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name: "Nedrick Young"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "23 March 1914"
died: "16 September 1968"
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# Nedrick Young

Writer. Born 23 March 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 16 September 1968.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 23 March 1914, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Died:** 16 September 1968
- **Also known as:** Ned Young, Nathan E. Douglas
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 1 nominated)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedrick_Young, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1616820, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0949917/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69319

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Defiant Ones*](https://film.one/film/the-defiant-ones.md) (74)

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## Biography

Nedrick Young (1914–1968) was an American actor and screenwriter. He began his career as an actor in films and on the New York stage, appearing in titles including *Gun Crazy* (1950) and *House of Wax* (1953). He served in the US Army during the Second World War and held a contract with Warner Bros. in the late 1940s.

Young was blacklisted after invoking the Fifth Amendment before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1953. He wrote the story for *Jailhouse Rock* (1957) and, under the pseudonym Nathan E. Douglas, co-wrote the screenplay for *The Defiant Ones* (1958) with Harold Jacob Smith; the film won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He later received credit under his own name for the screenplay of *Inherit the Wind* (1960) and contributed to *The Train* (1964). He also acted in *Terror in a Texas Town* (1958) and *Seconds* (1966).

Young died of a heart attack in Los Angeles in 1968.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Defiant Ones* (1958), Fi1m 74, as Prison Guard — [page](https://film.one/film/the-defiant-ones.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Inherit the Wind* (1999), Screenplay
- *The Defiant Ones* (1986), Story
- *Shadow on the Land* (1968), Writer
- *Seconds* (1966), as Henry Bushman
- *The Train* (1964), Screenplay
- *Inherit the Wind* (1960), Screenplay
- *Terror in a Texas Town* (1958), as Johnny Crale
- *The Defiant Ones* (1958), as Prison Guard · Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-defiant-ones.md)
- *Jailhouse Rock* (1957), Story
- *Riding Shotgun* (1954), as Manning (uncredited)
- *The Eddie Cantor Story* (1953), as Jack
- *Crime Wave* (1953), as Gat Morgan
- *Captain Scarlett* (1953), as Pierre DuCloux
- *So This Is Love* (1953), as Harry Corbett (uncredited)
- *House of Wax* (1953), as Leon Averill (uncredited)
- *She's Back on Broadway* (1953), as Rafferty
- *The Iron Mistress* (1952), as Henri Contrecourt
- *Springfield Rifle* (1952), as Sgt. Poole (uncredited)
- *Aladdin and His Lamp* (1952), as Hassan (as Ned Young)
- *Retreat, Hell!* (1952), as Sgt. Novak
- *Inside Straight* (1951), as Accountant
- *A Lady Without Passport* (1950), as Harry Nordell
- *Love That Brute* (1950), as Rocky
- *Gun Crazy* (1950), as Dave Allister
- *Border Incident* (1949), as Happy (uncredited)
- *Calamity Jane and Sam Bass* (1949), as Parsons
- *Rusty Leads the Way* (1948), Story
- *The Gallant Blade* (1948), as Sgt. Martine
- *The Swordsman* (1948), as Bruce Glowan
- *Joe Palooka in the Knockout* (1947), Screenplay
- *Unexpected Guest* (1947), as Ralph Baxter
- *The Devil's Playground* (1946), as Curly Evans (as Ned Young)
- *Decoy* (1946), Screenplay
- *Gay Blades* (1946), as Gary Lester
- *Dead Men Walk* (1943), as David Bently
- *Ladies' Day* (1943), as Tony D'Angelo
- *Bombs Over Burma* (1942), as Slim Jenkins

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- 1961: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Inherit the Wind*
- 1959: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (won), for *The Defiant Ones*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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