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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0244 |
| Birthday | 1939-10-17 |
| Place of Birth | Penfield, État de New York, États-Unis |
| Also Known As |
1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
7.854/11228
In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval his...
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1979
Cocaine Cowboys
3.958/12
A rock band is on the brink of super-stardom. Until now they've juggled their music career with cocaine smuggling. The musicians and their manager wis...
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Cocaine Cowboys
1985
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
5.261/1324
Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by t...
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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
1972
Night Call Nurses
4.353/17
The sweet and perky Barbara, the sunny Janis, and the responsible Sandra are a trio of young and attractive nurses who work in the psych ward at a hos...
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Night Call Nurses
1981
Splendor in the Grass
6.6/9
Two teenagers, in love in pre-Depression Kansas, cope with parental pressure and the strict sexual mores of the day.
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Splendor in the Grass
1976
Cry Your Purple Heart Out
3.643/7
Three young Vietnam vets try to score with some ladies, but strike out most of the time.
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Cry Your Purple Heart Out
1988
Saigon Commandos
5.667/3
A series of drug-related murders haunt Saigon. Ex-Green Beret Mark Stryker and his MP's must find the culprits. With the help of Jean Lassiter, a nose...
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Saigon Commandos
1979
Swim Team
3.4/5
A new swimming coach is hired to break a team's seven-year losing streak.
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Swim Team
1977
Cherry Hill High
3/4
Five recent graduates of an all-girl high school - Kippy, Sarah, Michelle, Peaches and Alison - attempt to lose their virginity during a two-week bicy...
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Cherry Hill High
1984
The Ice Pirates
5.649/218
In the not too distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed to...
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The Ice Pirates
1996
Special Report: Journey to Mars
5.75/4
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission, and th...
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Special Report: Journey to Mars
1973
Fly Me
4.857/7
Stewardesses battle kung fu killers.
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Fly Me
1971
The Reluctant Heroes
8/1
An army tale about an egghead ninety-day-wonder who relies on ancient tactics he remembers from the history books to save his beleaguered squad on an...
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The Reluctant Heroes
1984
Final Mission
4.5/8
When his family are murdered Vietnam War veteran, Vince Deacon, tracks down the man responsible for the murders and to get his revenge.
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Final Mission
1988
1969
5.611/64
Two rebellious youths, Ralph and Scott, find themselves struggling with adulthood as the Vietnam War rages. Feeling trapped in their small town, Scott...
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1969
1989
An Innocent Man
6.16/153
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a maj...
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An Innocent Man
1991
Eye of the Widow
3.444/9
A new international terrorist group attack the castle of an Austrian prince during his party, but one of the guests, a contractor, deals with them. Th...
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Eye of the Widow
1989
Lords of the Deep
3.341/44
Man has finally conquered the ocean. America's first self-contained undersea laboratory is the pride of the nation, and expectations are high for an e...
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Lords of the Deep
1974
Inferno in Paradise
9/1
The tropical oasis of Honolulu is threatened by a maniacal arsonist, who strikes seemingly without pattern, or reason. This film stars Jim Davis (Joc...
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Inferno in Paradise
1986
Assassin
5.071/7
A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials...
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Assassin
1976
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
7/1
A traveling horse trader and his young nephew travel the west in search of the boy's prize Arabian horse, who has been stolen by a bounty hunter.
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Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
1988
Pancho Barnes
6.5/2
Bored socialite Florence Pancho Barnes decides to learn to fly.
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Pancho Barnes
1975
Let's Do It Again
7/23
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brother...
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