Benny Young

Robert "Benny" Young is a Scottish film, television and stage actor.

Benny Young
Born
Robert Young
NationalityScottish
OccupationActor

In 2009, Young toured with the National Theatre of Scotland production Be Near Me.[1]

In 2013 Young appeared in the West End production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Duchess Theatre.[2]

Young appeared in the Edinburgh International Festival 2018 in the production of David Greig's Midsummer.[3]

In 2018 Young played Sir Simon Fraser in the Netflix original film Outlaw King, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2018.[4] In autumn 2023, he played Moon in the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and Pitlochry Festival Theatre production of Peter Arnott's Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape. [5]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1976Nosey DobsonPC MacLean
1981Chariots of FireRob Liddell
1981–1982MaggieColin ScottTV series
1985White NightsFlight Engineer
1985Out of AfricaMinister
1985The Girl in the PictureRon
1986CaptivePsychologist
1994Funny ManMax Taylor
2013National Theatre Live: MacbethScottish Doctor
2018Outlaw KingSir Simon Fraser
2018Wild RoseJudge
2021 ShetlandJames PérezTV series

Theatre

Year Title Role Theatre Director
1 - 5 May 2014 Love with a Capital 'L' John Reith Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Hamish Pirie
4 - 14 October 2023 Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape George Moon Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh David Greig

References

  1. "Be Near Me at the Donmar Warehouse". Archived from the original on 1 March 2009. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  2. "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui".
  3. Wyver, Kate (6 August 2018). "Midsummer review – joyful tale of wild sex and terrible hangovers". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  4. Outlaw King, retrieved 12 November 2018
  5. Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape Theatre Programme, Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh & Pitlochry Festival Theatre, September 2023


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