Richard Young Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Lead actor Richard Young made his television debut in 1965 and appeared in several films beginning in the early '70s. His most significant movie was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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Murder, She Wrote: Amsterdam Kill

Synopsis: The scene is a writers' conference in Amsterdam, attended by (among many others) Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) and her British friend Nigel Allison (Joseph Maher). Things take a sinister turn when Nigel is kidnapped--whereupon the victim's so-called friend Collin Biddle (Marcus Gilbert) Read More

1994
Fatal Skies

Synopsis: In this socially-conscious drama, a group of students take on a greedy factory owner who is plotting to dump his toxic waste and pollute a town's water supply. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
An Innocent Man

Actors: Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins, David Rasche, Richard Young

Synopsis: In Peter Yates' crime drama An Innocent Man, Tom Selleck plays Jimmie Rainwood, a stock figure airline maintenance supervisor with a perfect family. Then, one day, Jimmie decides to take a shower. While scrubbing himself clean, two crooked cops are getting themselves dirtier. Mike Parnell (David Rasche Read More

10/6/89
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Actors: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, River Phoenix

Synopsis: The third installment in the widely beloved Spielberg/Lucas Indiana Jones saga begins with an introduction to a younger Indy (played by the late River Phoenix), who, through a fast-paced prologue, gives the audience insight into the roots of his taste for adventure, fear of snakes, and dogged Read More

5/24/89
1969

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley, Winona Ryder

Synopsis: Ernest Thompson, the playwright responsible for the Pulitzer Prize winning On Golden Pond, makes his directorial debut with 1969. Kiefer Sutherland plays a draft-age youth who undergoes an epiphany when one of his friends is killed in Vietnam. Sutherland's subsequent antiwar stance causes a great Read More

11/18/88
Inferno in Paradise

1988
Saigon Commandos

Actors: Richard Young, P.J. Soles, John Allen Nelson, Jimi B, Jr., Spanky Manikan

Synopsis: In this routine actioner, Sergeant Mark Stryker (Richard Young) is framed for murder by the scheming politician Nguyen HuuTri (Joonee Gamboa) in war-torn Saigon. Stryker uncovers evidence that the series of murders he is blamed for were committed by heroin dealers in cahoots with Tri. The wrongly Read More

1988
Love at the Top

Synopsis: A lingerie designer (Janis Paige) finds herself falling for her competition, the son-in-law of her boss. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Assassin

Synopsis: In this made-for-television drama, a former-CIA agent is called back into to service to stop a megalomaniacal scientist's killer robot from assassinating the President and other major political figures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Cheers: Love Thy Neighbor

Synopsis: Norm (George Wendt) is convinced that his wife Vera is fooling around with his next-door neighbor, and presses Carla into service as an ersatz private eye to get the goods on his wife. Elsewhere, Sam (Ted Danson) lands a job as a radio sports call-in host, only to blow it by delivering a heartfelt Read More

1985
Final Mission

Actors: Richard Young, John Ericson, Christine L. Tudor, Jason Ross, John Dresden

Synopsis: Revenge and violence are the key motifs in this action film by Philippine director {$Cirio Santiago). Vince (Richard Young) is a Vietnam vet who has been a shade too brutal in his handling of some petty thieves. His actions rankle the murderous minds of the thieves, and they exact revenge by Read More

1985
Ninja Masters of Death

Synopsis: In this actioner, good-guy ninjas save the world from bad ones. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1985
Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning

Actors: John Shepard, Melanie Kinnaman, Shavar Ross, Richard Young, Carol Locatell, Marco St. John

Synopsis: The murderous spirit of Jason Vorhees lives on in this horror sequel, although the plot hinges on the mystery of whether the killer's body actually survives. Opening with a nightmare prologue in which Corey Feldman reprises his role as Tommy Jarvis, the boy who killed Jason in the previous Read More

1985
High Risk

Actors: James Brolin, Cleavon Little, Bruce Davison, Chick Vennera, Anthony Quinn

Synopsis: Stewart Raffill directs the high-action comedy caper igh Risk about a four-man band of theives trying to pull off the perfect crime. Stone (James Brolin), Tony (Chick Venera), Dan (Bruce Davidson), and Rockney (Cleavon Little) hire two inept airplane pilots and plot a major heist. The plan is to Read More

1981
Swim Team

Synopsis: In this sports drama, a swim coach must work overtime to turn his wimpy swim team into champions. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Cocaine Cowboys

Synopsis: Cocaine Cowboys is an odd, simply dreadful little film which tries to be chic and innovative but merely succeeds in being confusing and tiresome. The film purports to tell the story of a rock group that supports itself between gigs by selling cocaine. This side business gets them into trouble with Read More

1979
Laverne & Shirley: Guinea Pigs

Synopsis: In their efforts to earn 20 dollars in order to attend a cocktail party, the girls agree to be human guinea pigs for a team of behavioral science researchers. As a result, Laverne (Penny Marshall) is deprived of sleep for a lengthy period of time, while Shirley (Cindy Williams) is forced to eat Read More

1977
Banjo Hackett

Actors: Don Meredith, Ike Eisenmann, Jennifer Warren, Chuck Connors, Dan O'Herlihy

Synopsis: Also known as Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free, this TV pilot film stars Don Meredith in the title role. Banjo Hackett is a western horsetrader, circa 1885, who travels in the company of his orphaned nephew (Ike Eisenmann). While searching for a rare Arabian mare stolen from the nephew's late mother Read More

1976
Let's Do It Again

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos, Jimmie "J.J." Walker

Synopsis: A pair of blue-collar buddies use hypnosis to turn a wimpy boxer into a champ in this crime comedy, which reunites actor/director Sidney Poitier and comedian Bill Cosby, stars of the similarly themed Uptown Saturday Night. Clyde Williams (Poitier) and Billy Foster (Cosby) want to help raise funds Read More

1975
Fly Me

Synopsis: Kung Fu goes airborne in Fly Me. A bunch of martial-arts assassins board a passenger plane. En route, the thugs terrorize the passengers and insist that the flight be re-routed. They are thwarted by a resourceful stewardess, who knows a little something about Kung Fu herself. Another gem from Read More

1973
Ironside: And Then There Was One

Synopsis: Someone in San Francisco has been attacking Vietnam veterans with military-issue hand grenades. Two ex-soldiers have already fallen victim to the mystery assailant, and one of them has been killed. Ironside's aide Mark (Don Mitchell), a friend of the dead man, wants some answers--and thus he sets Read More

1972
Night Call Nurses

Synopsis: A trio of toothsome psychiatric nurses tangle with a psycho killer and other travails in this third entry in Roger Corman's Nurses cycle of sex comedies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
The F.B.I.: Downfall

Synopsis: Shedding his "good guy" TV image, Carl Betz guests in this episode as veteran jewel fence Martin Ashton. Having long sheltered his daughter Lynne (Anne Archer) from his criminal activities, Ashton is outraged when the girl announces plans to marry his accomplice Mike Keller (Michael Burns). As FBI Read More

1971
Avengers: Look (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers

Synopsis: Steed and Tara investigate when the directors of Project Cupid, a top-secret construction project, are being systematically murdered. The culprit turns out to be a has-been vaudeville comedian, who resents the fact that Project Cupid plans to demolish a number of old music halls. Captured by the Read More

1965