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Heather Young

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Portrays:	Lollipop star
Date of Birth:	April 01,1945
Date of Death:	Missing required parameter 1=month!
Age:	81
Nationality:	USA
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Heather Young (born Patricia Kay Paterson, April 1, 1945, Bremerton, Washington) is an American actress who portrayed the Lollipop star in Galactica 1980's "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II". She is best known for her two-season role as stewardess Betty Ann Hamilton in Irwin Allen's science fiction series Land of the Giants (1968–1970), where she co-starred with then-child actor Stefan Arngrim.

Career

Young was born in Bremerton, Washington, the eldest of five children, with three sisters and one brother. Her father, Melvin Paterson, was a civil engineer who relocated frequently for work; Young attended schools in Riverton, Wyoming; Tacoma Park, Maryland; and Rolla, Missouri, before spending three years at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Her early ambitions were toward nursing or physical therapy, but her involvement with the Mormon Church steered her toward singing. After a summer performing at Disneyland, she contacted 20th Century Fox, which signed her as one of its last contract players and changed her screen name to Heather Young.

In 1967, Young accumulated several television credits under the Fox contract: she appeared in the Batman two-parter "The Contaminated Cowl"/"The Mad Hatter Runs Afoul" as the American telephone operator, in "Tempest in a Texas Town" on Judd for the Defense as Terry Ann Brendler, and in "Kiss Me, Kill You" on The Felony Squad as Aggie Sloan. She also appeared briefly as the girl with the megaphone in the Fox theatrical comedy A Guide for the Married Man (1967) and guest starred as Joan in "Town of Terror," the final episode of Irwin Allen's The Time Tunnel (1967).

Allen subsequently cast Young as stewardess Betty Ann Hamilton in Land of the Giants, which ran for 51 episodes over two seasons from 1968 to 1970. She had no particular interest in science fiction and was not fully comfortable in the role, but her Fox contract gave her little room to decline; Allen had selected her specifically because she remained under contract. Filming of the second season was complicated by her pregnancy; she was frequently photographed from the waist up or written out of episodes, and her first child was born in August 1969.

After Land of the Giants was cancelled, Young remained in Hollywood and took on a few more television roles, including guest appearances in Insight (1969–1970) alongside former Land of the Giants guest actors Paul Carr and John Marley. She appeared as LuAnn, a student nurse, in the television pilot Oh, Nurse (1972).

In 1980, Young returned to Hollywood for a guest appearance in Galactica 1980's "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II", billed in the credits as "Star." In the episode, Captain Troy and Lieutenant Dillon, ducking into a theater to evade pursuing police, are mistakenly pressed into performing onstage in a production of "Good Ship Lollipop." Young's character, the star of the production, performs "On the Good Ship Lollipop", wearing a blond wig styled in "Shirley Temple" ringlets, before Troy and Dillon activate their invisibility fields and carry her offstage.

After this appearance, Young did not return to on-screen acting. She continued singing and writing, completing two full-length stage musicals and children's shows under the pseudonym Heather York.

Personal life

On June 14, 1968, Young married David Youkstetter, who worked in the aerospace industry, in a ceremony at the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City. During the 1970s the couple relocated to Utah, where Young concentrated on raising their children.

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