Overview

• Harris Yulin died June 10, 2025, at age 87 in New York from cardiac arrest, a fact confirmed by his family and manager.
• His career spanned more than 50 years across stage, film and television, beginning with his New York theater debut in 1963 after studying at the University of California.
• He was best known for portraying the corrupt cop Mel Bernstein in Scarface and Buddy Dieker in Ozark, and earned an Emmy nomination for his work on Frasier in 1996.
• Born in Los Angeles on November 5, 1937, Yulin was abandoned in infancy and adopted by a Russian Jewish family.
• At the time of his death, he had been preparing to begin shooting the series "American Classic" directed by Michael Hoffman and starring Kevin Kline and Laura Linney.