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Burt Young

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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 on April 30 1940 in New York City, the son of a high school shop teacher. He is of Italian descent. Young 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).
BornApril 30, 1940
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James Gandolfini and Burt Young in The Sopranos (1999)
James Caan and Burt Young in The Gambler (1974)
James Caan and Burt Young in The Gambler (1974)
Paul Ben-Victor, Billy Drago, and Burt Young in Very Mean Men (2000)
Scott Baio, Ben Gazzara, and Burt Young in Very Mean Men (2000)
Burt Young in Very Mean Men (2000)
Ben Gazzara and Burt Young in Very Mean Men (2000)
Burt Young in Convoy (1978)
Burt Young in Convoy (1978)
Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, and Burt Young in Convoy (1978)
Franklyn Ajaye and Burt Young in Convoy (1978)
Franklyn Ajaye and Burt Young in Convoy (1978)

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Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire in Rocky (1976)
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  • Paulie
  • 1976
Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in Chinatown (1974)
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  • Curly
  • 1974
Paul Giamatti and Alex Shaffer in Win Win (2011)
Win Win
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  • Leo Poplar
  • 2011

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  • The Final Code (2021)
    The Final Code
  • Kelly LeBrock, Joanne Scorcia, Burt Young, Annunziato Carbone, Dave Morrissey Jr., Teddy Smith, Heather Cole, Greg Kritikos, and Dominick Martini in Tomorrow's Today (2021)
    Tomorrow's Today
  • Kelly LeBrock, Frederick Stroppel, Burt Young, Annunziato Carbone, Susan Goforth, Gregory Guzzetta, Nicky Sunshine, George N. Mikedis, Dave Cremin, Luna Chegi, Dino Castelli, Dave Morrissey Jr., Heather Cole, Colin Buckingham, Domenico Del Giacco, and Dominick Martini in Tomorrow's Today (2021)
    Tomorrow's Today
  • William Baldwin, Jeff Fahey, David A.R. White, and Brighton Sharbino in Beckman (2020)
    Beckman
  • Road to the Lemon Grove (2019)
    Road to the Lemon Grove
  • Bottom of the 9th (2019)
    Bottom of the 9th
  • Don Johnson, Chazz Palminteri, Theo Rossi, Clive Standen, and Samira Wiley in Vault (2019)
    Vault
  • Caitlin Carmichael in Epiphany (2019)
    Epiphany
  • Heather Matarazzo, Juliette Bennett, Jamie Bernadette, Whitney Kimball Long, Shannon Brown, and Marilyn Bass in Smothered by Mothers (2019)
    Smothered by Mothers
  • Natasha Lyonne in Russian Doll (2019)
    Russian Doll
  • Zach McGowan in The Brawler (2019)
    The Brawler
  • Tapestry (2019)
    Tapestry
  • The Amityville Murders (2018)
    The Amityville Murders
  • Sally Kirkland, Federico Castelluccio, Garry Pastore, Vincent Pastore, Tony Sirico, Burt Young, Sonja O'Hara, and Samantha Scaffidi in Sarah Q (2018)
    Sarah Q
  • The Selfish Ones (2018)
    The Selfish Ones
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  • Uncle Joe Shannon (1978)
    Uncle Joe Shannon
  • Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This
  • Robert Blake in Baretta (1975)
    Baretta

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  • Roomies (1987)
    Roomies
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  • Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire in Rocky (1976)
    Rocky
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    • April 30, 1940
    • New York City, New York, USA
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    October 20 - December 3, 2005 'Galerie 1225 Art et Vin' presents a unique collection of paintings by Academy Award nominated actor Burt Young.
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    Along with Sylvester Stallone and Tony Burton, he is the only other actor to have appeared in all six 'Rocky' movies.
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    It was people standing up, not even winning, just standing up, and it became a delicate love story with two pretty weak people making one whole person, meaning Sylvester and Talia (Shire)." BY, reassessing the success of "Rocky
    • Playing Tough Guys from Loveable Lowlifes to Seedy Gangsters

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