Curiosidades

In 1972, while returning to Los Angeles from San Francisco, he was among the passengers on a PSA airliner hijacked by two Bulgarians demanding ransom and passage to Siberia. Yung and another passenger were wounded. A third passenger and the two hijackers were killed when FBI agents stormed the plane on the ground in San Francisco.

He majored in animal husbandry at the College of Agriculture at the University of California, Berkeley, and has a memorial scholarship named after him, awarded each year by the Chinese Alumni Association.

Perhaps more familiar to TV audiences as Hop Sing, the ranch cook, in Bonanza (1959).

Was an accomplished Cantonese cook and penned the book "Great Wok Cookbook" in 1974.

Played the role of "Number Two Son" in 25 Charlie Chan films during the late 1930s and most of the 1940s; his comedic character was alternately named James, Jimmy, or Tommy Chan.

His son, Brent Kee Young, is an accomplished glass artist, and a professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA).

Served in the US Army Air Forces during World War II, first making training films at the First Motion Picture Unit, then as a member of the cast of "Winged Victory," the Air Forces' theatrical play and film (as Sgt. Victor Young). He then requested officer training and apparently reached the rank of captain.

Died of natural-gas poisoning in his home. Though his body was discovered on 11/10/80, the coroner's office determined he had been dead approximately ten days, putting his actual date of death at about 11/1/80.

Remembered as "No. 2 Son," Jimmy Chan, in Sidney Toler's Charlie Chan movies of the 1930s and '40s.