Personal Info
Birth date
1956-04-22 (69 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Wilmette, Illinois, USA
Also known as
Bruce Young
Bruce Arnold Young
Bruce A. Young
Biography
Bruce A. Young (born April 22, 1956) is an American television and film actor who is perhaps best known for his role as Capt. Simon Banks in the UPN sci-fi police drama The Sentinel. He also played mercenary M.B. Nash in Jurassic Park III. In addition, he played the character of Moselle, a pool player who loses to Vince (played by Tom Cruise), in The Color of Money. His other film and television credits include Basic Instinct, Into Temptation, E/R, Highlander: The Series, Quantum Leap, NYPD Blue, Undisputed, Cold Case, Ghost Whisperer, Risky Business, Grey's Anatomy and Prison Break. Another notable role Young played was a self-defense instructor in the movie "Enough". Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce A. Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Grey's Anatomy
8.225
Overview:
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.The X-Files
8.377
Overview:
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.Ghost Whisperer
8.077
Overview:
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.The Unit
7.3
Overview:
A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.Cold Case
7.774
Overview:
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.Diagnosis: Murder
7.071
Overview:
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.Quantum Leap
8.031
Overview:
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.Baywatch
5.952
Overview:
Join the Baywatch lifeguards on their thrilling adventures filled with beautiful beaches and those iconic red swimsuits.21 Jump Street
7.183
Overview:
21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.Highlander: The Series
7.407
Overview:
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.Viper
6
Overview:
Viper is an action-adventure TV series about a special task force set up by the federal government to fight crime in the fictional city of Metro City, California that is perpetually under siege from one crime wave after another. The weapon used by this task force is an assault vehicle that masquerades as a Dodge Viper RT/10 roadster and coupe. The series takes place in "the near future". The primary brand of vehicles driven in the show were Chrysler or subsidiary companies. The Viper Defender "star car" was designed by Chrysler Corporation engineers. The exterior design of the car was produced by Chrysler stylist Steve Ferrerio.Out All Night
8.5
Overview:
Out All Night is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 19, 1992 to July 9, 1993 for one season. The series stars Patti LaBelle, and was created by Andy Borowitz, Susan Borowitz, and Rob Edwards.Becker
7.158
Overview:
Becker is a dedicated, outspoken and talented doctor with a gruff exterior. While he tends to offend those who try to get close to him, he is extremely dedicated to his medical practice in the Bronx, N.Y., where he always goes the extra mile to help those in need. But Dr. John Becker looks at the world around him and sees a society gone mad, full of incongruities and just plain wrong thinking. And he has no qualms about saying anything that comes to mind – anything.The Drew Carey Show
6.55
Overview:
Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with co-worker Mimi, his hobbies include drinking beer and not being able to get dates. To make a few extra bucks he has a micro-brewery going in his garage with his buddies.227
6.8
Overview:
A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her neighbors.The District
6.8
Overview:
The District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department.L.A. Law
7.1
Overview:
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.E/R
5.2
Overview:
E/R is an American television sitcom that aired in 1984 and 1985. Developed from the long running play of the same name created and produced by the Organic Theater Company under the direction of Stuart Gordon and conceived by Dr. Ronald Berman, the series was produced by Norman Lear and Embassy Television and lasted a single season. Shuko Akune and Bruce A. Young reprised their roles from the original Organic Theater Company production of the play. Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton borrowed heavily from this show in the creation of their television drama similarly entitled ER.George Clooney, a regular on this show, would later appeared in the NBC's drama.The Golden Palace
6.2
Overview:
The Golden Palace begins where The Golden Girls had ended, in the quartet's now-sold Miami house. With Dorothy Zbornak having married and left in the previous series finale, the three remaining cast members (Dorothy's mother, Sophia Petrillo, Rose Nylund, and Blanche Devereaux) decide to invest in a Miami hotel that is up for sale. The hotel, however, is revealed to have been stripped of all of its personnel in an effort to appear more profitable, leaving only two employees: Roland Wilson, the hotel's manager, and Chuy Castillos, the hotel's chef. This requires the women to perform all the tasks of the hotel's staff.The Guardian
6.8
Overview:
Nick Fallin is a hotshot lawyer working at his father's ultrasuccessful Pittsburgh law firm. Unfortunately, the high life has gotten the best of Nick. Arrested for drug use, he's sentenced to do 1,500 hours of community service, somehow to be squeezed into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions and board meetings. Reluctantly, he's now The Guardian - a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of kids caught up in difficult circumstances.The Sentinel
7.1
Overview:
The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg works side by side with Jim, helping him develop these senses.Family Law
8.2
Overview:
Family attorney and mom Lynn Holt has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together since her husband left her and took most of their joint law practice with him. Although the attorneys are carting plenty of life's baggage, they're all determined to make the most of this unexpected second chance—and make each month's mortgage payment.Basic Instinct
6.933
Overview:
Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
6.489
Overview:
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.Home on the Range
6.054
Overview:
When a greedy outlaw schemes to take possession of the "Patch Of Heaven" dairy farm, three determined cows, a karate-kicking stallion and a colorful corral of critters join forces to save their home. The stakes are sky-high as this unlikely animal alliance risk their hides and match wits with a mysterious band of bad guys.Hot Shots!
6.6
Overview:
The gang that created Airplane and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this often hilarious spoof starring Charlie Sheen, who previously only inspired laughs with his personal life. He plays Topper Harley, a fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. He gets involved in a relationship with Valerie Golino, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. But his mission is to avenge his father. Lloyd Bridges, late in his career, revealed an aptitude for this kind of silliness, here as a commander who is both incredibly dim and delightfully accident prone. Directed by Jim Abrahams, the film makes fun of a variety of other films as well, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys. It was so successful that they all returned in the sequel, Hot Shots! Part Deux.Undisputed
6.511
Overview:
Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. When these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.Cop Rock
4
Overview:
Cop Rock is an Emmy Award-winning American musical police drama series that aired on ABC in 1990. The show, a police drama presented as a musical, was co-created by Steven Bochco, who also served as executive producer. TV Guide ranked it #8 on TV Guide's List of the 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list in 2002. The periodical dubbed it "the single most bizarre TV musical of all time."Acting
2021Water by the Spoonful as Chutes & Ladders, aka Clayton “Buddy” Wilkie
2017Renegades: The Requiem: Part 1 as Admiral Armstrong
2009Into Temptation as Lloyd Montag
2006Love Is the Drug as Phill hackwith
2006Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Diff'rent Strokes' as Willie Coleman
2006The Unit (1 Episode) as Dr. Jimmy Willey
2005Ghost Whisperer (1 Episode) as Chad West
2005Edmond as Policeman
2005Grey's Anatomy (1 Episode) as Tom Maynard
2004Home on the Range as Additional voices (voice)
2003Cold Case (1 Episode) as Daryl Booker
2002Ticker as Bodyguard
2002Undisputed as Charles Soward
2002Enough as Self-Defense Instructor
2001The Guardian (2 Episodes) as Albert Gregg
2001Jurassic Park III as Nash
2000The District (1 Episode) as Carl Orchard
1999Santa and Pete as Manuel Dangola
1999Family Law (1 Episode) as Judge Leon Carter
1999Angel on Abbey Street as Muskat
1998Becker (1 Episode) as Officer Matlin
1996Phenomenon as Jack Hatch
1996The Sentinel (65 Episodes) as Simon Banks
1996Normal Life as Agent Parker
1995The Drew Carey Show (1 Episode) as Simon Nicholas
1995The Tie That Binds as Gil Chandler
1994The War as Moe Henry
1994Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult as Tyrone (uncredited)
1994Pointman as O.C.
1994In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance as Jamieson
1994Viper (2 Episodes) as Administrator
1993Diagnosis: Murder (1 Episode) as The rapper
1993Blink as Lt. Mitchell
1993The X-Files (1 Episode) as Pierre Beauvais
1992Trespass as Raymond
1992Highlander: The Series (2 Episodes) as Carl Robinson
1992Out All Night (1 Episode) as Otis Carswell
1992The Golden Palace (1 Episode) as George Wilson
1992Basic Instinct as Andrews
1992She Woke Up as Det. Burke Harris
1991Hot Shots! as 'Red' Herring
1991Eddie Dodd (1 Episode) as Unknown
1991What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Dominik
1990Cop Rock (1 Episode) as Unknown
1990Max Monroe: Loose Cannon (8 Episodes) as Unknown
1989Making a Case for Murder as Unknown
1989An Innocent Man as Jingles
1989Baywatch (1 Episode) as Unknown
1989Quantum Leap (1 Episode) as Butch
1987The Father Clements Story as Unknown
19873 On a Match as Andy 'Ripper' Pierce
198721 Jump Street (2 Episodes) as Sgt. James Adabo
1986The Color of Money as Moselle
1986L.A. Law (1 Episode) as Edward Rice
1986Nothing in Common as Gene
1985Lady Blue (14 Episodes) as Cassidy
1985227 (1 Episode) as Unknown
1984E/R (22 Episodes) as Fred Burdock
1983Heart of Steel as Louie
1983Risky Business as Jackie
1982Will: G. Gordon Liddy as Unknown
1981Thief as Mechanic #2
Writing
1996The Dark Mist ... Screenplay