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Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Harris Yulin, Actor in ‘Scarface,' ‘Training Day' and ‘Ozark,' Dies at 87
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, has died. He was 87. Yulin died Tuesday of cardiac arrest in New York City, his family and manager, Sue Leibman, announced. More from The Hollywood Reporter John Cusack, Nancy Sinatra, Ronnie Wood and More Celebs Pay Tribute to Brian Wilson Brian Wilson, Heart and Soul of The Beach Boys, Dies at 82 Chris Robinson, '12 O'Clock High,' 'General Hospital' and 'Bold and the Beautiful' Actor, Dies at 86 Although he never found a starring role that made him a household name, Yulin was a familiar face who worked constantly during a career that spanned more than 50 years. 'I'm not that high-profile,' he admitted in a 2010 interview with The Irish Times. 'I just do the next thing that comes along.' On Broadway, the character actor performed in 1980's Watch on the Rhine, 1992's The Visit, 1997's The Diary of Anne Frank, 1999's The Price and 2001's Hedda Gabler. He also helmed off-Broadway productions of Baba Goya in 1989, This Lime Tree Bower in 1999 and The Trip to Bountiful in 2005 as well as a 1970 production of Candida at Canada's Shaw Festival and a 1995 staging of Don Juan in Hell for London's Riverside Studios. Yulin stood out as the corrupt Miami detective who tries to extort money from Al Pacino's Tony Montana in Scarface (1983), as the manipulative national security adviser who matches wits with Harrison Ford's Jack Ryan in Clear and Present Danger (1994) and as the corrupt cop Rosselli in Antoine Fuqua's Training Day (2001). On the lighter side, he played the judge whose courtroom is decimated by spirits in Ghostbusters II (1989) and the goofy scientist who creates four versions of Michael Keaton's Doug Kinney in Multiplicity (1996). Yulin more recently appeared on two Netflix series as Orson, the father of David Cross' character, on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and as Buddy Dieker, an eccentric old man with a criminal past, on Ozark. Viewers might also recognize Yulin as Quentin Travers, head of the Watchers' Council, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer or as NSA director Roger Stanton on 24. He received his guest-star Emmy nomination in 1996 for playing a wiseguy with a girlfriend who presses Dr. Crane (Kelsey Grammer) for help on Frasier. 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. Yulin 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. 'I enjoyed it so much,' Yulin said. 'Most of my friends had said that they didn't enjoy it, that it was a horrible thing to have to be up there before all those people, saying whatever they were saying, and I found the opposite to be so.' 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 Western Doc alongside Keach as Doc Holliday. 'Its greatest strength is in the acting,' Roger Ebert wrote in his 1971 review of the film. 'Stacy Keach and Harris Yulin … have such a quiet way of projecting the willingness to do violence that you realize, after a while, that most Western actors are overactors.' 'There's a kind of private club of actors who have conspired to make Westerns: John Wayne, of course, and Lancaster, Eastwood, Douglas, Widmark, Mitchum and the rest. But they've made so many, many Westerns with each other, in different combinations, that they've established a kind of acting tone that you expect in ALL Westerns. Keach and Yulin are outside the club, are new to the Western and create Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp out of new cloth.' Yulin later portrayed J. Edgar Hoover in the 1974 CBS telefilm The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One and Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1985 CBS miniseries Robert Kennedy and His Times. And on the Steve Allen PBS series Meeting of Minds, he was Leonardo da Vinci in one 1979 episode and Shakespeare in another. Yulin played a news anchor on a struggling TV station on the 1990-91 CBS drama WIOU and through the years appeared on many other shows, including Kojak, Ironside, Cagney & Lacey, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, La Femme Nikita, The X-Files, Entourage, The Blacklist, Veep, Murphy Brown and Billions. Among Yulin's notable films were Night Moves (1975), St. Ives (1976), Another Woman (1988), Narrow Margin (1990), Murder at 1600 (1997), Bean (1997), Cradle Will Rock (1999), Chelsea Walls (2001), Rush Hour 2 (2001) and Norman (2016). Harris was prepping to start production this week with a role in the Michael Hoffman-directed MGM+ series American Classic, starring Kevin Kline and Laura Linney. Said Hoffman, 'Harris Yulin was very simply one of the greatest artists I have ever encountered.' Yulin was married to actress Gwen Welles (Nashville) from 1975 until her death in 1993 at age 42 from cancer. He married actress Kristen Lowman (Picket Fences) in September 2005, and she survives him, as does son-in-law Ted, nephew Martin and godchildren Marco and Lara. His also was predeceased by his daughter, actress Claire Lucido. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts Hollywood Stars Who Are One Award Away From an EGOT 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now
Time of India
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Scarface and Ozark star Harris Yulin passes away at 88
Harris Yulin, the legendary actor best known for playing tough and memorable roles in Scarface, Clear and Present Danger, and Ghostbusters II, has passed away at the age of 88. He died of cardiac arrest on June 12 in New York City. This was confirmed by his manager Sue Leibman. He had more than 140 film and TV credits to his name and was still active before his death. He was supposed to begin work soon on a new MGM+ series called American Classic, which would have reunited him with Ozark star Laura Linney and actor Kevin Kline. From Scarface to Ozark: A long journey in film and TV We're saddened to share the news of the passing of acclaimed actor Harris Yulin, who died June 10 in New York City at the age of Ghostbusters fans, Yulin is remembered for portraying the no-nonsense Judge Stephen Wexler, aka 'The Hammer,' in Ghostbusters his… Born in Los Angeles in 1937, Yulin started acting on stage before moving to the big screen. He became a familiar face in Hollywood and played strong, often shady characters. One of his most famous roles came in 1983 when he played Mel Bernstein, the corrupt cop in Scarface, opposite Al Pacino. Fans also remember his cameo as a judge in Ghostbusters II, and as a corrupt official in Clear and Present Danger. Yulin's talent stretched beyond films. He earned an Emmy nomination in 1996 for a guest role in Frasier. He also appeared in The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Damages, Entourage, and Ozark, where he played the unforgettable Buddy Dieker in Season 1. Director Michael Hoffman paid tribute, calling him 'one of the greatest artists' and saying his energy, humility, and presence shaped every project he touched. Yulin also had a strong stage career, appearing in Broadway and off-Broadway productions like Death of a Salesman and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He was respected both in front of the camera and on the stage. Harris Yulin is survived by his wife, actress Kristen Lowman. The industry says goodbye to a true icon whose face, voice, and acting talent made every scene better.
USA Today
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Harris Yulin, 'Scarface' and 'Ghostbusters II' actor, dies at 87: 'One of the greatest'
Harris Yulin, 'Scarface' and 'Ghostbusters II' actor, dies at 87: 'One of the greatest' Harris Yulin, the Emmy-nominated actor known for his wide-ranging roles in films such as "Scarface," "Ghostbusters II" and "Clear and Present Danger," has died. He was 87. Yulin died of cardiac arrest on June 10 in New York City, according to a press release shared by the actor's representative Sue Leibman. A memorial service is scheduled to be held at a later date. In the weeks leading up to his death, Yulin was preparing to start production on the Michael Hoffman-directed series "American Classic," which was slated to star Yulin alongside Kevin Kline and Laura Linney. "Harris Yulin was very simply one of the greatest artists I have ever encountered," Hoffman said in a statement. "His marriage of immense technique with an always fresh sense of discovery, gave his work an immediacy and vitality and purity I've experienced nowhere else. "And what he was as an actor, he was as a man, the grace, the humility, the generosity. All of us at'American Classic'have been blessed by our experience with him. He will always remain the beating heart of our show." A native of Los Angeles, Yulin got his showbiz start in the theater community of New York City, appearing in a 1963 production of the James Saunders play "Next Time I'll Sing to You." He made his Broadway debut in the '80s with the Lillian Hellman play "Watch on the Rhine" and went on to perform in other shows such as "The Price," "The Visit" and "Hedda Gabler." In 2004, Yulin starred in a Chicago production of "Finishing the Picture," the final play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller. The actor also directed a number of plays himself, including "The Glass Menagerie," "The Trip to Bountiful" and "This Lime Tree Bower." Yulin made his cinematic debut in 1970 with a starring role in the dark comedy "End of the Road." In the '80s, Yulin stretched his acting chops with roles in the gangster drama "Scarface" and adventure comedy "Ghostbusters II." The actor continued to switch things up in the '90s, appearing in the political thriller "Clear and Present Danger" and slapstick comedy "Bean." Brian Wilson dies: Beach Boys cofounder was 82 Yulin also lent his talents to the TV world with recurring roles in the series "Ozark," "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" and "Billions." He received a Primetime Emmy nomination in 1996 for his guest role on the sitcom "Frasier." "Yulin was part of the vanguard of a generation who cared passionately about the craft of acting," a statement from Yulin's death announcement read. "This deep, lifelong dedication led to extraordinary, resonant performances that were a gift to audiences, the actors he worked with, and the art of acting itself." Additionally, Yulin gave back to his fellow actors through teaching stints at The Juilliard School and Columbia University. 10 bingeable memoirs to check out: Celebrities tell all about aging, marriage and Beyoncé Yulin is survived by his wife Kristen Lowman, son-in-law Ted Mineo, nephew Martin Crane, and godchildren Marco and Lara Greenberg.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Harris Yulin, Emmy-Nominated Actor of ‘Scarface' and ‘Ozark,' Dies at 88
Harris Yulin, a prolific Emmy-nominated actor whose career spanned more than five decades across film, television, and stage, died Tuesday of cardiac arrest in New York City. He was 88. The character actor's many films include 'Scarface,' 'Clear and Present Danger, and 'Training Day.' He also played Buddy Dieker on the Netflix series 'Ozark' from 2017 to 2018. He guested on 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt' and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and was Emmy nominated in 1996 for a guest role on 'Frasier.' He made his film debut in 1970 in the black comedy 'End of the Road,' but landed his first featured role in Brian De Palma's 1983 'Scarface' as Mel Bernstein, a dirty narcotics cop. The actor was always memorable even in small parts, such as the New York judge in 'Ghostbusters II' who agrees to reverse murder charges for a pair of rampaging ghosts. Yulin was a well-respected theater actor, making New York debut in 1963 in 'Next Time I'll Sing to You' and first appeared on Broadway in the 1980s production of 'Watch on the Rhine.' He also starred in Broadway productions of 'The Diary of Anne Frank,' 'The Price,' and 'Hedda Gabler.' The actor was set to begin production on the MGM+ series 'American Classic,' opposite Kevin Kline and Laura Linney. Series co-creator Michael Hoffman told The Hollywood Reporter, 'Harris Yulin was very simply one of the greatest artists I have ever encountered.' Yulin was married to actress Gwen Welles Nashville from 1975 until her death in 1993 at age 42. He is survived by his second wife, actress Kristen Lowman, and his son-in-law Ted, nephew Martin and godchildren Marco and Lara. The post Harris Yulin, Emmy-Nominated Actor of 'Scarface' and 'Ozark,' Dies at 88 appeared first on TheWrap.
Forbes
04-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Digital Storage Can Assist Or Foil AI
Data Center In this article we will look at some resent announcerments on digital storage and its use in AI training and inference. But first, an example of digital storage technology used to save humanity. Data Storage Saves the Day Digital archiving startup SPhotonix's 5D memory crystal was an important element in the plot of the latest Mission Impossible movie. The 360TB memory crystal was used to stop a rogue AI from destroying the world. In practice, SPhotonix stores data using a FemtoEtch nano-etching technology on a 5-inch glass substrate. Note that I am an advisor for SPhotonix. SPhotonix 5D Memory Cystal Digital storage technologies have been used in many movies and TV shows over the years, such as the StorageTek Tape library used in the 1994 Film 'Clear and Present Danger.' Hybrid AI Data Centers In practice data centers are generally using SSDs as primary storage in data centers, including for AI training applications. SSDs provide fast storage for refreshing data on the high bandwidth memory located close to the GPUs that directly support data processing. However, the cost for storing data on SSDs in data centers is about 6X higher than storing it on HDDs. This leads data centers to use HDDs for storing colder but useful data in a hierarchical storage environment. Data is moved back and forth from various storage technologies to optimize the balance of cost versus performance. Ultimately archived information in data centers that is not frequently used is kept on magnetic tape cartridges or optical storage. Vdura, formerly veteran storage company, Panasas, recently announced a white paper on digital storage for AI workloads and announced changes in their hybrid SSD and HDD storage offering to support HPC and AI workloads. The company is now offering QLC NAND flash SSDs combined with high-capacity HDDs with their global namespace parallel file system combined with object storage, offering multi-level erasure coding and fast key value storage. The image below shows the layout of this hybrid SSD and HDD storage system. Vdura Global Namespace Storage The Vdura Data Platform V11.2 includes a preview of V-ScaleFlow that enables data movement across QLC flash and high-capacity hard drives. This allows resource utilization, maximizes system throughput and provides efficient AI-scale workloads. In particular the company is using Phison Pascari 128TB QLC NVMe SSD with 30+TB HDDs to reduce flash capacity requirements by over 50% and lowing power consumption. Overall total cost of ownership is said to be reduced by up to 60%. The Vdura white paper goes into details on data storage and memory utilization in an AI application. The figure below shows an AI data pipeline which should have the storage system enable minimum GPU downtime. AI Data Pipeline The table below goes into detail on read, write, performance and data size requirements for various elements in an AI workload. These various elements can require from GBs to PBs of digital storage with various performance requirements. This favors a combination of storage technologies to support different elements in this workload. Element Characteristics in an AI Workflow The below image shows a sample storage node that can provide all-flash or hybrid SSD and HDD storage to support AI and HPC workloads with a global namespace and a common control and data plane. Vdura Storage Node Digital storage technology saved the world from a rogue AI in the latest Mission Impossible Movie. Combining SSDs and HDDs can enable modern AI workloads that optimize cost and performance.
