Alan Young

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Alan Young with singer Olga San Juan (1950s)

Alan Young (born November 19, 1919 in North Shields , Tyne and Wear ; actually Angus Young , † May 19, 2016 in Woodland Hills , California ) was a Canadian - British actor .

life and career

Alan Young was born in northern England to a Scottish shipyard worker, but the family moved to Edinburgh , Scotland when he was a toddler. At the age of six he moved with his family to Canada , where he got his first roles on the radio as a teenager and also worked there as a writer. In 1944, the 25-year-old Young got his own Alan Young show on the US radio station NBC . This radio show, in which Young could show his talent for music and voice imitation, was a great success and ran for a total of nine years. In 1946 he was engaged in Hollywood for the first time: In the teenage comedy Margie , directed by Henry King, he played the idiot admirer of Jeanne Crain . In New York in 1950 he got his first own television show, which was also titled The Alan Young Show . While Young and that show won multiple Emmy Awards , it was soon canceled. He then played the title role of Androclus in Androkles and the Lion (1952), alongside Jean Simmons , as well as important roles in the George Pal fantasy films The Little Thumb (1958) and The Time Machine (1960). In 2002, Young had a cameo in the remake of The Time Machine .

Young's best-known role was in Mister Ed , a CBS television series that was filmed from 1961 to 1966. He played the lovable architect Wilbur Post , who with “Mr. Ed “had a talking horse, but it was only willing to communicate with him. In addition, Young also played guest roles in numerous other television series. He starred in a first unsent pilot episode Stanley Beamish / Mr. Terrific (Eng .: Mr. Fabelhaft). Since he was not convincing, another pilot episode was shot in which Stephen Strimpell took over the part. The series was broadcast in Germany under the title Always when he took pills . After the end of Mister Ed , Young temporarily turned away from the acting business to devote himself to work at Christian Science , but from the mid-1970s he started a comeback . He took over the speaking role of Dagobert Duck , whom he spoke in the original English versions until his death. Young lent his voice to the richest duck in the world in Mickey's Christmas story and in the television series DuckTales - News from Duckburg , most recently in 2015/16 guest appearances on the television series Mickey Mouse . In addition, Young also spoke the Smurf Farmi in the television series The Smurfs and Hiriam Flaversham in the Disney cartoon Basil, the great mouse detective . In 1994, Young played alongside Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop III , the role of Uncle Dave, a Walt Disney- like owner of an amusement park.

Alan Young was married twice: from 1941 until divorced in 1947 to Mary Anne Grimes; and from 1948 until her death in 2011 with Virginia McCurdy. Young has four children and lived in Woodland Hills until his death . The actor died in May 2016 at the age of 96. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Alan Young  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Alan Young from 2009
  2. ↑ Alan Young in the "Hollywood Walk of Fame" project for the Los Angeles Times
  3. ^ Alan Young at Allmovie
  4. ^ Alan Young at Allmovie
  5. ^ "Mr. Ed" star Alan Young has died , obituary on T-Online
  6. ↑ Alan Young in the "Hollywood Walk of Fame" project for the Los Angeles Times
personal data
SURNAME Young, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Young, Angus (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-British actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH North Shields , Tyne and Wear
DATE OF DEATH 19th May 2016
Place of death Woodland Hills , California