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- Nedrick Young was born on March 23, 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Defiant Ones (1958), Inherit the Wind (1960) and Gun Crazy (1950). He was married to Elizabeth MacRae and Frances Sage. He died on September 16, 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpousesElizabeth MacRae(May 8, 1965 - September 16, 1968) (his death)Frances Sage(April 13, 1945 - January 7, 1963) (her death)
- ChildrenElizabeth EpsteinJames Michael Epstein
- Served in the US Army during World War II.
- In between acting and screenwriting, Young was variously employed in a tool firm, as a luggage salesman, a garbage collector and as a bartender for $60 a week (as a writer for Warners he had made ten times that amount!).
- Won the Oscar for best screenplay (The Defiant Ones (1958)) under the pseudonymous Nathan E. Douglas after being blacklisted for invoking his Fifth Amendment rights while testifying before the 1953 House Committee on Un-American Activities.
- In the late 1940s he was an actor under contract to Warner Brothers.
- Second husband of Elizabeth MacRae.
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