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Burt Young
Age: 69
Height: 5' 8"
Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Born: Apr. 30th, 1940
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BIOGRAPHY: Burly, talented character actor who has remained consistently busy playing "rough at the edge" type characters, often on the wrong side of the law. Young was born Jerry De Louise on April 30 1940 in New York City, where he received his dramatic arts training under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.
Young first gathered notice playing tough thugs in such films as The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971), Across 110th Street (1972), Chinatown (1974) and The Gambler (1974). Fiery director Sam Peckinpah cast Young as the getaway driver / assassin, "Mac", in The Killer Elite (1975), and Young came to the attention of newcomer Sylvester Stallone, who cast him as future brother-in-law 'Paulie' in the 1976 sleeper hit Rocky (1976). The talented Young was nominated for an Oscar, and has gone on to reprise the role in all five "Rocky" sequels to date! Peckinpah re-hired him to play renegade trucker "Pigpen" in the moderately successful Convoy (1978) (watch for "Pigpen's" Mack truck where the writing on the door states "Paulie Hauling"!).
Young has also appeared in numerous other major productions, including Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002).
TRIVIA:
- Used to be a boxer.
- 'Sylvester Stallone' (qv) gave Young an inscribed gold Cartier watch in the 1990s, which he still wears.
- Owns a restaurant in The Bronx, New York City.
- Jobs worked during his salad days were as a carpet cleaner, salesman and installer.
- Is Italian/American
- Has a daughter: Anne Morea (b. 1969)
- Along with 'Sylvester Stallone' (qv) and 'Tony Burton (I)' (qv), he is the only other actor to have appeared in all six 'Rocky' movies.
- The father of actress 'Anne Morea' (qv), they appeared together in a 1995 Los Angeles production of "A View from the Bridge".
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