Tony Young

Actor · Died February 26, 2002, aged 64 · New York City, New York, USA

As the son of radio, TV and film character actor Carleton G. Young, dark, dexterous and good-looking Tony Young was exposed early on to the machinations of the Hollywood industry. Born in New York in 1937, he was raised in Hollywood after his father's on-camera character work increased. Although Tony was offered some film roles in the early 1950s while still a teen, his father insisted that Tony receive a proper education first before putting together any kind of acting career. Following a hitch with the US Air Force, Tony attended Los Angeles City College. Working initially as an NBC page, his interest in acting had not flagged after all this time and the virile, brawny wannabe began landing TV roles in 1959 with such western shows as Overland Trail (1960), The Deputy (1959), Bronco (1958) and Laramie (1959), not to mention bit parts in the films Walk Like a Dragon (1960) and The Marriage-Go-Round (1961). In 1961, Tony was handed his own weekly series as a cavalry undercover agent in the TV western Gunslinger (1961). While the program was short-lived, it managed to basically pigeonhole him as a western player. Such low-budget films as He Rides Tall (1964) (in which he played a U.S. marshal) and Taggart (1964) (in which he is accused of murder and must clear his name) followed. On the TV front, reliable guestings occurred on such popular shows as Star Trek (1966), The Virginian (1962), Medical Center (1969), Bonanza (1959) and The Streets of San Francisco (1972). From there Tony moved more into to character work supporting Elvis Presley in his non-musical western Charro! (1969) and James Garner in the Italian "spaghetti western" A Man Called Sledge (1970). Roles in action-adventure and blaxploitation flicks also came and went in the early 70s, including Chrome and Hot Leather (1971), Play It As It Lays (1972), Black Gunn (1972), Superchick (1973) and The Outfit (1973). Thrice married and divorced to actresses, he was first briefly married to Playboy playmate Connie Mason, then to Madlyn Rhue who bore him one child and co-starred with him on both film and TV before and after their divorce, and finally to Sondra Currie. Tony's father died of cancer in 1971 at age 64. Tony, who retired from acting in the early 1990s, later succumbed to lung cancer in 2002 at the very same age as his father.

What are Tony Young's films like?

Across their 7 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Survival.

Themes

share of theme weight

Morality

51%

Survival

19%

Self

16%

Power

8%

Bonds

4%

Society

3%

Revenge3 Justice3 Violence2

What they feel like to watch

their average across 6 films

ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category

Earnest

Tone · Sincerity

ironicearnest

Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 5

Dark

Tone · Weight

lightdark

Light 0 · Serious 3 · Dark 3

Stylized

Tone · Style

naturalisticheightened

Grounded 2 · Stylized 4 · Heightened 0

Intense

Feel · Intensity

gentleintense

Gentle 0 · Charged 3 · Intense 3

Shifting

Feel · Swings

steadyswings

Steady 1 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 1

Straight-faced

Feel · Humor

noneconstant

Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0

Even-paced

Demand · Pace

slowrelentless

Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 5 · Relentless 0

Casual

Demand · Attention

casualfull focus

Casual 5 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0

Affecting

Demand · Emotional cost

easyheavy

A split, not a type: Easy watch 4 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 2

Resolved

Demand · Resolution

resolvedambiguous

Resolved 6 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0

Roles they play

2 analyzed roles

Heroas Kent Taggart in Taggart (1964)
Allyas Mallory in A Man Called Sledge (1970)

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense

6

Thrilling

4

Dread

2

Absurd

1

Hopeful

1

Other

2

How their films linger

Fun4 Haunting2 Rousing2 Unsettling2

How their films end

Happy3
Bittersweet1
Tragic1
Ambiguous2

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Tony Young's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 9 of their 19 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Also on these channels

ScreenPix1 title, show their title on ScreenPix

Subscription and free streaming for Tony Young's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

28 credits, 19 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.

Up Your Alley (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
as Restaurant Patron
Quantum Leap(1989)
Show 1 episode · as John Huston
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all shows
Spider-Woman (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1982)
as Torc
Knight Rider(1982)
Show 1 episode · as Paul Renard
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all shows
Guyana: Cult of the Damned(1979)
as Ron Harvey
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films
Spider-Woman(1979)
Show Actor
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all shows
Fantasy Island(1977)
Show 1 episode · as Joe Houston
Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all shows
The Lives of Jenny Dolan(1975)
as Interne
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
The Abduction of Saint Anne(1975)
as Vanjack
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
The Sex Symbol (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1974)
as Rick Roman
Policewomen (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1974)
as Frank Mitchell
The Six Million Dollar Man(1974)
Show 1 episode · as Jason O'Neal
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows
Act of Vengeance(1974)
as Bud
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films
The Outfit(1973)
as Accountant
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
Superchick (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1973)
as Johnny
Black Gunn(1972)
as Dell
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
Play It As It Lays(1972)
as Johnny Waters
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
A Death of Innocence (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1971)
as Joe La Cossit
Chrome and Hot Leather(1971)
as "Mitch" Mitchell
Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all films
A Man Called Sledge(1970)
as Mallory
Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films
Love, American Style (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1969)
Show 1 episode · as George
Charro!(1969)
as Lt. Rivera
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films
Star Trek(1966)
Show 1 episode · as Kryton
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all shows
An American Dream(1966)
as Hood
Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films
Taggart(1964)
as Kent Taggart
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all films
He Rides Tall (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1964)
as Marshal Morg Rocklin
Gunslinger (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1961)
Show 12 episodes · as Cord
Walk Like a Dragon(1960)
as Cabot
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films

Career shape

Star power in the 66^th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 27 titles from 1960 to 1989; peak year 1974.

Biggest box office

Guyana: Cult of the Damned (1979)

$3.8M worldwide

Highest rated

A Man Called Sledge (1970)

Midcredits 38^th

Film career

19601989

Peak 1974 · steadily prominent in film for years. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.

1969Screen debut· Charro!

By role

only this rolewith another role

Acting27 of 27 · 46^th

By decade

1960s8 · acting1970s15 · acting1980s4 · acting

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

How do Tony Young's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 38^th percentile, the median of all 13; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 32^nd percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

32^ndpercentile

Typical film, the median of 6

Approval · how many liked their films

25^thpercentile

Typical film, the median of 6

Reach · how many have seen their films

57^thpercentile

Typical film, the median of 6

Midcredits score across 19 titles, by percentile

75^th and up3
50^th to 74^th5
25^th to 49^th8
Below 25^th3

Shape of the crowd

8 of their 19 titles are Mixed.

Universally Loved2
Cult Classic1
Crowd Pleaser4
Broadly Agreed4
Mixed8

Most divisive · actor

The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975)

83^rd percentile spread · 24% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · actor

The Outfit (1973)

Midcredits 81^st · 72% liked

Reviewers score the acting 54/100 in their films, across 6 reviewed titles; fans 71, detractors 31. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Tony Young work with?

People who share at least 2 of Tony Young's MovieCove titles; Peter Brown shares the most, 2.

Peter Brown2 titles See all 2 shared titles with Peter Brown