Burt Young

Burt Young ( * as Gerald "Jerry" Tommaso DeLouise on April 30, 1940 in New York City ) is an American actor. He is also known under the pseudonym John Harris.

Life

Young was born in Queens, New York, the son of Italian-American Josephine and Michael De Louise. Young took acting classes at The Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg. Its type and his appearance laid the stout performer with the thinning hair on the role of the trade " losers from the lower class " firm, often played Young rough, angular Italian-American working class. From the early 1970s he was much in demand in this roll compartment and played in numerous film classics striking supporting characters on the side of the big stars, as well as in his most famous role as Rocky's brother in law Paulie in Rocky (1976 ), where he - in his typical role - as frustrated slaughterhouse workers came into existence. In this hit movie Young could be seen on the side of Sylvester Stallone. For his performance Burt Young was nominated for an Oscar.

Young appeared in all five sequels of the Rocky saga, most recently in 2006, he played in Chinatown (1974), a cuckolded husband -. Alongside Jack Nicholson - and a truck driver in the action film Convoy (1978, alongside Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw and Ernest Borgnine ). In the epic gangster film Once Upon a Time in America in 1984, he, together with Robert De Niro to see in Mickey Blue Eyes in 1999 alongside Hugh Grant, James Caan and Jeanne Tripplehorn. In addition, numerous guest appearances came in television series, including The Sopranos, Miami Vice, Columbo and Law & Order.

Young is widowed and has a daughter (born 1969 ), Anne Morea. He lives in Port Washington, New York.

Filmography

Awards

• Nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor (Rocky )
• Nomination for the Razzie as worst supporting actor (Rocky IV)
• Nomination for the Razzie as worst supporting actor (Rocky V)