Richard Young

About

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...

Known for

CheersSeries • 1982The AvengersSeries • 1961Murder, She WroteSeries • 1984IronsideSeries • 1967Knight RiderSeries • 1982Highway to HeavenSeries • 1984HunterSeries • 1984The F.B.I.Series • 1965Laverne & ShirleySeries • 1976SwitchSeries • 1975Amazing StoriesSeries • 1985Room 222Series • 1969Indiana Jones and the Last CrusadeMovie • 1989Ellery QueenSeries • 1975Flamingo RoadSeries • 1981Friday the 13th: A New BeginningMovie • 1985Salem's LotSeries • 2004An Innocent ManMovie • 1989The Ice PiratesMovie • 1984Let's Do It AgainMovie • 19751969Movie • 1988Lords of the DeepMovie • 1989Kung FuSeries • 1972Beauty and the BeastSeries • 1987