Alan Young (born November 19, 1919) is an English-born character actor, best known for his television role opposite a talking horse, Mister Ed and as the voice of Scrooge McDuck. During the 1940s and 1950s he starred in his own shows on radio and television.
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.
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Alan Young (born November 19, 1919) is an English-born character actor, best known for his television role opposite a talking horse, Mister Ed and as the voice of Scrooge McDuck. During the 1940s and 1950s he starred in his own shows on radio and television.
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.
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 switched 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.
Young was featured in the film Chicken Every Sunday in 1949, and the television version of The Alan Young Show began the following year. After its cancellation, Young appeared in films, including Androcles and the Lion (1952) and The...
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