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Young began his career in the 1950s, in documentary production for educational markets. He innovated underwater filming techniques and co-directed and co-shot a successful 1957 series called Secrets of the Reef. Eventually he landed at NBC News, directing and shooting.
Early life and education. Robert Milton Young was born in New York City on November 22, 1924. His father was a cameraman who later owned a film laboratory. Robert began college at MIT to become a chemical engineer.
Mr. Young grew up on Long Island, graduated from high school at 15, and at 18 left M.I.T. to enlist in the Navy. While in the service, he decided he wanted to become a film maker, and now...
Bob Young started out in the 1950s making educational films and documentaries such as Secrets of the Reef (1956), a groundbreaker in the annals of underwater cinematography. In 1960, he landed at NBC, where he made Sit-In, an episode of the prime-time documentary series NBC White Paper focussing on civil-rights activists in the South, including ...
Charlie Bartlett is a 2007 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Jon Poll. The screenplay by Gustin Nash focuses on a teenager who begins to dispense therapeutic advice and prescription drugs to the student body at his new high school in order to become popular.
Young then swam freely outside the cage with a 35-millimeter camera, capturing remarkable close-ups of a school of swirling 12-foot-long great blue sharks, one of which tried to bite him.
His first solo feature as director was “Short Eyes” (1977), an independently-made adaptation of Miguel Piñero’s play starring Bruce Davison as an accused child rapist in a New York jail.
