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Otis Young

Otis Young

Actor

Otis E. Young (July 4, 1932 in Providence, Rhode Island – October 11, 2001) was an African-American actor. He was only the second African-American actor to co-star in a television Western, The Outcasts (1968-1969), with Don Murray, the first being Raymond St Jacques who had co-starred on the final season of Rawhide in 1965, as cattle drover Simon Blake. Young played another memorable role as Jack Nicholson's shore-patrol partner in the 1973 comedy-drama film The Last Detail. Young, one of 14 children, joined the U.S. Marine Corps at the age of 17 and served in the Korean War. He then enrolled in acting classes at New York University School of Education where his classmate was the young Louis Gossett, Jr.. He trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and worked off-Broadway as an actor and writer in the early 1960s. (He appeared on Broadway in James Baldwin's "Blues for Mr. Charlie," with such notables as Diana Sands, and Al Freeman, Jr..) His first movie appearance was in Murder in Mississippi (1965). In 1983 Young earned his bachelor's degree from L. I. F. E. Bible College in Los Angeles and became an ordained pastor, eventually serving as senior pastor of Elim Foursquare Gospel Church in Rochester, New York, from 1986-1988. He taught acting classes at School Without Walls, a college-like alternative public high school in Rochester, from 1987 through 1991. In 1989 he joined the faculty at Monroe Community College in Rochester; he remained there as a Professor of Communications and head of the Drama Department until his retirement in 1999. Otis Young suffered a stroke in Los Angeles and died in 2001. He was survived by his (second) wife, Barbara, and his children, Saudia Young, Lovelady Young, El Mahdi Young, and Jemal Young. Description above from the Wikipedia article Otis Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: July 4, 1932 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Died: October 11, 2001 (Age 69)

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Otis Young  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
3.3
ActorJason1979
Movie
6.4
ActorWaiter1980
Movie
3.5
ActorEgg Factory Foreman2001
Movie
4.1
ActorSawyer1973
Movie
4.6
ActorLieutenant Piantadosi1980
Movie
7.6
ActorGM1 'Mule' Mulhall1973
Movie
6.1
Actor1967
Movie
5.2
ActorBill Elkins1968
TV Show
7.2
Actor26 Episodes1968-1969
TV Show
7.1
ActorAdam
1 Episode
1964-1970
TV Show
7.2
ActorMike Watson
1 Episode
1965-1974
TV Show
8
Actor1 Episode1981-1987
TV Show
6.6
Actor1 Episode1971-1976
TV Show
8.2
Actor1 Episode1975-1976
TV Show
6.1
Actor1 Episode1984-1984
TV Show
8.2
ActorLawrence Melville
1 Episode
1971-2003
Movie
6
ActorCartwright1976
Movie
5.5
ActorDr. John Quincy1967
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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