most Wanted	Grant Moore	Episode: "Karma"
2025–present	Daredevil: Born Again	TBA

References

1. "Awards for Harris Yulin". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
2. Hal Erickson (2016). "Harris Yulin biography". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
3. "Harris Yulin". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
4. Jones, Kenneth (July 15, 2010). "Harris Yulin Is Salesman's Willy Loman in Ireland; David Esbjornson Directs". Playbill.com. Archived from the original on September 20, 2013.
5. "The People Speak At MOMA. Special Sneak Preview Screening!". PeoplesHistory.us. Voices of a People’s History. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
6. "The People Speak (2009)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
7. "Ozark season 2 cast: Who plays Buddy in Ozark? Who is actor Harris Yulin?". express.co.uk. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
8. Brantley, Ben (December 5, 2005). "There's No Place Like an Imaginary Home". The New York Times.
9. Emerson, Jim (January 11, 2010). ""I Saw a Rohmer Film Once...": The Truth Behind the Night Moves Meme". RogerEbert.com.
10. "Daily News 31 May 1971, page 116".
11. Warner, Georgia (June 26, 2018). "Harris Yulin Does Nixon At Bay Street". Dan's Papers .  ...Yulin, who shares a home in Bridgehampton with his wife, actress Kristen Lowman, ...

External links

• Harris Yulin at IMDb
• Harris Yulin at the Internet Broadway Database
• Harris Yulin at the Internet Off-Broadway Database