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Noah Young

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Noah Young
Young in A Sailor-Made Man (1921)
Born
Noah Young Jr.

(1887-02-02)February 2, 1887
Cañon City, Colorado, U.S.
DiedApril 18, 1958(1958-04-18) (aged 71)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationsActor, weightlifter
Years active1918–1935

Noah Young, Jr. (February 2, 1887 – April 18, 1958) was a champion weightlifter who became a motion-picture actor.

Biography

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Young was born in Cañon City, Colorado. His father, Noah Young, was a foreman of the Glenrock coal mine who later became a coal mine inspector for the State of Wyoming;[1][2] and his mother was Mary Anson, of English descent. Noah Young Sr. came from a family of coal miners in Lancashire, England; and he dabbled in bare-knuckle fighting before heading to America in 1874 and settling in Colorado. He was allegedly once an Indian scout and became friends with William F. Cody.

Noah Young Jr. joined the Hal Roach studios in 1918 as an actor, mainly playing comic villains. He was a mainstay of the Roach company, appearing in dozens of short comedies. He is remembered as a foil for Harold Lloyd in more than 50 films, but Young also appeared opposite Roach stars Snub Pollard, Charley Chase, and Stan Laurel. In 1927 Young was featured in three early Laurel and Hardy comedies.

Young left Roach's employ in 1927. Work became less steady, but his old colleague Harold Lloyd remembered him and featured him in his first talking feature, Welcome Danger (1929). Noah Young worked in three more Lloyd features through 1934.

Noah Young returned to the Hal Roach studio in 1934, again as a member of the stock company. The last film on which he received screen credit was Bum Voyage (1934), a Thelma Todd-Patsy Kelly comedy. Young went on to play uncredited small roles and bits in three more Roach comedies before leaving the studio in 1935.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hired Young to appear in the ensemble of the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald musical The Girl of the Golden West (1938), along with fellow silent-screen veterans Billy Bevan and Victor Potel.[3] It was his last assignment; he retired from pictures after the film was finished.

Noah Young died in Los Angeles, California, in 1958.[4]

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ↑ Our paper, Volume 21 By Massachusetts Reformatory (Concord, Mass.) 1905 pg. 46
  2. ↑ Passenger Manifest SS Malodo June 19, 1930
  3. ↑ Variety, "Metro Pix Now in Production", Jan. 26, 1938, p. 19.
  4. ↑ California Death Index
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