Noah Young: Roach Heavy

Feb 2, 2013

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Today is the birthday of Noah Young (1887-1958). A former champion weightlifter (rumored to be rejected from the navy because he was missing too many teeth), he began as a principal heavy for Hal Roach starting in 1918, and the list of films in which he terrorized Harold Lloyd and Laurel & Hardy is long indeed. In the talkie era he was reduced to uncredited walk-ons, the last of which was Bonnie Scotland (1935).

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