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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Series | Sudden Master | Jude Khan | 2015-11-08 |
Movie | Ben's at Home | Delivery Guy #1 | 2014-08-09 |
Series | Off2Kali Comedy | Richard Young / Various Characters | 2012-09-19 |
Series | Rush | Unknown | 2008-09-02 |
Movie | Radiohead: In Rainbows From the Basement | Himself | 2008-05-04 |
Series | Salem's Lot | Nolly | 2004-06-20 |
Movie | One Way Ticket | Louie | 1997-01-01 |
Movie | Special Report: Journey to Mars | Astronaut Charles Downing | 1996-03-25 |
Series | Blue Heelers | Unknown | 1993-09-10 |
Movie | Eye of the Widow | Prince Malko Linge | 1991-10-17 |
Movie | An Innocent Man | Danny Scalise | 1989-10-06 |
Movie | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Fedora | 1989-05-24 |
Movie | Lords of the Deep | Chadwick | 1989-06-02 |
Movie | 1969 | Ralph's Cellmate | 1988-08-18 |
Movie | Saigon Commandos | Sgt. Mark Stryker | 1988-01-01 |
Series | Beauty and the Beast | Unknown | 1987-09-25 |
Movie | Assassin | Robert Golem | 1986-03-19 |
Movie | Friday the 13th: A New Beginning | Matthew Letter | 1985-03-22 |
Series | Amazing Stories | Unknown | 1985-09-29 |
Movie | The Ice Pirates | Debs | 1984-03-16 |
Movie | Nickel Mountain | Jeff Freund | 1984-01-01 |
Movie | Final Mission | Sergeant Vince Deacon | 1984-07-25 |
Series | Highway to Heaven | Unknown | 1984-09-19 |
Series | Hunter | Unknown | 1984-09-18 |
Series | Knight Rider | Unknown | 1982-09-26 |
Series | Cheers | Unknown | 1982-09-30 |
Series | Flamingo Road | Unknown | 1981-01-06 |
Movie | Splendor in the Grass | Brian Stacey | 1981-10-26 |
Movie | Cocaine Cowboys | Terry | 1979-10-05 |
Movie | Swim Team | Johnny | 1979-05-02 |
Movie | Cherry Hill High | Vintner | 1977-04-01 |
Movie | Cry Your Purple Heart Out | Frank | 1976-01-01 |
Series | Laverne & Shirley | Unknown | 1976-01-27 |
Movie | Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free | Luke Mintore | 1976-05-03 |
Series | Ellery Queen | Unknown | 1975-09-11 |
Series | Switch | Unknown | 1975-09-09 |
Movie | Inferno in Paradise | Clay Martin | 1974-01-01 |
Movie | Fly Me | Doctor | 1973-03-16 |
Series | Kung Fu | Unknown | 1972-10-14 |
Movie | Night Call Nurses | Kyle Toby | 1972-06-01 |
Movie | The Reluctant Heroes | Pvt. Golden | 1971-11-23 |
Series | Room 222 | Unknown | 1969-09-11 |
Series | Ironside | Unknown | 1967-03-28 |
Series | The F.B.I. | Unknown | 1965-09-19 |
Series | The Avengers | Unknown | 1961-01-07 |