Robert "Benny" Young is a Scottish film, television and stage actor.
In 2009, Young toured with the National Theatre of Scotland production Be Near Me.
In 2013 Young appeared in the West End production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Duchess Theatre.
Young appeared in the Edinburgh International Festival 2018 in the production of David Greig's Midsummer.
In 2018 Young played Sir Simon Fraser in the Netflix original film Outlaw King, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2018. In autumn 2023, he played Moon in the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and Pitlochry Festival Theatre production of Peter Arnott's Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape. Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape Theatre Programme, Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh & Pitlochry Festival Theatre, September 2023
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1976 Nosey Dobson PC MacLean 1981 Chariots of Fire Rob Liddell 1981–1982 Maggie Colin Scott TV series1985 White Nights Flight Engineer 1985 Out of Africa Minister 1985 The Girl in the Picture Ron 1986 Captive Psychologist 1994 Funny Man Max Taylor 2013 National Theatre Live: Macbeth Scottish Doctor 2018 Outlaw King Sir Simon Fraser 2018 Wild Rose Judge 2021 Shetland James Pérez TV series
Theatre +Year Title Role Theatre DirectorNotes 1 - 5 May 2014 Love with a Capital 'L'''|| John Reith ||Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh ||Hamish Pirie || play by Tony Cox |- |4 - 14 October 2023 || Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape || |Moon || Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh |David Greig || play by Peter Arnott |- | 5 March - 3 May 2025 || Death of a Salesman'' Charley Trafalgar Theatre Andy Arnold play by Arthur Miller
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