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Burt Young (born April 30, 1940 in Queens, New York, USA) is an American actor, painter and author. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining. ...
1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ...
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Queens is geographically the largest of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States, and the most ethnically diverse county in the U.S. It is coterminous with Queens County in the State of New York and is located on western Long Island. ...
April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining. ...
1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ...
Queens is geographically the largest of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States, and the most ethnically diverse county in the U.S. It is coterminous with Queens County in the State of New York and is located on western Long Island. ...
Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ...
Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ...
An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ...
Early life
Born Jerry De Louise to an Italian family in Queens, New York, Young was trained by Lee Strasberg at the world-famous Actor's Studio. Queens is geographically the largest of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States, and the most ethnically diverse county in the U.S. It is coterminous with Queens County in the State of New York and is located on western Long Island. ...
January 20, 1978: Lee Strasberg talks about his craft during a two-week seminar in Germany. ...
The Actors Studio is a theatrical school and workshop located in the Old Labor Stage on 44th Street in New York City. ...
Acting career Young made his name playing rough-edged, working class Italian-American characters, the best known example being his signature role, as Sylvester Stallone's brother-in-law Paulie in Rocky, in 1976, for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. He is one of three actors (Sylvester Stallone and Tony Burton being the other two) who have appeared in every Rocky film. The term working class is used to denote a social class. ...
An Italian-American is an American of Italian descent either born in America or someone who has immigrated. ...
Sylvester Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is an American Academy Award-nominated actor, director, producer and screenwriter. ...
Rocky is a 1976 film written by and starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by John G. Avildsen. ...
1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to male actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
Sylvester Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is an American Academy Award-nominated actor, director, producer and screenwriter. ...
Tony Burton is an American actor. ...
Rocky is a 1976 film written by and starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by John G. Avildsen. ...
He has played similar roles in Chinatown, Convoy, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Once Upon A Time In America, and Last Exit to Brooklyn. Chinatown is a 1974 film directed by Roman Polanski featuring many elements of the film noir genre, particularly a multi-layered story that is part mystery and part psychological drama. ...
Convoy was a movie released in 1978, directed by Sam Peckinpah, and starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, and Burt Young. ...
The Pope of Greenwich Village is a 1984 film starring Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts. ...
Once Upon a Time in America (Italian title Cera una volta in America) (1984) is the last film by director Sergio Leone, and features Robert De Niro and James Woods as Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in New York Citys world of organized crime. ...
Cover of the 1988 Grove Press reissue of Last Exit to Brooklyn Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. ...
Young has also appeared in many television programs, including Baretta, Law & Order, M*A*S*H, guest-starred in a Miami Vice episode and a highly memorable appearance on The Sopranos as an old mobster dying with cancer who comes out of retirement to execute a hit on a godson whom he hates. The cover of the Baretta Season 1 DVD set. ...
Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ...
M*A*S*H title screen from the television series M*A*S*H was a media franchise active, in various forms, from 1968 to 1986. ...
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Painter Young is a painter whose art has been displayed in galleries throughout the world and can be bought from his website.
Author Young is a published author whose works include two filmed screenplays and 400-page historically-based novel called Endings.
He has also written two stage plays: SOS and A Letter to Alicia and the New York City Government From a Man With a Bullet in His Head.
Personal life He was married, until her death and only have one daughter, Anne Morea. Young owns a restaurant in The Bronx, New York. The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States. ...
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