question: What film based off a novel by Frederick Forsyth did Nicholas Young star in?
answer: The Day of the Jackal
context: Title: The Devil's Alternative
  Passage: The Devil's Alternative is a novel by British writer Frederick Forsyth first published in 1979.  It was his fourth full-length novel and marked a new direction in his work, setting the story in the near-future (in 1982) rather than in the recent past.  The work evolved from an unfilmed screenplay entitled "No Alternative".
  Title: The Day of the Jackal (film)
  Passage: The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 Anglo-French political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michel Lonsdale.  Based on the 1971 novel "The Day of the Jackal" by Frederick Forsyth, the film is about a professional assassin known only as the "Jackal" who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963.
  Title: Icon (film)
  Passage: Icon (or "Frederick Forsyth's Icon") is a 2005 made-for-television thriller film directed by Charles Martin Smith and very loosely based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth.  The film premiered on Hallmark Channel May 30, 2005.  It is set in the period 1985 to 1999.
  Title: Nicholas Young (actor)
  Passage: He was trained at the Corona Stage School London and made his professional debut in 1964 playing a lead in the film "Eagle Rock".  He made numerous television appearances during the 1960s including featured roles in individual dramas and in series such as "Front Page Story", "Kate" and "The Flying Swan" as well as film roles in "The Haunted House of Horror" (1969), "The Day Of The Jackal" (1973), "Three for All" (1975), "Eskimo Nell" (1975), "It Could Happen to You" (1975), "Adventures of a Private Eye" (1977), "Home Before Midnight" (1979) and "S.O.S. Titanic" (1979).  His stage work included playing at the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh in 1966 and a leading role in the West End production of Alan Bennett's "40 Years On".
citations: Nicholas Young (actor) The Day of the Jackal (film)