Alan Young 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.
18 Facts About Alan Young
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Alan Young's father was a mine worker and a tap dancer, and his mother was a singer.
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The family moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, when Alan Young was a toddler and to West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, when he was six years old.
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Alan Young came to love radio when bedridden as a child because of severe asthma.
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Alan Young 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.
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Alan Young switched to ABC two years later, then returned to NBC.
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Alan Young appeared in the NBC espionage drama Five Fingers, starring David Hedison.
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Alan Young was best known for Mister Ed, a CBS television show, in which he starred as Wilbur Post, the owner of Mr Ed, a talking horse who would not talk to anyone but him, thus causing comic situations for Wilbur Post, with his wife, neighbors, and acquaintances.
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Alan Young played Scrooge in video games such as the Kingdom Hearts series, DuckTales: Remastered in 2013, and the Mickey Mouse cartoon "Goofy's First Love" released in 2015.
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Alan Young guest starred on The Love Boat, The Incredible Hulk, The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show, and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends.
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Alan Young later starred in the sitcom Coming of Age for two seasons from 1988 to 1989.
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In 1991, Alan Young returned to the stage, starring as Cap'n Andy Hawkes in the California Musical Theatre's adaptation of Show Boat.
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Alan Young had been called for the role after Van Johnson, who was initially cast in the part, was hospitalised.
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Alan Young had appeared in the plays A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The Girl With the Freudian Slip.
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In 1994, Alan Young co-starred in the Eddie Murphy film Beverly Hills Cop III.
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Alan Young played the role of Uncle Dave Thornton, the Walt Disney-esque founder of the fictional California theme park Wonderworld, and in that same year, Young played the role of Charlie in the television film, Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is.
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Alan Young married his second wife Virginia McCurdy in 1948 and they had two children.
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Alan Young supported Ronald Reagan, although he stated in a later interview that he was apolitical.