Alan Young
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Angus Young November 19, 1919 North Shields, Northumberland, UK |
| Died | May 19, 2016 (aged 96) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, US |
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| Occupation | Actor, voice actor, comedian, radio host, television host |
| Years active | 1939–2016 |
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| Children | 4 |
| Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor |
Alan Young (born Angus Young; November 19, 1919 – May 19, 2016) was a British-born Canadian-American actor, voice actor, comedian and radio and television host/personality who TV Guide called "The Charlie Chaplin of Television". He was best known for his role as naive Wilbur Post in the television comedy series Mister Ed and as the voice of Scrooge McDuck in Disney films, TV series and video games. During the 1940s and 1950s, he 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 films as both an actor and voice actor.
Young was born as Angus Young on November 19, 1919, in North Shields, Northumberland, England, to Scottish parents. (In his later years he claimed he had been born in 1924.) His father was a mine worker and a tap dancer, and his mother was a singer. The family moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, when Young was a toddler and to West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, when he was six years old. Young came to love radio when bedridden as a child because of severe asthma.
By the time he was in high school, Young had his own comedy radio series on the CBC network, but he left it during World War II to serve in the Royal Canadian Navy. He later resigned his Navy commission after learning he would be spending his time writing for a Navy show, and he attempted to join the Canadian Army. According to some sources, the Army rejected him due to his childhood asthma.
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