Alan Young

Alan Young
Young in 1944
Born	Angus Young (1919-11-19)November 19, 1919 North Shields, Northumberland, England
Died	May 19, 2016(2016-05-19) (aged 96) Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
Citizenship	United Kingdom (1919–2016) Canada (1925–2016) United States (1944–2016)
Occupations	Actor comedian radio presenter
Years active	1939–2016
Spouses	Mary Anne Grimes ​ ​ (m. 1941; div. 1947)​ Virginia McCurdy ​ ​ (m. 1948; div. 1995)​ Mary Chipman ​ ​ (m. 1996; div. 1997)​
Children	4
Awards	Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor

Alan Young (born Angus Young; November 19, 1919 – May 19, 2016) was a British-born actor, who TV Guide called "the Charlie Chaplin of television".

Young portrayed Wilbur Post in the television comedy Mister Ed (1961–1966) and voiced Disney's Scrooge McDuck for over 40 years, beginning in the 1974 Disneyland Records album An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players. He again voiced Scrooge in the Academy Award-nominated short film Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) and continued in the role in various other films, television series and video games up until his death. During the 1940s and 1950s, Young starred in his own variety-comedy sketch shows The Alan Young Show on radio and television, the latter gaining him two Emmy Awards in 1951. He also appeared in a number of feature films, starting from 1946, including the 1960 film The Time Machine and from the 1980s gaining a new generation of viewers appearing in numerous Walt Disney Productions, Pixar Animation Studios films as both an actor and voice actor.