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Burt Young served in the Marines in the 1950s and later studied at Lee Strasberg\u2019s Actors Studio. At one time a professional boxer, he went 14-0 and even spared with Muhammad Ali for charity.<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Burt Young<\/a>, a onetime prizefighter from New York City known for playing tough guys in dozens of movies and TV shows \u2014 who became a fixture of the\u00a0Rocky<\/em><\/a> franchise with his Oscar-nominated portrayal of trainer Paulie Pennino \u2014 died at 83 on Oct. 8 in L.A. of unspecified causes.Born Gerald Tommaso DeLouise on April 30, 1940, in Queens, Young dropped out of school at age 15 and joined the Marines. A true boxing aficionado, Young also appeared in 14 professional boxing matches, all of which he won. He also boxed with legend Muhammad Ali for charity (the two became good friends).Young began his acting career taking dramatic arts training under the legendary\u00a0Lee Strasberg<\/a>\u00a0at the Actors Studio. Initially Young reached out to Strasberg in an attempt to impress a young woman. Years later in an interview with the\u00a0New York Observer<\/em>, Strasberg called him an \u201cemotional library.\u201dYoung had a knack for making subtle, unexpected choices, where oftentimes his eyes did most of the talking. \u201cHe has the guts, which very few people have,\u201d said the late\u00a0James Caan<\/a>, his co-star in films including\u00a0Cinderella Liberty<\/em>\u00a0(1973) and\u00a0The Killer Elite<\/em> (1975).\u201cBurt was an actor of tremendous emotional range,\u201d his manager, Lynda Bensky, said in a statement. \u201cHe could make you cry and he could scare you to death. But the real pathos that I experienced was the poignancy of his soul. That\u2019s where it came from.\u201dAs Paulie, Young was \u201cdefeated and resentful, loyal and bitter, caring about people enough to hurt them just to draw attention to his grief,\u201d\u00a0wrote the late film critic Roger Ebert<\/a>. But in\u00a0Rocky IV<\/em>, his emotions are laid bare in what is perhaps his best scene in the pugilistic franchise:<\/p>\n

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