Harris Yulin, a longtime theater actor whose appearances in movie and TV additionally proved memorable, died June tenth, 2025 on the age of 87. His most notable roles, out of 138 display credit, embody Nationwide Safety Advisor James Cutter in Clear and Current Hazard, corrupt detective Mel Bernstein in Scarface, and a 12-episode run as terminally unwell retiree Buddy Dieker within the Netflix crime drama Ozark.
Born November fifth, 1937, Yulin additionally made an impression as Choose Wexler in Ghostbusters II, the duplicitous Watcher Quentin Travers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and vaguely evil businessman Orson Snyder on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. He acquired an Emmy nomination for Visitor Actor in 1996 for his look within the Frasier episode “A Phrase to the Wiseguy,” and was included within the ensemble solid nomination on the SAG Awards when Ozark was nominated in 2019.
As a theater actor, Yulin first appeared on stage within the 1963 manufacturing of James Saunders’ Subsequent Time I’ll Sing to You, making his Broadway debut in 1980 in a revival of Watch on the Rhine. His different Broadway credit embody A Lesson From Aloes, The Diary of Anne Frank, and a 2001 manufacturing of Hedda Gabler.
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Previous to his dying, Yulin had simply been about to start out work on the MGM+ sequence American Basic, starring Kevin Kline and Laura Linney. He’s survived by his spouse Kristen Lowman.