Talk:Robert Young (actor)

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The link i have used takes the reader to the obituary where there is another link to the full list of credits for Robert Young. Is there a copyright problem if the full list were to be cut and pasted to the article?

Lists are not copyrightable, as long as it's only a list and not commentary. Be sure to make its format clean, though. -- Zoe

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Free categories is about his dead! I think that it is bad solution.--Vojvodaeist 18:28, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm not a doctor

Wasn't it Peter Bergman that said that and not Robert Young? 12.4.17.250 (talk) 18:57, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it was. Also, Chris Robinson. But not Robert Young, as far as I've been able to ascertain. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002541.html The article cited by Wikipedia was mistaken. See http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002541.html RY did however do commercials, for Sanka I'm removing the relevant sentaneces/citaiton --gejyspa (talk) 14:05, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

It was actually Robert Young, but he wasn't selling aspirin. The upenn URL is a messy speculation. There was an earlier problem with an actor who played a doctor doing a commercial for some sort of medication, leading to Young's initial disclaimer. He said "Hello. I'm not a doctor, although I play one on TV." He introduced himself as the actor Robert Young, then talked about the stress involved in playing Marcus Welby, MD. He then said he found it hard to sleep sometimes, until he spoke with his doctor, who recommended he calm down and drink Sanka-brand coffee, after a hard day on the set. It is quite possible there is no Youtube clip posted of this commercial. It played in 1974 over the national networks. It was significantly more memorable than the Marcus Welby, MD television show, which was torture to sit through.Hypatea (talk) 19:16, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Robert Young, The Black Camel

Robert Young did appear in the early Charlie Chan film, The Black Camel, as mentioned in his Wiki bio, however the picture was made for Fox, and filmed in Hawaii, and not Young's then new home studio MGM. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Telegonus (talk • contribs) 08:56, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

"Western Union"

Young had major roles in "Northwest Passage" and "Western Union", two top-notch "A" films--I really don't know why he considered himself to be a "victim" of the studio system. "Western Union" is one of the best westerns ever made. By the way, the final shoot-out scene with Young in "Western Union" was later copied exactly by John Ford in the shoot-out scene between Lee Marvin and James Stewart in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence". 63.192.100.101 (talk) 21:53, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Indeed, Robert Young did nicely by the studio system, including his home studio, which never sought to promote him as a potential superstar as his work didn't seem to warrant that kind of PR. At his level, as a second stringer but not B player, he did nicely at Metro and elsewhere, and indeed Western Union was a good loan-out for him, as was Claudia, two years later, featuring newcomer Dorothy McGuire, adapted froma sure-fire hit play. The kinds of top quality roles he failed to get at MGM he often did get elsewhere; and after he quit the studio he prospered as a freelance till he went into television in 1954 with the Father Knows Best series. Young had a good run in feature films, for over twenty years. He made a good living and appeared in some fine, even classic films. His unhappiness, I sense, came from his personal life, plagued his alcholism and depression. The studio system treated him just fine.

JB

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