Biography
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Alan Young (born November 19, 1919) is an actor best known for his television role opposite a talking horse, Mister Ed.
Mr Young was born in North Shields,Tyne and Wear, England, and had the given name of Angus, he was raised in Edinburgh, Scotland and in Canada. He grew to love radio when bedbound as a child because of severe asthma, and became a radio broadcaster on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1944, he made the leap to American radio with The Alan Young Show, NBC's summer replacement for Eddie Cantor. Following a move to ABC in the fall (1944-46), he returned to NBC (1946-49).
His television version of The Alan Young Show began in 1950. After the show's cancellation, Young appeared in supporting parts in films such as The Time Machine (1960).
His most popular venture, however, was Mister Ed, a CBS television show which ran from 1961 to 1966. He played the owner of a talking horse which would talk to no one but him.
He founded a broadcast division for the Christian Science church.
In later life he has done a great deal of voice acting for animated cartoons and films. He has been the voice of Scrooge McDuck in many Disney films and television series since Mickey's Christmas Carol in 1983 (where, as Scrooge McDuck, he portrays the character's miserly namesake). He also provides the voice of Jack Allen on the Focus on the Family radio drama Adventures in Odyssey.
Young voiced a small role on The Ren and Stimpy Show as Haggis McHaggis. Additionally Young provided the voice of the kilt-wearing barber-pirate Haggis McMutton in the highly acclaimed computer-adventure game The Curse of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 3). Not too surprisingly the character's voice is very similar to that of Scrooge.
Filmography
- Margie (1946)
- Chicken Every Sunday (1949)
- Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)
- Aaron Slick from Punkin Creek (1952)
- Androcles and the Lion (1952)
- Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
- tom thumb (1958)
- The Time Machine (1960)
- Baker's Hawk (1976)
- The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
- Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) (short subject) (voice)
- The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985) (documentary)
- The Great Mouse Detective (1986) (voice)
- DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) (voice)
- Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
- Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999) (voice) (direct-to-video)
- The Time Machine (2002)
- Em & Me (2004)
- Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004) (voice) (direct-to-DVD)
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