Richard Young

Known for ActingBorn 1939-10-17Died 2010-12-15Penfield, État de New York, États-Unis

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Inferno in Paradise

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The Reluctant Heroes

The Avengers

Cheers

Kung Fu

Amazing Stories

Murder, She Wrote

Knight Rider

Highway to Heaven

Beauty and the Beast

Ellery Queen

Hunter

Laverne & Shirley

Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free

Let's Do It Again

Ironside

Splendor in the Grass

Pancho Barnes

Switch

Flamingo Road

Salem's Lot

An Innocent Man

Room 222

Special Report: Journey to Mars

Saigon Commandos

1969

The Ice Pirates

The F.B.I.

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

Assassin

Fly Me

Final Mission

Night Call Nurses

Cocaine Cowboys

Cry Your Purple Heart Out

Eye of the Widow

Swim Team

Lords of the Deep

Cherry Hill High