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Father of Jennifer Youngs and Lachlan Youngs. Spent 6 years (1988-1994) in South Africa, working with Nelson Mandela for the anti-Apartheid movement. Had a son, Lachlan Youngs, and a daughter, Jennifer Youngs, from his first marriage to Susan Youngs. Was an assistant production manager for certain sequences of Spike Lee's film Malcolm X (1992) that was shot in South Africa where John was living at the time working with Nelson Mandela on the anti-apartheid movement. John had appeared in Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) a few years back, and later would show up in Lee's Summer of Sam (1999). In his early years he organized the Manhattan's Children's Theatre Group which performed in public housing areas.