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Alan Young (born November 19, 1919) is an Emmy Award-winning English-born character actor, best known for his television role opposite a talking horse, Mister Ed and as the voice of Scrooge McDuck. He also starred in his own shows on both radio and television.
as Angus Young in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, he grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland and in Canada. He came to love radio when bed-bound as a child because of severe asthma.
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Young was a broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Alan Young (born November 19, 1919) is an Emmy Award-winning English-born character actor, best known for his television role opposite a talking horse, Mister Ed and as the voice of Scrooge McDuck. He also starred in his own shows on both radio and television.
Early years
Born as Angus Young in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, he grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland and in Canada. He came to love radio when bed-bound as a child because of severe asthma.
Radio
Young was a broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1944, he moved to American radio with The Alan Young Show, NBC's summer replacement for Eddie Cantor. He swtched to ABC two years later, but then returned to NBC. Starting in 1995, he has been a part of the popular radio drama Adventures in Odyssey.
Television
The television version of The Alan Young Show began in 1950. After its cancellation, Young appeared in supporting roles in films such as The Time Machine. He appeared in the episode "Thin Ice" of the NBC espionage drama Five Fingers, starring David Hedison. He is best known, however, for Mister Ed, a CBS television show which ran from 1961 to 1966. He played the owner of a talking horse that would talk to no one but him.
Animation
In later life he founded a broadcast division for the Christian Science Church and did voices for animated cartoons. Since 1983, he has provided the voice of Scrooge McDuck for Disney films and on the popular series DuckTales. In Mickey's Christmas Carol, he portrayed the character's miserly namesake. He also provided the voice of Jack Allen on the Focus on the Family radio drama, Adventures in Odyssey and voiced Hiram Flaversham in Disney's The Great Mouse Detective. His other cartoon voice appearances include Camp Lazlo, Megas XLR, Static Shock, House of Mouse, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Duckman, Batman: The Animated Series, TaleSpin, The Smurfs, The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends and as 7-Zark-7 in Battle of the Planets.
Young's television guest appearances include The Love Boat, Murder, She Wrote, St. Elsewhere, Coach, Party of Five, The Wayans Bros., Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, USA High, Hang Time, ER and Maybe It's Me.
In 1993, Young recreated his role as Filby for the mini-sequel to George Pal's classic The Time Machine reuniting him with Rod Taylor, who played George, the Time Traveller. It was called Time Machine: The Journey Back directed by Clyde Lucas.
In 1994, Young co-starred in the Eddie Murphy film Beverly Hills Cop III. He played the role of Uncle Dave Thornton, the Walt Disney-esque founder of the fictional California theme park Wonderworld.
In 1997, he did the voice of Haggis McMutton in the PC game Curse of Monkey Island.
In 2000, he read H. G. Wells's The Time Machine for 7th Voyage Productions, Inc. In 2002, he had a cameo as the flower store worker in Simon Wells' remake of The Time Machine
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