Personal life

Young was born in Queens, New York, the son of Josephine and Michael, a high school shop teacher. He is of Italian descent. He was trained by Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. Young is a widower and has one daughter, Anne Morea. He lives in Port Washington, New York. Young served a tour of duty in the United States Marine Corps from 1957 to 1959.

Career

Young made his name playing rough-edged working class Italian-American characters, the best-known example being his signature role as Sylvester Stallone's character's brother-in-law Paulie in Rocky (1976), for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He is one of four actors (the other three being Stallone, Stu Nahan and Tony Burton) who have appeared in all of the first six Rocky films (although Talia Shire also appears in the first five films and makes a flashback appearance in the sixth). Young did not reprise his role in the 2015 film Creed, with the character having died in 2012.

He has played similar roles in Chinatown, Convoy, Back to School, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Once Upon a Time in America, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Downtown: A Street Tale, and even a brutal and darker role in Amityville II: The Possession. Young has also appeared in many television programs, including The Rockford Files, Baretta, Law & Order, Walker, Texas Ranger, M*A*S*H, guest-starred in a Miami Vice episode, and made an appearance on The Sopranos ("Another Toothpick") as Bobby Baccalieri's father, who is dying of cancer and comes out of retirement to execute a hit on his godson.

Young is a painter whose art has been displayed in galleries throughout the world. As an artist, he has collaborated with the writer Gabriele Tinti, for whom he designed the cover for the poetry collection All over, as well as contributing the illustrations for the art book A man. Young is also a published author whose works include two filmed screenplays and a 400-page historically based novel called Endings.

He has written two stage plays: SOS and A Letter to Alicia and the New York City Government From a Man With a Bullet in His Head.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1970	Carnival of Blood	Gimpy	as John Harris
1971	Born to Win	First Hood
	The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight	Willie Quarequlo
1972	Across 110th Street	Lapides
1973	Cinderella Liberty	Master at Arms
1974	Chinatown	Curly
	The Gambler	Carmine
1975	The Killer Elite	Mac
	Live A Little, Steal A Lot	Sgt. Bernasconi
1976	Harry and Walter Go to New York	Warden Durgom
	Rocky	Paulie Pennino	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1977	The Choirboys	Scuzzi
1978	Convoy	Bobby "Love Machine" Pig Pen
	Uncle Joe Shannon	Joe Shannon	Also writer
1979	Rocky II	Paulie Pennino
1981	Blood Beach	Sgt. Royko
	...All the Marbles	Eddie Cisco
1982	Rocky III	Paulie Pennino
	Amityville II: The Possession	Anthony Montelli
	Lookin' to Get Out	Jerry Feldman
1984	Over the Brooklyn Bridge	Phil
	Once Upon a Time in America	Joe
	The Pope of Greenwich Village	Bed Bug Eddie
1985	Rocky IV	Paulie Pennino	Nominated - Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor
	A Summer to Remember	Fidel Fargo
1986	Back to School	Lou
1989	Going Overboard	General Noriega
	Blood Red	Andrews
	Beverly Hills Brats	Clive
1990	Last Exit to Brooklyn	Big Joe
	Betsy's Wedding	Georgie
	Wait Until Spring, Bandini	Rocco
	Club Fed	Warden Boyle
	Diving In	Coach Mack
	Backstreet Dreams	Luca
	Rocky V	Paulie Pennino	Nominated - Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor
1991	Bright Angel	Art
	Red American	George Maniago
1992	Circle of Fear	Mancini
1992	Cattive ragazze
1993	Excessive Force	Sal DiMarco
1995	Opposite Corners		Direct-to-video
1996	North Star	Reno	Direct-to-video
1997	She's So Lovely	Lorenzo
	Kicked in the Head	Jack
	The Deli	JC
	Heaven Before I Die	Pollof	Direct-to-video
	The Undertaker's Wedding	Alberto	Direct-to-video
1999	Mickey Blue Eyes	Vito Graziosi
	Loser Love	Sydney Delacroix
2000	The Florentine	Joe McCollough
	Very Mean Men	Dominic Piazza
	Blue Moon	Bobby
	Table One	Frankie Chips	Direct-to-video
2002	The Adventures of Pluto Nash	Gino
	Checkout	Uncle Louie
	Kiss the Bride	Santo Sposato
2003	Crooked Line	Mike Ameche
2004	The Wager	Jack Stockman
2005	Land of Plenty	Sherman
	Carlito's Way: Rise to Power	Artie Bottolota, Sr.	Direct-to-video
	Shut Up and Kiss Me	Vincent Bublioni
	Transamerica	Murray
2006	RevoLOUtion: The Transformation of Lou Benedetti	Himself
	Nicky's Game	Leo Singer	Short film
	Rocky Balboa	Paulie Pennino
2007	Blue Lake Massacre	Pops
	Downtown: A Street Tale	Gus
	Go Go Tales	Murray
	Oliviero Rising	Santino
	The Hideout	Mueller
	Hack!	J. T. Bates	Direct-to-video
2008	Carnera: The Walking Mountain	Lou Serosi
2009	New York, I Love You	Landlord
2010	Kingshighway	Mario Capriolini
2011	Win Win	Leo Poplar
2012	Asleep at the Wheel	Judge	Pre-production
2013	See You Tomorrow	Mario Palagonia
2013	Tom in America	Michael	Post-production
2014	Rob the Mob	Joey D

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1969	The Doctors	Bartender	Episode #1785 10/10/1969
1973	The Connection	Ernie	TV movie
1973	M*A*S*H (1973)	Lieutenant Willis	Episode: "L.I.P. (Local Indigenous Personnel)"
1974	The Great Niagara	Ace Tully	TV movie
1975	Hustling	Gustavino	TV movie
1976	The Rockford Files	Stuart Gaily	Episode: "The Family Hour"
1975-1976	Baretta	Johnny Checco	3 episodes
1976	Serpico	Alec Rosen	Episode: "The Deadly Game"
1976	Woman of the Year	Ralph Rodino	TV movie
1978	Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This	Rocco Agnelli	TV movie
1980	Murder Can Hurt You	Lt. Palumbo	TV movie
1983	You and Me Kid		TV series
1984	Miami Vice	Lupo Ramirez	Episode: "Give a Little, Take a Little"
1985	A Summer to Remember	Fidel Fargo	TV movie
1985	The Equalizer	Louie Ganucci	Episode: "The Confirmation Day"
1986	The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Ed Fratus	Episode 1x23, "Road Hog"
1987	Roomies	Nick Chase	8 episodes
1990	Vendetta: Secrets of a Mafia Bride	Vincent Dominici	TV miniseries
1992	The Final Contract		TV movie
1992	Tales from the Crypt	Gambler	Episode: "Split Personality"
1993	Double Deception	Zimmer	TV movie
1994	Columbo	Mo Weinberg	Episode: "Undercover"
1994	Crocodile Shoes	Lou Benedetti	TV miniseries
1995	Bless This House	Mr. Riveto	Episode: "The Postman Always Moves Twice"
1996-1997	Walker, Texas Ranger	Jack "Soldier" Belmont	2 episodes
1997	The Last Don	Virginio Ballazzo	TV miniseries
1997	Law & Order	Lewis Darnell	Episode: "Mad Dog"
1997	Before Women Had Wings	Louis Ippolito	TV movie
1998	Greener Fields	Gallagher	TV movie
2001	The Sopranos	Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri, Sr.	Episode: "Another Toothpick"
2002	Alternate Realities	Frank	TV series
2003	The Handler	Dino Mantoni	Episode: "Bruno Comes Back"
2009	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Eddy Mack	Episode: "Snatched"
2013	Baciamo le mani - Palermo New York 1958	Gillo Draghi	TV miniseries (Italian)
2016	Horace and Pete	Horace Sr.	Web mini-series, Episode #1.10

Other

Young participated in the 1984 New York City Marathon.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]