RIP Harris Yulin

 

American actor Harris Yulin, the ever-present Emmy-nominated actor who appeared in such films as “Scarface”, “Clear and Present Danger” and “Training Day” and on television in ‘Frasier’, ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ and ‘Ozark’, died of cardiac arrest in New York City on June 10^th. He was 87. Harris Yulin was born in Los Angeles on Nov. 5, 1937. He was abandoned as an infant and left on the steps of an orphanage. Harris was adopted when he was 4 months old and raised in a Jewish household by a Russian family who gave him his last name. He said the “life-changing” inspiration to become an actor came during his bar mitzvah. Yulin attended UCLA to study acting before heading to New York to hopefully establish a career in the theater. He made it to the stage in 1963 opposite James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons in the James Saunders play “Next Time I’ll Sing to You”, then appeared in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in 1964, “Richard III” in 1966 and “King John” in 1967. In 1970, Yulin debuted on the big screen opposite Stacy Keach in the offbeat comedy/drama “End of the Road”. The following year, he earned accolades for playing Wyatt Earp in the revisionist Spaghetti western “Doc” alongside Keach as Doc Holliday and Faye Dunaway as Kate Elder.