In 1987, he moved to Los Angeles where he co-wrote, with Randal Myler,
Hank Williams: Lost Highway. In 1990, he worked in the
Howard Korder play
Search and Destroy and the William Ball play
Cherry Orchard. Harelik has appeared in the films
Election,
Jurassic Park III,
Eulogy,
For Your Consideration, and
42. For animation; he was the voice of Queen Uberta’s
valet, Lord Rogers, in
The Swan Princess. Harelik has played parts on the television series
Seinfeld,
Numbers,
Wings,
Grace Under Fire,
Will & Grace,
NCIS, ''
Grey's Anatomy, Boy Meets World, Breaking Bad, Bones, Six Feet Under and five episodes of the first season of The Big Bang Theory'' as Dr.
Eric Gablehauser. He also played Sara Tancredi's lawyer in
Prison Break. He appeared on the series finale of
Cheers, in a 2002 episode of
Joss Whedon's
Angel as Count Kurushu, and "
Counterpoint" an episode of
Star Trek: Voyager. He also appeared in five episodes of short-lived NBC series
Awake. Harelik's play,
The Immigrant, has been well-received, and was adapted into a
musical of the same name. In 1997, he released a sequel,
The Legacy, changing it from a true story to fiction. He has appeared in several other plays including
Temptation (1989),
The Heidi Chronicles (1991),
Elmer Gantry (1991),
Tartuffe (1999),
Old Money (2000),
The Hollow Lands (2000),
The Beard of Avon (2001),
Cyrano de Bergerac (2004). In 2015, Harelik co-starred as Jamie Thompson's father in ''
This Isn't Funny, and in 2017, he played baseball player Hank Greenberg in the film Battle of the Sexes. In 2024, he was cast as Dr. Hiruluk from One Piece''. ==Personal life==