Trivia

During World War II, he was a paratrooper in the British army, and took part in the battle of Arnhem, Holland, where he was wounded. Young was transferred to a Dutch hospital, where he was nursed back to health. One of the volunteer nurses who took care of him was a 16-year-old Dutch girl named Audrey Heenstra - who became better known as Audrey Hepburn. More than 20 years later, he directed her in Seule dans la nuit (1967).

He was in a helicopter which crashed over water whilst filming Bons Baisers de Russie (1963). It trapped the director below the surface for a considerable time in an air bubble inside the copter's canopy. He was rescued and then immediately went back behind the camera with his arm in a sling.

Doubled for terminally ill actor Pedro Armendáriz in some of his long shots in Bons Baisers de Russie (1963).

In his late years, he directed a six-hour documentary on, and for, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, titled "The Long Journeys" or "The Long Days". The Portuguese given title was "Os Longos Dias" (no release year), but the film has never been screened outside Libya.

The February 6, 1985, issue of Variety announced the film "Satan and Eve" would begin filming later in 1985, in West Germany and the Seychelles, with director Terence Young, star Orson Welles. No evidence the film was ever made or released.

Directed one Oscar-nominated performance: Audrey Hepburn in Seule dans la nuit (1967).

He was asked to direct Jamais plus jamais (1983), but declined.

He didn't direct Goldfinger (1964) due to a pay dispute that saw him denied a percentage of the film's profits. He directed Les aventures amoureuses de Moll Flanders (1965) instead.

He was asked to direct Rien que pour vos yeux (1981), but he was busy working on Inchon (1981).

Directed his wife Dorothea Bennett's novel La taupe (1983).