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Birthday: Oct 17, 1939
Place of Birth: Penfield, État de New York, États-Unis

Richard Young

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.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Fedora 1989
Cocaine Cowboys Terry 1979
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning Matthew Letter 1985
Night Call Nurses Kyle Toby 1972
Splendor in the Grass Brian Stacey 1981
Cry Your Purple Heart Out Frank 1976
Saigon Commandos Sgt. Mark Stryker 1988
Swim Team Johnny 1979
Cherry Hill High Vintner 1977
The Ice Pirates Debs 1984
Special Report: Journey to Mars Astronaut Charles Downing 1996
Fly Me Doctor 1973
The Reluctant Heroes Pvt. Golden 1971
Final Mission Sergeant Vince Deacon 1984
1969 Ralph's Cellmate 1988
An Innocent Man Danny Scalise 1989
Eye of the Widow Prince Malko Linge 1991
Lords of the Deep Chadwick 1989
Inferno in Paradise Clay Martin 1974
Assassin Robert Golem 1986
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free Luke Mintore 1976
Series Cast Year
Cheers Frank 1982
Kung Fu 1972
The F.B.I. Mason Carter 1965
Knight Rider Sonny Prince 1982
Beauty and the Beast 1987
Flamingo Road 1981
Highway to Heaven Sheriff 1984
The Avengers Sir Jeremy Broadfoot 1961
Room 222 1969
Laverne & Shirley 1976
Hunter Jesse 1984
Ironside 1967
Switch Larry Castle 1975
Ellery Queen 1975
Amazing Stories Davy Crockett 1985
Salem's Lot Nolly 2004
Murder, She Wrote Nick Halsey 1984
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