Richard Young

Richard Young

Known For:Acting
Gender:Male
Birthday:1939-10-17
Place of Birth:Penfield, État de New York, États-Unis
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Known For: Acting Gender: Male Birthday: 1939-10-17 More

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Richard Young (born in 1955 in Kissimmee, Florida) is an American actor who spent most of his career as a blandly competent, mostly-supporting player in various films and on television. Young began his career in the early 70s with TV guest spots and in Roger Corman's New World exploitation films like Fly Me and Night Call Nurses (both 1972). He went on to many other TV appearances, leading up to recurring roles on shows like Flamingo Road and Texas in the early 80s. Parts in higher profile films like High Risk (1981) and The Ice Pirates (1984) followed suit. Young is perhaps best known for his small role in the opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) as "Fedora," the leader of the tomb-robbers who chases the young Indiana Jones then gives the young Jones his own fedora which later becomes Jones' hat. That same year he had a decent supporting role in the prison-set action / drama An Innocent Man alongside Tom Selleck. He also had top-billed starring roles in 'B' action films like Final Mission (1984) and Saigon Commandos (1988), and a supporting part in the Corman production Lords of the Deep (1989), one of many films hoping to cash-in on all the hype behind The Abyss. Horror fans know Young as the friendly psychiatrist Matt, who gets a spike driven through his forehead, in the fifth installment of the Friday the 13th series. Likewise, starring in the big budget international bomb Eye of the Widow (1991), which took three years to produce and wasn't even released in the U.S., seemed to drive a spike through his career as a leading man. Outside of a couple of TV appearances, he hasn't been seen in anything since.
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Salem's Lot
Drama Mystery
Special Report: Journey to Mars
Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Eye of the Widow
Crime Action Adventure
An Innocent Man
Crime Drama Thriller
Lords of the Deep
Science Fiction Thriller Adventure
1969
Drama War
Assassin
TV Movie Science Fiction Action Thriller Mystery
Amazing Stories
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Drama Comedy Family Mystery Crime
Murder, She Wrote
Mystery Crime Drama
Highway to Heaven
Family Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Hunter
Action & Adventure Drama
Final Mission
Crime Action Thriller
The Ice Pirates
Science Fiction Action Adventure Comedy
Knight Rider
Action & Adventure Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy Crime
Ellery Queen
Mystery Drama
Switch
Action & Adventure Drama
Fly Me
Action Drama
Kung Fu
Action & Adventure Drama Western Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Room 222
Comedy Drama
Ironside
Crime Drama Mystery
The F.B.I.
Crime Drama Mystery
The Avengers
Action & Adventure Crime Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • name:Richard Young
  • Known For:Acting
  • Gender:Male
  • Birthday:1939-10-17
  • Place of Birth:Penfield, État de New York, États-Unis
  • Also Known As:
  • Biography:Richard Young (born in 1955 in Kissimmee, Florida) is an American actor who spent most of his career as a blandly competent, mostly-supporting player in various films and on television. Young began his career in the early 70s with TV guest spots and in Roger Corman's New World exploitation films like Fly Me and Night Call Nurses (both 1972). He went on to many other TV appearances, leading up to recurring roles on shows like Flamingo Road and Texas in the early 80s. Parts in higher profile films like High Risk (1981) and The Ice Pirates (1984) followed suit. Young is perhaps best known for his small role in the opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) as "Fedora," the leader of the tomb-robbers who chases the young Indiana Jones then gives the young Jones his own fedora which later becomes Jones' hat. That same year he had a decent supporting role in the prison-set action / drama An Innocent Man alongside Tom Selleck. He also had top-billed starring roles in 'B' action films like Final Mission (1984) and Saigon Commandos (1988), and a supporting part in the Corman production Lords of the Deep (1989), one of many films hoping to cash-in on all the hype behind The Abyss. Horror fans know Young as the friendly psychiatrist Matt, who gets a spike driven through his forehead, in the fifth installment of the Friday the 13th series. Likewise, starring in the big budget international bomb Eye of the Widow (1991), which took three years to produce and wasn't even released in the U.S., seemed to drive a spike through his career as a leading man. Outside of a couple of TV appearances, he hasn't been seen in anything since.
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