12 Facts About Otis Young

Otis Young co-starred in a television Western, The Outcasts, with Don Murray.

Otis Young played another memorable role as Jack Nicholson's shore patrol partner Richard "Mule" Mulhall in the 1973 comedy-drama film The Last Detail, and his later film credits included the low budget horror films The Capture of Bigfoot and Blood Beach.

Otis Young was born in Providence, Rhode Island, one of 14 children.

Otis Young joined the US Marine Corps at the age of 17 and served in the Korean War.

Otis Young then enrolled in acting classes at New York University School of Education where one of his classmates was the young Louis Gossett Jr.

Otis Young trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse and worked off-Broadway as an actor and writer in the early 1960s.

Otis Young appeared on Broadway in James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie, with such notables as Diana Sands, and Al Freeman, Jr.

On television, Otis Young portrayed Jemal David, a former slave, in the ABC western The Outcasts.

Otis Young studied theology at LIFE Bible College in Los Angeles and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1983.

Otis Young taught acting classes at School Without Walls, a college-like alternative public high school in Rochester, from 1987 through 1991.

Otis Young suffered a stroke in Los Angeles and died on October 12,2001, aged 69, at the Veterans Hospital.

Otis Young was survived by his wife, Barbara, and two sons, two daughters and mother, Gwendolyn.