Harris Yulin, the veteran stage of the stage and the screen whose career included significantly “Scarface” roles, “training day” and “Ghostbusters II”, has died. He was 87 years old.
Yulin died of cardiac arrest on New York on Tuesday, his manager Sue Leibman and his family confirmed in a statement to The Times on Thursday. He was “part of the avant -garde of a generation that was passionately concerned about the trade of acting: this deep dedication of a lifetime led to extraordinary and resonant actions that were a gift for the public, the actors with whom he worked and the art of acting on himself,” said the statement, who also remembered the native of Los Angeles as an “Avorña and the Birra and the couple of the sea.”
Born on November 5, 1937, Yulin enjoyed a varied screen performance race that covered several decades and generated more than 100 credits, according to IMDB. In the cinema he portrayed a corrupt official of Los Angeles in Cahohots with the Denzel Washington immoral drug dealer in the “Training Day”, a derogatory judge who supervises the judicial case against supernatural detectives in “Ghostbusters II” and a detective interested in doing business with Tony Montana de Al Pacino in “Scarface”.
Yulin told numerous television series among his credits, including “Wiou”, “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”, “24”, “Nikita” and “Veep”. In the last decade of his life, he also appeared in the Netflix series “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and “Ozark”. In 1996 he obtained an Emmy nomination during the stellar schedule for the guest actor in a comedy for his appearance as Chief of Crime Jerome Belasco in the successful NBC series “Fraser”.
Beyond television and cinema, Yulin followed a prolific race on stage with Broadway productions by “Hedda Gaber”, “The Price”, “The Visit” and “Watch on the Rhine” and off-broadway of “Hamlet”, “Arts and Leisure” and “Rain Dance”. Throughout his career, Yulin brought his talents to the Court Theater and the Goodman Theater in Chicago, the Gate Theater in Dublin and the Bay Street theater in New York. Yulin was also a stage director who supervised the productions of several works, including “The Glass Menagerie”, “The Trip to Bountify”, “This Lime Tree Bower”, “Men's Lives” and “The man who came to dinner”.
Yule was also an instructor who taught in Juilliard, University of Columbia and HB Studio. He continued working on new projects until his death, including the MGM+ “American Classic” series, starring Kevin Kline, Laura Linney and Jon Tenney. Deadline reported that the series began production on the east coast and Yulin was preparing to start shooting its role this week. Your role will be recast.
The cooker and executive producer of the series Michael Hoffman cried Yulin in a statement: “[He] It was simply one of the best artists I've found. ”
Hoffman, who worked with Yulin in the 2005 film “Game 6”, added: “His marriage of immense technique with a new sense of discovery, gave his work an immediacy, vitality and purity that I have not experienced anywhere else,” said Hoffman. “And what was as an actor, was as a man, grace, humility, generosity. All in the 'American classic' have been blessed by our experience with him. It will always continue to be the heartbeat of our program.”
Yulin is survived by his wife Kristen Lowman, the son -in -law Mineo, nephew Martin Crane and the godchildren Marco and Lara Greenberg. His daughter Claire looked preceded in death. A monument will be carried out on a later date.
