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Robert "Benny" Young is a Scottish film, television and stage actor.

In 2009, Young toured with the National Theatre of Scotland production Be Near Me.^[1]

Young appeared in the Edinburgh International Festival 2018 in the production of David Greig's Midsummer.^[3]

In 2018 Young played Sir Simon Fraser in the Netflix original film Outlaw King, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2018.^[4] In autumn 2023, he played Moon in the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and Pitlochry Festival Theatre production of Peter Arnott's Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape. ^[5]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	Nosey Dobson	PC MacLean
1981	Chariots of Fire	Rob Liddell
1981–1982	Maggie	Colin Scott	TV series
1985	White Nights	Flight Engineer
1985	Out of Africa	Minister
1985	The Girl in the Picture	Ron
1986	Captive	Psychologist
1994	Funny Man	Max Taylor
2013	National Theatre Live: Macbeth	Scottish Doctor
2018	Outlaw King	Sir Simon Fraser
2018	Wild Rose	Judge
2021	Shetland	James Pérez	TV series


Year	Title	Role	Theatre	Director	Notes
1 - 5 May 2014	Love with a Capital 'L'	John Reith	Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh	Hamish Pirie	play by Tony Cox
4 - 14 October 2023	Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape	Moon	Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh	David Greig	play by Peter Arnott

^ "Be Near Me at the Donmar Warehouse". Archived from the original on 1 March 2009. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
^ "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui".
^ Wyver, Kate (6 August 2018). "Midsummer review – joyful tale of wild sex and terrible hangovers". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
^ Outlaw King, retrieved 12 November 2018
^ Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape Theatre Programme, Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh & Pitlochry Festival Theatre, September 2023