Robert Young's Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds

In the record

Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American film, television, and radio actor best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father character, in Father Knows Best (CBS, then NBC, then CBS again) and the physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC). The birth-card coordinate for February 22 is the 3 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1958 Lead performer (pre-genre split) (Father Knows Best); 1970 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Marcus Welby, M.D.) win.

Primetime Emmy Lead record

• 1958 Lead performer (pre-genre split) — Father Knows Best as Jim Anderson (pre genre split)
• 1970 Lead Actor in a Drama Series — Marcus Welby, M.D. as Dr. Marcus Welby

The 3 of Diamonds coordinate

Robert Young's birthday maps to the 3 of Diamonds (The Success Communicator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Emmy and not a verdict on Robert Young. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You keep more than one path alive without letting any of them stay imaginary.

Live 3 of Diamonds meaning page

Robert Young in the public record

Young was born in Chicago, the son of an Irish immigrant father, Thomas E. Young, and an American mother, Margaret Fyfe. While Young was a child, the family moved to various locations within the U.S., including Seattle, and Los Angeles, where Young was a student at Abraham Lincoln High School. After graduation, he studied and performed at the Pasadena Playhouse while working odd jobs and appearing in bit parts in silent films. While touring with a stock company producing "The Ship", Young was discovered by a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talent scout who signed the fledgling actor to a contract. Young made his sound film debut for Fox Film Corporation in the 1931 Charlie Chan film Black Camel, starring Warner Oland. Young appeared in over 100 films between 1928 and 1952. In spite of having a "tier B" status, he co-starred with some of the studio's most illustrious actresses, such as Katharine Hepburn, Margaret Sullavan, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Susan Hayward, Dorothy McGuire, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, Hedy Lamarr, Helen Twelvetrees and (unrelated) Loretta Young.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Robert Young (actor) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Queen of Diamonds

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Robert Young, and not a forecast of an Emmy.

You protect what you have without making every dollar a referendum on safety. You create material security and abundance for those around you. You're generous, nurturing, and capable. You make others feel materially safe.

Young's career had begun an incremental and almost imperceptible decline, despite a propitious beginning as a freelance actor without the nurturing of a major studio.

Paired on shared wording: nurturing, without.

Also on the record

1. Most of his assignments consisted of short B movies, also known as "programmers," which required brief two- to three-week shooting schedules.
2. Actors who were relegated to such hectic routines appeared, as Young did, in some six to eight movies per year.
3. As an MGM contract player, Young was obligated to accept any film assigned to him or risk being placed on suspension—and many actors who were placed on suspension were prohibited from earning a salary from any endeavor at all, even those unrelated to the film industry.
4. In 1936, MGM summarily loaned Young to Gaumont British in the U.K. for two films; the first, Secret Agent, was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, while the other, It's Love Again, co-starred Jessie Matthews.

Other Emmy winners with this card

• America Ferrera — 2007 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Ugly Betty)
• Bill Cosby — 1966 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (I Spy); 1967 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (I Spy); 1968 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (I Spy)
• Eric McCormack — 2001 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Will & Grace)
• Rachel Brosnahan — 2018 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
• Sid Caesar — 1957 Lead performer (pre-genre split) (Caesar's Hour)

FAQ

What is Robert Young's birth card?

The 3 of Diamonds. February 22 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict an Emmy?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Robert Young's dates come from?

Birth date 1907-02-22 is the day-precision date on Robert Young's Wikipedia article infobox or lead, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Lead Actor/Actress wins come from the Primetime Emmy drama and comedy Wikipedia lists, which compile Television Academy (emmys.com) results. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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