Nicholas Young

Educated at preparatory school followed by The Corona Stage School, Nicholas Young was already in his early 20s when he auditioned for the role of "John" in The Tomorrow People (1973). Prior to landing the role, he appeared in The Children's Film Foundation production Eagle Rock (1964), the little-remembered television series The Flying Swan (1965) and Front Page Story (1965), Upstairs, Downstairs (1971) and a number of one-off television plays including The Wednesday Play: The Connoisseur (1966), directed by Waris Hussein (whose credits include the first ever Doctor Who). In addition, while working on The Tomorrow People he featured in the two-part Space: 1999 (1975) story The Bringers of Wonder (the first broadcast on August 4, 1977) as Peter Rockwell, and, in the same year, played alongside Jon Pertwee (the 3rd incarnation of Doctor Who) as a young gangster called Legs Luigi in the film Adventures of a Private Eye (1977).