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collection, such as Board of Directors and Delegates Dinner menus, NCAFP histories, and a
collection of over 600 slides. Also separated are numerous photographs that depict AAFP leaders,
meetings, and activities.
Young, Robert (a/k/a/ “Marcus Welby, M.D.”) (1907-1998)
1970-1971
1 slim document case – See also: Audio-Visual Collection; Oversized Collection; and
Photograph Collection
Robert George Young was an American actor, best known for his roles as Jim Anderson, the father
of Father Knows Best (NBC and then CBS) and as physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D.
(ABC). Born in Chicago in 1907, Young graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Los
Angeles in 1925, and made his professional acting debut in Hollywood in the 1931 MGM film Black
Camel. He subsequently appeared in 100 movies in a film career that spanned from 1931 to 1952.
He is best known however, for his role in the television series Father Knows Best (1949-1954 on
radio, 1954-1960 on television), for which he and his co-star, Jane Wyatt, won several Emmy
Awards. Young later became equally famous for portraying the fatherly general practitioner Marcus
Welby, M.D, in the television series of the same name, which ran from 1969 to 1976. This series,
(for which Young won an Emmy for best leading actor in a drama series in 1970 and a Golden Globe
Award in 1972) was produced in cooperation with the AAFP. After the Marcus Welby, M.D.
television series ended its run in 1976 after a total of 169 episodes, Young reprised the role in two
made for TV movies, The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D. (1984) and Marcus Welby, M.D.: A
Holiday Affair (1988). Young died at his home in Westlake Village, California in 1998 at the age of
91.
The Robert Young Collection contains two press kits on the “Marcus Welby, M.D.” television series
which include news releases, photographs, facts sheets and other materials on the series.
Young, Robert S., M.D. (1923-1998)
1983-1987
1 slim document case – See also: Photograph Collection
Robert S. Young, M.D. was born in 1923 in Loudonville, Ohio. From 1948 to 1987 he was a family
practitioner in Johnstown, Ohio. He served as AAFP treasurer from 1983 to 1987 and was a member
of the AAFP Board of Directors from 1978 to 1981. From 1970 to 1971, he served as president of
the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians. As a leader within the Ohio AFP for many years, Dr.
Young’s accomplishments include helping to obtain state line-item funding for family practice
departments and residencies. He was the key force in convincing the 1973-74 Ohio General
Assembly to pass a bill which not only funded training for undergraduates and graduates, but also
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