Carleton Young
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Carleton Young (left) and Dave O'Brien (right) in Reefer Madness (1936)
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Carleton Scott Young October 21, 1905 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | November 7, 1994 (aged 89) Burbank, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Gordon Roberts, Carleton G. Young, Carlton Young |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1935–73 |
| Spouse(s) | Noel Toy (1945-94) (his death) |
Carleton Scott Young (October 21, 1905 – November 7, 1994) was an American character actor born in New York City, New York and known for his deep voice.
Young appeared in 235 American television and film roles with his first being The Fighting Marines (1935). He ended his career in the 1973 television series The Magician which starred Bill Bixby.
Other films Young was cast in are: Reefer Madness (1936) Navy Blues (1937), Dick Tracy (1937), Valley of the Sun (1942), Flying Leathernecks (1951), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953), Walt Disney's adaptation of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) as John Howard, and The Horse Soldiers (1959). Portraying a newspaper editor in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), his memorable line was: "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." He also appeared in Hitchcock's "North By Northwest".
His radio career included a brief star turn as the title role in a short-lived crime drama, The Whisperer (1951), somewhat loosely derived from the longtime crime hit The Whistler. Young played attorney Philip Gault, whose voice was destroyed in an accident, and who developed a sardonic whisper to compensate until his voice was restored, using a whispering persona to infiltrate the underworld where he steered unsuspecting mobsters into the clutches of the law as represented by his real identity as a lawyer.
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