Alan Young
British actor (1919-2016) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 96
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.
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Mickey MouseSeries, Scrooge McDuck (voice)2004
Mickey's Twice Upon a ChristmasFilm, Uncle Scrooge McDuck (voice)2001
Disney's House of MouseSeries, Scrooge McDuck (voice)1997
Beyond Belief: Fact or FictionSeries, Jake Gillespie (segment "The Diner")
Christmas Unwrapped: The History of ChristmasFilm, 1997Scrooge McDuck (archive footage)1994
ERSeries, Archie Mellonston1993
Disney's Sing-Along Songs: The Twelve Days of ChristmasFilm, (voice)1991
The Ren & Stimpy ShowSeries, Haggis (voice)1990
DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost LampFilm, Scrooge (voice)1989
CoachSeries, Ranger Farley1987
Alice Through the Looking GlassFilm, The White Knight (voice)1984
Murder, She WroteSeries, Floyd Nelson
Bad CatFilm, 1984Jim Harrison (voice)1982
Bunnicula, the Vampire RabbitFilm, Mr. Monroe / Storekeeper (voice)1979
The Adventures of Humpty DumptyFilm, Humpty (voice)1976
Baker's HawkFilm, Mr. Carson1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSeries1961Five Fingers : Thin IceFilm, Karl1958
Tom ThumbFilm, Woody1955
Matinee TheaterSeries1952
Aaron Slick from Punkin CrickFilm, Aaron Slick1948
Studio OneSeries, George Abernathy1946
MargieFilm, Roy Hornsdale1919Born19 November 1919People around Alan
Close ties
Russi Taylor Also in DuckTales
Tony Anselmo Also in DuckTales and The Great Mouse Detective
Wayne Allwine Also in Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)
George Seaton Directed Chicken Every Sunday (1949)
George Pal Directed The Time Machine (1960)
Hal Smith Also in DuckTales and Mickey's Christmas Carol
William Perlberg Produced Chicken Every Sunday (1949)
Joan Gerber Also in DuckTales
Roddy McDowall Also in The Cat from Outer Space and Earth Angel
Janet Waldo Also in Scruffy (1980)- Burny Mattinson Directed Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)
Richard Sale Directed Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
Ron W. Miller Produced The Cat from Outer Space (1979)
Nicholas Ray Directed Androcles and the Lion (1952)
Alfred Newman Wrote Chicken Every Sunday and Margie
Tress MacNeille Also in Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999)
Veda Ann Borg Also in Chicken Every Sunday (1949)- Gabriel Pascal Produced Androcles and the Lion (1952)
Linda Gary Also in Scruffy and Beauty and the Beast
Miriam Flynn Also in DuckTales and Super Ducktales- Norman Tokar Directed The Cat from Outer Space (1979)
Chester Erskine Directed Androcles and the Lion (1952)- Dallas McKennon Also in The Cat from Outer Space and Tom Thumb
- Walker Edmiston Also in Scruffy and The Great Mouse Detective
Known for
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Once Upon a Studio 2023
Mickey's Christmas Carol 1983
Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas 1999
Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas 2004
The Great Mouse Detective 1986
Filmography 39
102 credits on file
Television 24
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About this person
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".
In the same film or series as Alan
Jodi BensonAlso in Once Upon a Halloween (2005)
Christopher LloydAlso in DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)
Shirley TempleAlso in Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)
Vincent PriceAlso in The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Stan FrebergAlso in Tom Thumb (1958)
Dinah ShoreAlso in Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952)