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- Birth namePatricia Kay Paterson
- Heather Young is best known for her regular role as "Betty Hamilton" in the sci-fi two-season cult series, Land of the Giants (1968), produced by Irwin Allen.
She also appeared in one episode, Town of Terror (1967), of another Irwin Allen sci-fi cult series, The Time Tunnel (1966).
With this sort of history, you would expect Young to have a love of sci-fi, but this is not the case at all, she got these roles because she was one of the last 20th Century Fox contract players and Irwin Allen selected her for this reason.
As well as not being not totally comfortable with Land of the Giants (1968), she never really got a lot to do in the series, however this problem was addressed by series co-star Don Matheson (as explained in the "Land of the Giants" DVD set). Matheson would simply hand some of his lines to Young to give her more to do.
Perhaps she looked most at home in the second season episode, titled The Marionettes (1970). In this episode, Betty helped out a kind giant circus guy, by acting as a singing dancing marionette, to replace a real marionette.
In 1995, the entire living Land of the Giants (1968) cast was interviewed on The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (1995) TV show, but Young was oddly missing.- IMDb Mini Biography By: StuOz
- SpouseDavid Youkstetter(June 14, 1968 - August 31, 2016) (his death, 5 children)
- Was pregnant during much of the second season of Land of the Giants (1968) and had to either be filmed mostly from the waist up or was written out of several episodes altogether.
- In 1967 Heather signed with 20th Century Fox who changed her screen name to Heather Young.
- Heather wrote a stage musical "Jane Eyre" and used the name "Heather York" as a pseudonym.
- One of the last of the "starlet" contract players under the old contract system at 20th Century-Fox that ended in the late '60s.
- Attended Brigham Young University. She did not complete her studies there but in 1966, she was discovered on campus by Harry Sokolov of Twentieth Century Fox, who heard her sing songs from The Sound of Music. He recommended that she call Fox if she ever visited Hollywood. After a summer singing at Disneyland, she called the studio and was signed to a contract.
- [The Record, Hackensack, NJ, Sunday, May 18, 1969, regarding polygamy in the Mormon Church] If multiple marriage were still church practice, I could accept it. I don't think there's anything wrong with the idea. King David had several wives. So did King Solomon. I've heard young Mormon couples say they couldn't even think of such a thing, but I believe the majority would do it if the Prophet said they should.
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