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<p dir="auto"><strong>Shadow2700</strong> — <em>9 years ago(May 20, 2016 04:00 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Alan Young, Two-Legged Star of 'Mister Ed,' Dies at 96<br />
Alan Young, who answered to the name Willburrrrrrrrrrrrr on Mister Ed, the wacky 1960s sitcom that revolved around a talking horse, has died. He was 96.<br />
Young, who for six seasons played straight man to a golden palomino, a gelding who was named Bamboo Harvester, died Thursday of natural causes at the Motion Picture &amp; Television Home in Woodland Hills. He was there for more than four years.<br />
Young himself was the voice of a talking bird, playing Scottish miser Scrooge McDuck (the uncle of Donald Duck and great uncle of Huey, Dewey, and Louie) on the 1987-90 syndicated series DuckTales.<br />
And a decade before Mister Ed, the good-natured actor hosted CBS The Alan Young Show, which won an Emmy Award for best variety series and earned Young a trophy for best actor as well.<br />
On the big screen, Young played David Filby (and his son James) in MGMs sci-fi classic The Time Machine (1960), starring Rod Taylor.<br />
In his most famous role, Young portrayed Wilbur Post, an unassuming, accident-prone architect who is married to Carol (Connie Hines). They live in a nice home in the San Fernando Valley with a barn, where the chatty Mister Ed resides  but only Wilbur can hear him speak.<br />
In a 1990 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Young said Wilbur was naive and bumbling while Ed was a wily one. I think its the same chemistry that made Laurel and Hardy and Jackie Gleason and Art Carney: Its the one guy making a fool of the other guy.<br />
Based on a series of childrens short stories by Walter Brooks and produced by Filmways, Mister Ed started out in syndication in January 1960 on about 100 stations; after 26 episodes, CBS picked up the show, and it aired until February 1966.<br />
To make Ed appear as if he were talking, a piece of nylon thread was placed in his mouth and manipulated to make his lips move. Pr2000oducers didnt want anyone to know the secret, so Young made up a story about putting peanut butter in the horses mouth, which he would then try to lick off.<br />
But Ed actually learned to move his lips on cue when the trainer touched his hoof, he once said. In fact, he soon learned to do it when I stopped talking during a scene! Ed was very smart.<br />
Allan Rocky Lane, a star of several Western B movies and the actor who provided the voice of the horse, never went recognized in the credits, which noted that Mister Ed was played by<br />
Angus Young was born Nov. 19, 1919, in North Shields, Northumberland, England, near the Scottish border. His father was a tap dancer and his mother a singer. The family moved when he was a child to Edinburgh and then to a community outside Vancouver.<br />
As a kid, Young was often bedridden with asthma and spent his days listening to the radio, keeping track of jokes and writing his own comedy sketches. He got a job as an office boy at a local radio station, and after slipping in a part for himself on a drama show when he was typing up the script, became an actor.<br />
Young eventually got his own radio show on the CBC but left to serve in the Canadian navy and army during World War II.<br />
Now in Toronto after his discharge from the service, Young was discovered in the U.S. when Frank Cooper  an agent who also was instrumental in the careers of Frank Sinatra and Dinah Shore  accidentally picked up Youngs show through the static on his radio.<br />
Cooper brought him to New York to tell jokes on the Philco Hall of Fame radio program in 1944, and that led to Young being hired as a summer replacement on The Eddie Cantor Show. (The host was one of his heroes.)<br />
After starring in The Alan Young Show on the radio, CBS brought the variety enterprise to television, and TV Guide named him the Charlie Chaplin of television in 1950.<br />
Young, who had a date with Marilyn Monroe when she was 18, made his movie debut in Margie (1946), starring Jeanne Crain, appeared in Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949) and Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick (1952) and befriended another animal in a film adaptation of George Bernard Shaws Androcles and the Lion (1952).<br />
Young later played a villain on ABCs daytime soap General Hospital, showed up in Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), guest-starred on shows like St. Elsewhere and ER and voiced characters on The Ren &amp; Stimpy Show, The Smurfs and The Great Mouse Detective (1986).<br />
Contributions in Young's name may be made to the Motion Picture &amp; Television Fund and to Y.E.S. The Arc, a residential program in Arizona for people with special needs.<br />
It was George Burns, who had done an earlier, unsuccessful Mister Ed pilot with another actor, who convinced Young to play Wilbur Post.<br />
He looks like the sort of fellow a horse would talk to, Burns said, and Young took that as a compliment.</p>
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<p dir="auto">RIP.<br />
I bought my niece a Ducktales box-set at a carboot sale yesterday. Only found out just now it was Alan Young who voiced Scrooge.<br />
My sibling and I would watch Tom Thumb once a week. It was Toy Story before Toy Story. We were fascinated when all the toys would come alive and start to dance an talk.<br />
The Time Machine (1960) is one of my favorite ever films and of course everyone loves Ducktales.<br />
He had a great career and will be sadly missed. I enjoyed a lot of his work over the years. May he rest in peace.</p>
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<p dir="auto">RIP of course.<br />
Why ain't you at the garden party you heathen?</p>
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<p dir="auto">RIP David Filby, Jamie Filby. "Thank you. Thank you for being such a good friendalways."</p>
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<p dir="auto">I been on this page so many times looking up Alan Young.  Each time i was so happy he was still alive.  I can't believe he's gone now. he was such a great actor and voice actor.  96 isn't bad at all, but losing this legend is very sad.<br />
I grew up watching Ducktales and Scrooge McDuck.  So many great memories watching that tv show.<br />
Rest in peace Alan, you made millions of people happy and will continue to do so for many years to come.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I liked the way his vestigial Scots accent would slip in when he was playing Wilbur. Like he would say "rahther" for "rather" and "bean" for "been," and "reheersal" for "rehearsal." Also "aboot" for "about." Nice touch. And I remember one episode of Mr. Ed where he played his own father with a very pronounced Scots accent. What a performer. Hopefully he and Mr. Ed are now riding happily again.</p>
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<p dir="auto">R.I.P Alan.</p>
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<p dir="auto">He was an incredible talent. From 'Mr. Ed' to 'Battle of the Planets' and to 'DuckTales', Alan Young was present throughout my childhood. RIP.<br />
"Time is the fire in which we burn."</p>
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<p dir="auto">Actor and comedian Alan Young - who starred alongside a talking horse in the popular sitcom Mr Ed in the 1960s - has died in Los Angeles, aged 96.<br />
He died of natural causes on Thursday at a film and TV retirement facility in the city, his manager said.<br />
Young played the amiable architect Wilbur Post, with Mr Ed - a talkative palomino - stabled in his barn.<br />
Young, who was born in the UK, educated in Canada and later became a US citizen, was buried at sea.<br />
Mr Ed ran for six seasons from 1960-1966.<br />
Young reputedly got the part when the comedian George Burns, whose TV production company was launching the series, said: "Get Alan Young. He looks like the kind of guy a horse would talk to."<br />
His four-legged co-star was Bamboo Harvester, who communicated with Wilbur in a deep, rolling voice provided by the cowboy star Allan "Rocky'' Lane.<br />
Young was frequently asked how they made the horse's lips move.<br />
The production team didn't want to give their secret away, so Young said they put peanut butter in the horse's mouth.<br />
"I made up the peanut butter story, and everyone bought it," he recalled in a 2009 interview.<br />
In fact, a piece of nylon thread was used to manipulate Mr Ed's lips in the early episodes.<br />
"But Ed actually learned to move his lips on cue when the trainer touched his hoof," said Young.<br />
"In fact, he soon learned to do it when I stopped talking during a scene. Ed was very smart."<br />
During his career, Young also appeared in several films, including The Time Machine.<br />
In 1951, he won a Primetime Emmy award as best actor in The Alan Young Show.<br />
In later years, Young wrote for cartoons and voiced some of the characters.<br />
He was the voice of Scrooge McDuck in Disney's TV series Duck Tales.<br />
"He was an honest, decent man, a pleasure to work with and never a problem," his manager of more 30 years, Gene Yusem, told the Reuters news agency.<br />
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<p dir="auto">RIP, I watch Mr Ed daily.</p>
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<p dir="auto">RIP, Mr. Young, one of the last of my childhood TV icons and probably the oldest.  96 1/2 to the day you had a great run.  In the 60's my sisters and I knew we could make each other laugh by just doing our best, "Wilburrrrrrrrrrrrr".</p>
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<p dir="auto">RIP<br />
Me Ed, The Time Machine, Scrooge McDuck<br />
It's that man again!!</p>
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<p dir="auto">Yes, I remember Mr Ed all to well<br />
I also remember the Studebaker Commercials when it aired in the early 1960's.<br />
You can watch them with the cast of the show on YouTube.<br />
Also Alan Young was well known for his Radio Show: The Alan Young Show.<br />
Which became a TV show in the early 1950's.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Burst me bagpipes!<br />
Thank you Mr Young for making Scrooge McDuck a loveable old dude.<br />
May his soul rest in peace.<br />
07/08/06 786 the sentinel of Allah has arrived.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Rest In Peace Alan Young. Thanks for the great acting and voices for cartoon. I love Scrooge McCuck. We'll miss you.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Rest In Peace<br />
I can't keep calm, I'm a Gemini!!!</p>
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<p dir="auto">RIP, Scrooge</p>
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<p dir="auto">I am very sad and cannot stop crying that Alan Young has passed away.  I loved him very much.  I've talked with him several times during the past few years and he was charming, delightful, funny and sweet.<br />
I recorded these calls with Alan and shared them with just "family and friends" so they could also hear what a wo2000nderful man Alan was.  I shall cherish these recordings as a momento of Alan.<br />
It does comfort me to know Alan is in heaven but I'll definitely miss him very much.  Alan had stated that he started every day with God and now he is with Him.<br />
God bless you, Alan.</p>
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<p dir="auto">may he rest in peace thanks for sharing your talent with us.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Wow! Long and healthy career. Long life. God Bless. RIP.<br />
A lion does not concern himself with the opinion of sheep.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Another Hollywood veteran gone. Alan Young, who starred as Wilbur Post on the 1960s sitcom Mister Ed, died on Thursday, May 19. He was 96.<br />
The actor died of natural causes at the Motion Picture and Television Home in Woodland Hills, California, a spokesperson for the retirement community told the Associated Press.<br />
Young was best known for his role alongside the iconic talking horse on the hit CBS series, which aired from 1961 to 1966. He also played the voice of Scrooge McDuck in several Disney films and TV series, including DuckTales and Mickeys Christmas Carol.<br />
In 1951, he earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his role on The Alan Young Show. The self-titled series started as a radio show, but eventually moved to television as a variety show in 1950. It aired until 1953 and also took home the Emmy Award for Best Variety Series in 1951.<br />
Young was a regular guest on many other TV shows over the years. He appeared on The Love Boat, Murder, She Wrote, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and ER. He also provided the voices for multiple characters on The Smurfs and played Hiram Flaversham in The Great Mouse Detective.<br />
The legendary actor passed away at the Motion Picture and Television Funds Villa on Vitas Hospice with his children by his side.<br />
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<p dir="auto">Wilbur and Scrooge McDuckrip</p>
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<p dir="auto">Loved Alan in Mr. Ed and in Gentlemen Marry Brunettes - RIP Mr. Young.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Rest in peace, Alan Young<br />
I've been chasing grace/ But grace ain't easy to find</p>
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<p dir="auto">(CNN)Alan Young, who played the hapless yet protective owner of a talking horse on the popular television comedy "Mister Ed," has died at age 96, according to officials at the Motion Picture &amp; Television Home in Woodland Hills, California.<br />
He died Thursday of natural causes with his children at his side, the organization said.<br />
Young also was a well-received voice actor, with appearance238s as Scrooge McDuck in many Disney productions and also as Farmer Smurf and other characters in the 1980s-era cartoon.<br />
Young appeared on several shows before being cast as Wilbur Post on "Mister Ed," which became one of the most popular shows in the early 1960s. One of his previous shows, "The Alan Young Show," won a prime-time Emmy.<br />
According to a 1990 story in the Los Angeles Times, famed comedian George Burns financed "Mister Ed" and told his co-owner they should cast Young because "he looks like the kind of guy a horse would talk to."<br />
Youb68ng told the newspaper that Wilbur Post was bumbling while Mister Ed was wily.<br />
"I think it's the same chemistry that made Laurel and Hardy, and Jackie Gleason and Art Carney," he said. "It's the one guy making a fool of the other guy." The show, which ran weekly from 1961 until 1966, featured a horse who talked (with help from a never-seen human voice actor) but Mister Ed spoke only to his owner, much to Wilbur Post's frustration.<br />
Young had 101 acting credits, according to the Internet Movie Database, including the 1960 science fiction film "The Time Machine." He made many guest appearances on television after taking a long break after the end of "Mister Ed."<br />
Young was born in England in 1919 as Angus Young and grew up in Scotland and Canada. He began his entertainment career on the radio at age 13. He had his own show when he was 17.<br />
He was married three times  to Mary Anne Grimes, Virginia McCurdy and Mary Chipman  and had four children.<br />
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