Richard Young

Acting

Richard Young

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
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Birthday
Oct 17, 1939 (86 years old)
Death date
Dec 15, 2010

Richard Young

Known For

Salem's Lot
2 Episodes
DOLBY
TV Show 2004

Salem's Lot

A dark terror has come to the picture-perfect town of...

Special Report: Journey to Mars
2h
DOLBY
Movie 1996

Special Report: Journey to Mars

When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal...

An Innocent Man
1h 53m
DOLBY
Movie 1989

An Innocent Man

Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt...

1969
1h 35m
DOLBY
Movie 1988

1969

Two rebellious youths, Ralph and Scott, find themselves struggling with...

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
1h 32m
DOLBY
Movie 1985

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more...

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.