Harris Yulin (born November 5, 1937 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor who has appeared in dozens of Hollywood films and television movies. He first emerged in the Brian De Palma film Scarface (1983) as a crooked "cop" who double-crosses Al Pacino's character.
Since then, Yulin has appeared in many popular films, including Ghostbusters II, Final Analysis, and Clear and Present Danger. His more recent projects include Rush Hour 2 and Training Day.
He appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in the acclaimed episode "Duet". During the second season of 24 he played National Security Advisor Roger Stanton. He was nominated for a 1996 Emmy for his portrayal of crime boss Jerome Belasco in the television series Frasier. In the series Buffy The Vampire Slayer he played Quentin Travers, head of the Watchers' Council.
He currently lives with his wife Kristen Lowman, and step-daughter Claire Lucido.
Yulin was married to Gwen Welles, who appeared in Nashville.
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (also known simply as Fur) is a 2006 film starring Nicole Kidman as iconic American photographer Diane Arbus, who was known for her strange, disturbing images. She committed suicide in 1971.
For the film, director Steven Shainberg, best known for his kinky indie Secretary, reunited with its screenwriter, Erin Cressida Wilson, who used Patricia Bosworth's book Diane Arbus: A Biography as a source. As its name implies, the film is a fictional account rather than an accurate biography. The cinematic Arbus is torn between an affair with overly hirsute neighbor Lionel (Robert Downey, Jr.) and a more conventional life with doting, domestic husband Allan (Ty Burrell) as she tries to find her muse amidst the fringe dwellers of society.
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The Emperor's Club is a 2002 film that tells the story of a prep school teacher and his students. Based on Ethan Canin's short story "The Palace Thief," the film is directed by Michael Hoffman and stars Kevin Kline. The movie is set at a fictional boy's prep school, St. Benedict's Academy, which is supposedly based on Phillips Exeter Academy, an American prep school located in Exeter, NH. The movie was filmed at Emma Willard School in Troy, NY. Kevin Kline is also said to have traveled to Regis High School in Manhattan to get further character preparation for his role.
William Hundert is a passionate and principled classics professor who is enthusiastic about the start of the school year. His class turns out to be a strict yet inspiring lesson for the new students arriving at St. Benedict's Academy. It is here we are introduced to the party-minded Louis Masoudi, the introverted Martin Blythe, and the studious Deepak Mehta, all of whom are incredibly intelligent. He inspires all of...,
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Training Day is an Academy Award-winning 2001 film starring Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris, a corrupt Los Angeles police officer, and Ethan Hawke as Jake Hoyt, his new green recruit looking to become a part of Harris' elite narcotics unit. The entire movie takes place over a single, intense 24-hour period in Los Angeles that forever changes the lives of both officers. The movie was written by David Ayer and directed by Antoine Fuqua, both of whom grew up in gang neighborhoods.Fuqua wanted Training Day to look as authentic as possible, and he shot on location in some of the most infamous neighborhoods of Los Angeles, California. He even obtained permission from gangs to shoot in the notoriously dangerous Imperial Courts housing project. His crew ended up receiving a warm welcome from local residents, who were all happy that a movie was being made that showed some of the regular life that exists in their world. When Fuqua wasn't able to shoot a scene directly on location, he...,
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American Outlaws is a 2001 Western film directed by Les Mayfield. It starred Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, and Ali Larter.
Very losely based on real facts.
The southern army trying to track down the Yankee army during the civil war. The south is ambushed, but thanks to the sharp-shooting of Frank James (Gabriel Macht) and the distracting and at the same time clever antics of Jesse James (Colin Farrell), the south manages to pull through. The James brothers, along with their war buddies, the Younger brothers, congratulate themselves and then head on to kill off more Yanks.
They are surprised to find their army has pulled out when there are still "a lot of Yankees to kill". That's when they are told that General Lee surrendered yesterday, their side has lost and the war is over. They all quickly decide that the only thing to do then, is to head back home to their friends, families, and farms.
Things have changed when they get back to Missouri. First, the old childhood friend of Jesse James...,
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Rush Hour 2 is a 2001 martial arts/buddy cop film starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. It is the sequel to the movie Rush Hour (1998). It grossed US$347,325,802 at the world-wide box-office, becoming the 4th top grossing film of 2001.
Taglines:The film begins with Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) and Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) traveling to Hong Kong on a vacation. Carter is interested in having a good time; however, soon after they arrive, a bomb explodes in the American Embassy. Inspector Lee is assigned to the case, which becomes personal when it is discovered that the man behind it is Ricky Tan, his father's former partner. Tan, who played an instrumental role in his father's death, is now the leader of the Triads, the most deadly gang in all of China.
The United States Secret Service, led by Agent Sterling (Harris Yulin), and the Hong Kong Police Force soon get into a fight over the jurisdiction of the case. Lee learns that Ricky Tan will be attending a dinner...,
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The Hurricane is a 1999 film starring Denzel Washington. It purports to be the true story of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, whose conviction for triple murder was set aside after he had spent almost twenty years in prison, but was widely criticized for inaccuracies in its portrayal.The script was adapted by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon from the books Lazarus and the Hurricane by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton and The 16th Round by Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter. The film was directed by Norman Jewison.The film narrates the life of middleweight boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, concentrating on the period between 1966 and 1985. It describes his fight against the conviction for triple murder and how he copes with nearly twenty years in prison. In a parallel plot, an underprivileged youth from Brooklyn becomes interested in Carter's destiny after reading Carter's autobiography, and convinces his Canadian friends to engage themselves in the case. The story culminates with the Carter team's...,
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Bean (also known as Mr. Bean: The Movie or Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie) is a 1997 feature film based on the television series Mr. Bean. It stars Rowan Atkinson in the title role and Peter MacNicol. It was directed by Mel Smith, with whom Atkinson had previously worked on Not the Nine O'Clock News. The film re-used many of the ideas from the original television series, although it was set mainly in California.TaglinesMr. Bean, a hopeless caretaker at the "Royal National Gallery", London is sent by his employers, who wish to get rid of him (for sleeping on the job), to America under the pseudonym of "Dr. Bean" to oversee the transfer of Whistler's Mother to a Los Angeles art gallery. Whilst on the plane, Bean entertains an air-sick boy, although unfortunately uses the wrong bag (a slightly more graphic version of a joke used in Mr. Bean Rides Again). Once at the airport, he is surprised to see policemen with guns and pretends he himself has one, which leads to him being swiftly...
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Multiplicity is a 1996 film starring Michael Keaton and Andie MacDowell. The film was produced and directed by Harold Ramis.
Doug Kinney (Michael Keaton) finds his time stretched to the limit between his wife, career and family, until he meets a scientist who offers to clone him. Of course, one clone ends up not being enough and soon he has an attic full of them - all played by Keaton and each with a different personality - while his unsuspecting wife (Laura Kinney, played by Andie MacDowell) wonders what on earth is going on.
In the movie Keaton's character, Doug Kinney, is a stressed-out family man who meets up with a scientist who has developed a successful means for cloning humans. The scientist allows Doug to make a clone of himself that can take over for him at work, while he tries to spend some quality time with his family. The clone, called "Two" (while having all the knowledge, memory and experience of Doug), turns out to be overly macho and easily irritated, suffering a...,
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Clear and Present Danger is a 1994 film directed by Phillip Noyce, based on the book of the same name by Tom Clancy.
In the novel, Jack Ryan is thrown into the position of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Acting Deputy Director and discovers that he is being kept in the dark by his colleagues who are conducting a covert war against drug lords in Colombia.
The movie opens with the United States Coast Guard stopping a suspicious yacht, finding that the owner and his family had been murdered by several men still operating the craft. The murdered man happens to have been a close friend of President of the United States, Bennett. President Bennett finds out that the man was murdered because of his ties to the Cali Cartel, having skimmed over $600 million from the Cartel for his own use. In his anger, the President tells James Cutter, his National Security Advisor, that the Colombian drug cartels represent "a clear and present danger" to the U.S., indirectly giving Cutter unofficial...,
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Ghostbusters II is the 1989 sequel to Ghostbusters (1984). The sci-fi comedy film is about the further adventures of a group of parapsychologists and their organization which combats paranormal activities ("ghostbusting"). The sequel had what was, at the time, the biggest three-day opening weekend gross in history ($29,472,894), a record that was broken precisely one week later by Batman ($40,505,884).
After the events of Ghostbusters, the company was sued by several city and state agencies for destroying the top three floors of 55 Central Park West, among other instances of property damage. As a result, (c. 1987) a judge issued an injunction, banning them from operating as paranormal investigators and eliminators--effectively putting the Ghostbusters out of business.
Ray Stantz now owns an occult book shop in Manhattan, and along with Winston Zeddemore puts on special appearances at children's birthday parties. Peter Venkman has his own TV series, World of the Psychic, in which he...,
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Bad Dreams is a 1988 horror film directed by Andrew Fleming.It is the mid-70's. A sinister cult called Unity Fields commits mass suicide in a horrific manner - by fire - at the behest of its psychopathic leader, Harris (Richard Lynch). Only one young woman named Cynthia (Jennifer Rubin) survives to tell the tale. Now, 13 years later, Cynthia is having grim reminders of the mass-suicide, as people around her begin to die one at a time. Cynthia finds out quickly that the ghost of Harris is back...to claim his 'love child'....,
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The Believers, a horror/neo-noir film directed by John Schlesinger was released in 1987. Martin Sheen, Robert Loggia and Helen Shaver are among the actors in this movie.After the accidental death of his wife by electrocution, Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) moves to New York City, where a rash of brutal, ritualistic child murders, supposedly committed by members of a Hispanic cult practicing a malevolent version of Santeria have been confounding the NYPD. Things take a turn for the worse when the cult targets Jamison's son Chris (Harley Cross)....,
Fatal Beauty is a 1987 comedy-drama film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Sam Elliott, directed by Tom Holland. The screenplay was written by Hilary Henkin and Dean Riesner. The original music score was composed by Harold Faltermeyer. The film was marketed with the tagline "An earthquake is about to hit L.A. It's called Detective Rita Rizzoli."
Detective Rita Rizzoli (Goldberg) is a crusading narcotics police officer in Los Angeles assigned to track down some killer cocaine. She poses as a prostitute and is soon hot after two small-time hoods who murder their way in hopes of becoming kingpins. Right from the beginning, Mike Marshak (Elliott), a security agent working for Rizzoli's prime suspect, takes a special interest in Rizzoli, at first for his boss, then later in the detective, as a romance develops. Their love scene was controversially abbreviated in the North American release, due to racism in that country.
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Scarface is a 1983 film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino as Antonio "Tony" Montana. A loose remake of the 1932 Howard Hawks gangster film of the same title, it tells the story of a fictional Cuban refugee who comes to Florida in 1980 as a result of the Mariel Boatlift.
Tony becomes a gangster against the backdrop of the 1980s cocaine boom. The film chronicles his rise to the top of Miami's criminal underworld and subsequent downfall.
Although initially released to little fanfare, and the target of harsh reviews, Scarface gradually developed a significant cult following, especially within the world of hip-hop, and retroactive critical acclaim.
The film is dedicated to Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht, who were the writers of the original Scarface. This movie is loosely based on the Mariel Boatlift where thousands of Cuban refugees entered the United States after years of communist persecution.
In July 1980, Cuban hitman Antonio "Tony" Montana...,
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Night Moves is a 1975 film starring Gene Hackman, directed by Arthur Penn. It features very early career appearances by Melanie Griffith and James Woods. The film was written by Alan Sharp. The original music score was composed by Michael Small. The film's tagline is: "Maybe he would find the girl... maybe he would find himself."An "anti-detective" thriller in the style of Vertigo and the television series The Rockford Files, the film stars Hackman as Harry Moseby, a retired professional football player working as a private investigator in Los Angeles. Moseby is hired by a former actress to find her runaway stepdaughter (Griffith). The case takes him to the Florida Keys and it soon becomes considerably more complicated and dangerous than it had originally seemed.Private investigator Harry Moseby is dedicated to his job, but his dedication does not make him happy or powerful in his personal life, and his wife Ellen is unfaithful to him. Aging actress Arlene Iverson hires Harry to find...,
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Harris Yulin was born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
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