Tony Young

Tony Young was an American film and television actor who started out in 1959 on the western series Fury. Born Carleton Leonard Young in New York to an actor father, he moved with his family to Hollywood and studied drama and play management at Los Angeles City College, then served in the Air Force, writing, directing and producing for the American Forces Network. He trained at Ben Bard's drama school after a contract with 20th Century Studios, made his film debut in Walk Like a Dragon in 1960, and in 1961 played Cord, the lead in the CBS series Gunslinger. His later films included Charro! (1969), A Man Called Sledge (1970) and Play It as It Lays (1972), and he guest-starred on programs such as Bonanza, Mannix and Mission: Impossible. He retired in 1993 after appearing in Quantum Leap and died in 2002.