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Otis E. Young (July 4, 1932 in Providence, Rhode Island – October 11, 2001) was an African-American actor,writer and anti-Veitnam war activist. Young was the second African-American actor to co-star in a television Western, The Outcasts (1968–1969), with Don Murray, the first being Raymond St Jacques who co-starred on the final season of Rawhide in 1965, as cattle driver Simon Blake. Young played another memorable role as Jack Nicholson's shore-patrol partner in the 1973 comedy-drama film The Last Detail. Young, one of 14 children, joined the U.S. Marine Corps at the age of 17 and... MORE

Otis E. Young (July 4, 1932 in Providence, Rhode Island – October 11, 2001) was an African-American actor,writer and anti-Veitnam war activist. Young was the second African-American actor to co-star in a television Western, The Outcasts (1968–1969), with Don Murray, the first being Raymond St Jacques who co-starred on the final season of Rawhide in 1965, as cattle driver Simon Blake. Young played another memorable role as Jack Nicholson's shore-patrol partner in the 1973 comedy-drama film The Last Detail. Young, one of 14 children, joined the U.S. Marine Corps at the age of 17 and served in the Korean War. He then enrolled in acting classes at New York University School of Education where his classmate was the young Louis Gossett, Jr.. He trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and worked off-Broadway as an actor and writer in the early 1960s. (He appeared on Broadway in James Baldwin's "Blues for Mr. Charlie," with such notables as Diana Sands, and Al Freeman, Jr..) His first movie appearance was in Murder in Mississippi (1965). In 1983 Young earned his bachelor's degree from L. I. F. E. Bible College in Los Angeles and became an ordained pastor, eventually serving as senior pastor LESS