Actor Harris Yulin dies at 87

Actor Harris Yulin, familiar from film, TV and stage appearances, died June 10 from cardiac arrest at 87.

Los Angeles native Yulin made his way to New York City in 1963 for his stage debut in Next Time I'll Sing to You. His Broadway debut would have to wait until 1980 in a revival of Watch on the Rhine. Other Broadway shows include The Visit, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Price and a 2001 revival of Hedda Gabler, which was his last Broadway show. He also appeared Off-Broadway and in regional productions with credits including Long Day's Journey Into Night, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Death of a Salesman, Finishing the Picture and Frost Nixon. Yulin also directed productions of Men's Lives, The Glass Menagerie, The Tip to Bountiful, This Lime Tree Bower and The Man Who Came to Dinner. He had been working on a project with Stacy Keach before he died. Yulin also directed and taught at Juilliard for eight years, and at The Graduate School of the Arts at Columbia University and at HB Studios in Manhattan.

Yulin made his film debut in 1970's End of the Road, also with Stacy Keach, and his TV debut came the same year in TV movie Neither Are We Enemies, with Ed Begley Jr. Other notable film credits include The Legend of Hillbilly John, Night Moves, St. Ives, Steel, Scarface, The Believers, Fatal Beauty, Bad Dreams, Ghostbusters II, Narrow Margin, Final Analysis, Clear and Present Danger, Stuart Saves His Family, The Baby-Sitters Club, Cutthroat Island, Multiplicity, Murder at 1600, Bean, Cradle Will Rock, The Hurricane, Perfume, Rush Hour 2, American Outlaws, Training Day, The Emperor's Club, The Treatment, My Soul to Take, The Place Beyond the Pines, and 2024's Omni Loop, his last film.

TV movie credits include Incident at Vichy, Melvin Purvis: G-Man, The Greatest Gift, The Missiles of October, The Trial of Chaplain Jensen, The Kansas City Massacre, Dynasty, Victory at Entebbe, When Every Day Was the Fourth of July, The Night Rider, The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther, The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang, Robert Kennedy and His Times, Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8, Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airline Tragedy, Daughter of the Streets, Face of a Stranger, The Heart of Justice, The Last Hit, Truman, If These Walls Could Talk, The Virginian, Loving Leah, and I Know This Much Is True.

Of Yulin's TV credits, he only had one series regular role on 1990-1991 drama WIOU, with John Shea and Helen Shaver, and he had a major recurring role on the first two seasons of Netflix's Ozark. He also recurred on Season 2 of 24, and on Season 3 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt following a guest appearance on the Season 2 finale. Other notable TV credits include Kojak, Barnaby Jones, Little House on the Prairie, Baretta, S.W.A.T., Police Woman, Ironside, Most Wanted, Wonder Woman, How the West Was Won, As the World Turns, Cagney & Lacey, Civil Wars, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Frasier, La Femme Nikita, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mister Sterling, Third Watch, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Entourage, Cashmere Mafia, Canterbury's Law, Law & Order, Damages, Rubicon, Pan Am, Nikita, Forever, The Blacklist, Veep, Murphy Brown, For the People, Billions, Divorce, and FBI: Most Wanted. At the time of his death, Yulin was preparing to appear on the upcoming MGM+ series American Classic, starring Kevin Kline and Laura Linney, which was due to begin production this week. The project would have reunited him with director Michael Hoffman, who had directed Yulin in 2005's Game 6.

During his career, Yulin had received a 2019 Screen Actors Guild Award nomination as part of the Ozark ensemble, a 1997 CableACE nomination for Guest Actor in a Dramatic Special or Series (La Femme Nikita), and a 1996 Emmy nomination for his guest role on Frasier.

Yulin, whose real last name was Goldberg, is survived by wife Kristen Lowman, son-in-law Ted Mineo, nephew Martin Crane, and godchildren Marco and Lara Greenberg. He was predeceased by his daughter, actress Claire Lucido. A memorial will be held at a later date.