He built a long Hollywood career portraying tough, but emotionally complex men in films like “Chinatown,” “The Gambler,” and “Once Upon a Time in America,” among many others.
No cause of death was provided for the 83-year-old. Young’s manager, manager, Lynda Bensky, paid tribute in a statement to, describing him as “an actor of tremendous emotional range. He could make you cry and he could scare you to death. But the real pathos that I experienced was the poignancy of his soul. That’s where it came from.”
Young was born in 1940 to a shop teacher and a dressmaker, and by all accounts had a rough childhood in the working-class neighborhood of Corona. He spoke of getting booted out of at least two high schools before joining the Marines at age 16—claiming his father lied about his age in a bid to get him into the military.
“What happened is that I was chasing a girl and she wanted to study with Lee Strasberg,” he toldin a 1985 interview. “I thought he was a girl. Anyway, I met him and he told me, ‘You’re very tense. You have huge tension about you. I feel you’re an emotional library.’”Burt Young and daughter Anne Morea during a charity 1987 charity event at Julie Andrews’ California home.
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