Alan Young

Alan Young

Infobox actor


caption = Alan Young and Olga San Juan
name = Alan Young
birthdate = birth date and age|1919|11|19
location = North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England
emmyawards = Outstanding Lead Actor - Comedy Series
1950 "Mister Ed"

Alan Young (born 19 November 1919) is an Emmy Award-winning prolific character actor, best known for his television role opposite a talking horse, "Mister Ed" and as the voice of Scrooge McDuck.

Born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, with the given name Angus Young, he was raised in Edinburgh, Scotland and Canada.

Radio

He grew to love radio when bed-bound 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 two years later, he returned to NBC.He also works on a Christian radio program called Adventures In Odyssey

Television

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". 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.

Animation

In later life he founded a broadcast division for the Christian Science church and did animation voices. He was the voice of Scrooge McDuck for many Disney films and on the popular cartoon series "DuckTales" from 1987 to 1990. In "Mickey's Christmas Carol", he portrays 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", "", "TaleSpin", "The Smurfs", "The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries", "Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends" and as 7-Zark-7 in Battle of the Planets.

His 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 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"

Currently, Alan Young voices the character of Jack Allen on the Focus on the Family audio series "Adventures in Odyssey".

Listen to

* [http://www.archive.org/details/otr_alanyoung Internet Archive: "The Alan Young Show" (four 1945-46 episodes)]

External links

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* [http://www.mister-ed.tv// Alan Young official site]
* [http://www.joecookprogram.com/?page_id=5 Alan Young interview on "The Joe Cook Program" July 2006]
* [http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22archive+of+american+television+interview+with+alan+young%22&num=10&so=2&start=0 Alan Young's American Archive of American Television Interview]
* [http://www.7thvoyageprod.com/newtimemachine.html Alan Young reads HG Wells The Time Machine]


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