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Richard Young
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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 telev…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2004
Salem's Lot
TV show Nolly
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1996
Special Report: Journey to Mars
Movie Astronaut Charles Downing
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1991
Eye of the Widow
Movie Prince Malko Linge
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1989
An Innocent Man
Movie Danny Scalise
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1989
Lords of the Deep
Movie Chadwick
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1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Movie Fedora
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1988
Pancho Barnes
Movie Roger Chute
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1988
1969
Movie Ralph's Cellmate
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1988
Saigon Commandos
Movie Sgt. Mark Stryker
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1987
Beauty and the Beast
TV show Buddy
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1986
Assassin
Movie Robert Golem
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1985
Amazing Stories
TV show Davy Crockett
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1985
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Movie Matthew Letter
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1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Nick Halsey
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1984
Highway to Heaven
TV show Sheriff
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1984
Hunter
TV show Jesse
More credits
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1984
Final Mission
Movie Sergeant Vince Deacon
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1984
The Ice Pirates
Movie Debs
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1982
Cheers
TV show Frank
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1982
Knight Rider
TV show Sonny Prince
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1981
Splendor in the Grass
Movie Brian Stacey
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1981
Flamingo Road
TV show
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1979
Cocaine Cowboys
Movie Terry
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1979
Swim Team
Movie Johnny
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1977
Cherry Hill High
Movie Vintner
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1976
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
Movie Luke Mintore
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1976
Laverne & Shirley
TV show
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1976
Cry Your Purple Heart Out
Movie Frank
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1975
Let's Do It Again
Movie Biggie's Crony #3
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1975
Ellery Queen
TV show
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1975
Switch
TV show Larry Castle
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1974
Inferno in Paradise
Movie Clay Martin
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1973
Fly Me
Movie Doctor
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1972
Kung Fu
TV show Verne
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1972
Night Call Nurses
Movie Kyle Toby
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1971
The Reluctant Heroes
Movie Pvt. Golden
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1969
Room 222
TV show
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1967
Ironside
TV show
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1965
The F.B.I.
TV show Mason Carter
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1961
The Avengers
TV show Sir Jeremy Broadfoot
