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Alan Young
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Alan Young (born November 19, 1919) is an actor best known for his television role opposite a talking horse, Mister Ed.
Born in North Shields,Tyne and Wear, England, with the given name Angus Young, he was raised in Edinburgh, Scotland and in Canada. He grew to love radio when bedbound as a child because of severe asthma and became a radio broadcaster on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1944, he made the leap to American radio with The Alan Young Show, NBC's summer replacement for Eddie Cantor. Following a move to ABC in the fall (1944-46), he returned to NBC (1946-49).
His television version of The Alan Young Show began in 1950. After the show's cancellation, Young appeared in supporting parts in films such as The Time Machine (1960). His most popular venture, however, was Mister Ed, a CBS television show which ran from 1961 to 1966. He played the owner of a talking horse which would talk to no one but him.
In later life he founded a broadcast division for the Christian Science church and did animation voices. He was the voice of Scrooge McDuck for many Disney films and television shows. In Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983), as Scrooge McDuck, he portrays the character's miserly namesake. He also provided the voice of Jack Allen on the Focus on the Family radio drama, Adventures in Odyssey.
Young voiced a small role on The Ren and Stimpy Show as Haggis McHaggis. Additionally Young provided the voice of the kilt-wearing barber-pirate Haggis McMutton in the highly acclaimed computer-adventure game The Curse of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 3). The character's voice is similar to that of Scrooge.