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Producer. Actor. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Collier Young was born on 19 August 1908 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for One Step Beyond (1959), The Hitch-Hiker (1953) and Never Fear (1950). He was married to Marjory Ann Marsh, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino and Ruth Valerie Edmonds.
- Writer, Producer, Actor
- August 19, 1908
- Collier Young
- December 25, 1980
Mini Bio. Collier Young was born on August 19, 1908 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for One Step Beyond (1959), The Hitch-Hiker (1953) and Never Fear (1950). He was married to Marjory Ann Marsh, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino and Ruth Valerie Edmonds.
- August 19, 1908
- December 25, 1980
- Biography
- Hollywood Actress
- Hollywood Director
- Television Career
- Personal
Ida suffered from polio as a child but made a full recovery. She was interested in acting and the theater from an early age and is reputed to have written and produced her first play, called "Mademoiselle", at age seven, acting in a highly detailed model theatre built by her father. Both her parents and her uncle, Lupino Lane, encouraged Ida to ent...
She began to receive stronger roles in a series of melodramas for Warner Brothers during the 1940's, including 'They Drive By Night' in 1940, and 'High Sierra' in 1941, both with Humphrey Bogart, 'The Sea Wolf' in 1941, 'The Hard Way' in 1942, for which she won a New York Film Critics award, 'The Man I Love' in 1946 and 'Deep Valley' the following ...
Her first directing job came by accident in 1949 when she stepped in to finish 'Not Wanted', which she also co-wrote, replacing the existing director, Elmer Clifton when he became ill three days into shooting. Her officially credited directorial debut followed in the same year when she made 'Never Fear' about a dancer stricken with polio. She got t...
The most notable of her later motion-picture performances came in 'Junior Bonner' in 1972 and her last screen appearance was in 'My Boys Are Good Boys' in 1978 after which she retired from acting, aged 60.
Ida Lupino died in Los Angeles on 3 August, 1995 from a stroke while undergoing treatment for colon cancer. She was 77 years old. She was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. She was one of the most underrated actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age but will be remembered primarily as one of Hollywood's pioneers. Fo...
1968. Split Second to an Epitaph …. Creator. Collier Young is known as an Producer, Creator, Screenplay, Writer, Story, and Actor. Some of his work includes The Hitch-Hiker, The Bigamist, Ironside, Outrage, Private Hell 36, Beware, My Lovely, Never Fear, and Hard, Fast and Beautiful.
Feb 16, 2018 · After the making the leap and directing the 1949 independent film “Not Wanted,” Lupino and her then-husband, producer Collier Young, started a production company and planned to focus on ...
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Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95. Studio: Kino Lorber. Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy and William Talman hit the road in The Hitch-Hiker. Directed and co-written by actress Ida Lupino ( Private Hell 36 ), 1953’s The Hitch-Hiker is the only classic film noir crime drama to be helmed by a woman.
Collier Hudson Young (August 19, 1908 – December 25, 1980) was an American film producer and writer, who worked on many films in the 1950s, before becoming a television producer for such shows as NBC's Ironside and CBS's The Wild, Wild West, as well as the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond (1959–61).
