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 Jerry De Louise on April 30 1940 in New York City, where he 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).

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posted by Cindy Mercado Pascual
I knew Burt when I lived in New York while dating a friend of his Lenny. Burt is a wonderful gentleman. I was in a terrible accident in Telluride where I injured several vertebrae and whe I returned home from Telluride and winter came I was in so much pain that he offered to fly me to stay at his home with his family until winter in New York was over. I met my husband on the flight to California and began dating him until married about one year later. I will never forget Burt for being such a good and kind man. May GOD bless him and his family now and forever.
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  • "I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun." - BY, on playing Paulie in the Rocky films.
  • "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"
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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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  • The father of actress Anne Morea, they appeared together in a 1995 Los Angeles production of "A View from the Bridge".
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  • Played Robert Blake's brother in the "Baretta" series.
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  • Is Italian/American
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  • Was considered for the role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972).
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  • Used to be a boxer.
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  • Jobs worked during his salad days were as a carpet cleaner, salesman and installer.
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  • Served in U.S. Marines from 1957 to 1959.
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  • Sylvester Stallone gave Young an inscribed gold Cartier watch in the 1990s, which he still wears.
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  • Wife, Gloria, gave birth to their one and only daughter five years before her death.
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  • is Italian-American
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  • Has a daughter: Anne Morea (b. 1969)
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  • In 1980 he guest-starred in a TV movie called Murder Can Hurt You (1980) (TV), a spoof on popular detective shows, in which he played "Lt. Palumbo"; ironically, 14 years later he appeared in a serious role in Columbo: Undercover (1994) (TV).
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  • Owns a restaurant in The Bronx, New York City.
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