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Benny Young

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Benny Young
Born
Robert Young
NationalityScottish
OccupationActor

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

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

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Year Title Role Notes
1976 Nosey Dobson PC MacLean
1981 Chariots of Fire Rob Liddell
1981–1982 Maggie Colin Scott TV series
1985 White Nights Flight Engineer
1985 Out of Africa Minister
1985 The Girl in the Picture Ron
1986 Captive Psychologist
1994 Funny Man Max Taylor
2013 National Theatre Live: Macbeth Scottish Doctor
2018 Outlaw King Sir Simon Fraser
2018 Wild Rose Judge
2021 Shetland James Pérez TV series

Theatre

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

References

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  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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