Carleton Young

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Carleton Scott Young (born October 21, 1905 in New York City , † November 7, 1994 in Burbank , California ) was an American actor .

life and career

Carleton Young began his acting career in the theater and worked on Broadway from the early 1930s . In the films of the 1930s and 1940s, Young was seen almost exclusively in smaller, mostly insignificant roles. He had a slightly bigger role in 1936 in the cheap production Reefer Madness , which warned in a ridiculous way of the dangers of drug consumption and is best known today for its involuntary comedy. Otherwise he only got bigger roles in film series or B- Westerns , including in 1937 as the brother of the title character in the serial Dick Tracy . In 1941 he returned to Broadway for a short time with the play Cuckoos On the Hearth by Parker Fennelly , but then turned back to film work. In addition, Young with his distinctive deep voice could also be heard in some radio roles.

It was not until the 1950s that he increasingly appeared in more elaborately produced films as a supporting actor, often impersonating figures of authority. Young worked on several films from the late work of director John Ford . In Ford's 1962 film classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance , Young, in the role of a newspaper editor, utters one of the most famous sentences in western film history: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend!" In the German dubbed version this sentence is with “We want to preserve our legends. They have come true for us. ” Translated quite loosely. After over 250 film and television productions, the character actor ended his screen career in 1973. Carleton Young died in November 1994 at the age of 89. From 1945 until his death he was married to the burlesque dancer Noel Toy, who was nicknamed "the Chinese Sally Rand " because of her Chinese roots and shows .

Carleton Young is not to be confused with the actor Carleton G. Young (1907–1971), who was about the same age and appeared in A Satan's Woman and Honeymoon for three . Even the All Movie Guide mistook the two actors for one another.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carleton G. Young (IMDb). Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
  2. ^ Carleton Young | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Retrieved March 15, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Young, Carleton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Young, Carleton Scott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1994
Place of death Burbank , California