# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-young
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:44:51.314Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-young"
name: "Alan Young"
slug: "alan-young"
description: "Alan Young was a British–born actor. Young is best known for portraying Wilbur Post in the television comedy Mister Ed (1961–1966) and voicing 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. He was considered by TV Guide to be \"the Charlie Chaplin of television\"."
tagline: "British actor (1919–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alan_Young_circa_1944.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1919-11-19"
deathDate: "2016-05-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.09
  momentum:             0.28153879217709
  historical:           22.38333866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0949241/"
    handle:    "nm0949241"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Alan Young"
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    title: "Alan Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alan Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alan Young"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alan Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alan Young (acteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ալան Յանգ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alan Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Young"
    title: "Alan Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alan Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Young"
    title: "Alan Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Янг, Алан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555246"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21874"
    title: "Alan Young"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump