Young also appeared in four movies in four straight years with fellow Queens guy James Caan - Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Gambler (1974), The Killer Elite (1975) and Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976) - before they worked together again in Mickey Blue Eyes (1999).
Fischer, 'Murder, She Wrote' Co-Creator and 'Columbo' Writer, Dies at 88 8 in Los Angeles, his daughter, Anne Morea Steingieser, told The New York Times on Wednesday.Ī tough guy in real life who usually played tough guys onscreen, Young portrayed a rotten client of gumshoe Jack Nicholson’s in Chinatown (1974), was mobster “Bed Bug” Eddie in The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) and played Rodney Dangerfield’s protector/chauffeur Lou in Back to School (1986). Burt Young, a former boxer who was in Sylvester Stallone‘s corner as his brother-in-law Paulie in the six Rocky films and received a supporting actor Oscar nomination for his turn in the original, has died.
