Eric Wing Wah Yung (Chinese: 容榮華; pinyin: Róng Rónghuá born 1944), better known as Ric Young, is a Malaysian retired actor. He appeared in over 100 films and television programmes from his debut in 1958, mainly in the United Kingdom and later the United States.
Young was a series regular on spy action television series Alias (2001–04), playing Dr. Zhang Lee. He appeared in such films as You Only Live Twice (1967), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), The Last Emperor (1987), Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993), Nixon (1995), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), The Transporter (2002), and American Gangster (2007).
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Early life
A Malaysian Chinese, Young was born Wing-Wah Yung (容榮華) in Kuala Lumpur in 1944. He got his start taking part in radio sketches at the age of 12. He trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, under a King George VI Coronation Scholarship. He then moved to Los Angeles to study method acting under Shelley Winters and Lee Strasberg.
