Aida Young

Aida Young
Born	1920 Stepney
Died	2007 London Borough of Camden
Nationality	United Kingdom

Aida Young [née Cohen] (1920 – 2007) was a British film producer. Her credits include She.

Young was born in Stepney in 1920 where her family ran a pawnbrokers. She wanted to be an actress and after college she worked for a company who made documentary films.

Young married Gideon Young at Golders Green Synagogue on at 21 July 1948.

Young went into the film industry in the 1950s which was not a great time for British films. She did work as an associate producer for MGM in 1962 on the romantic film Light in the Piazza. She had to stand open discrimination against her because she was female before she worked for Hammer Films. She was a second assistant director on the Hammer's success with The Quatermass Xperiment.

Young was production managers of "The New Adventures of Charlie Chan" for British television. The took the same role on "The Adventures of William Tell" in 1958 and on "The Invisible Man" the following year. In 1964 she was finally credited as "Producer" on Danger Man in 1964.

She returned to film for two successes which were She and One Million Years BC . These starred Ursula Andress and Raquel Welch in 1965 and 1966 respectively. One of her tasks as Associate Producer was to ensure that the press did not reveal that the glamorous lead of Raquel Welch was in fact a married mother of two. Two years later she was credited as a film producer for The Vengeance of She. In 1970 she did another cave-girl movie, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth before Young did horror film for Hammer films, before switching to TV spinoff films. These were based on popular British TV comedies such as Steptoe and Son in 1972 and The Likely Lads in 1976.In 1981 she worked on The Bunker in Paris which won an Emmy award for NBC.

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