Enjoyed his work in "The Time Machine", too. RIP.
Posted on 05/20/2016 4:48:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Actor-comedian Alan Young, who played the amiable straight man to a talking horse in the 1960s sitcom “Mister Ed,” has died, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture and Television Home said Friday. He was 96.
The English-born, Canadian-educated Young died Thursday, according to Jaime Larkin, spokeswoman for the retirement community where Young had lived for four years. His children were with him when he died peacefully of natural causes, she said.
Young was already a well-known radio and TV comedian, having starred in his own Emmy-winning variety show, when “Mister Ed” was being readied at comedian George Burns’ production company. Burns is said to have told his staff: “Get Alan Young. He looks like the kind of guy a horse would talk to.” …
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Interesting bit of trivia: His birth name was Angus Young.
RIP Mr Young.
“Hello, Willlbur!”...RIP
I loved that show, and I watched it on Nick at Nite in the 1980s as a kid.
I much preferred Donald O’Connor and Frances the talking mule.
Enjoyed his work in "The Time Machine", too. RIP.
Good man. Also the voice of Scrooge McDuck.
RIP Wilbur. My you meet up with Mr Ed at the rainbow bridge
I can’t post pictures from my phone, but Connie Hines was drop-dead gorgeous.
“Interesting bit of trivia: His birth name was Angus Young.”
Maybe they should have had him talking to a cow?
When we were younger (I won’t say how much younger), we used to parody the theme song...
“A corpse is a corpse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk with a corpse, of course,
That is, of course, unless the corpse
Is the famous Mr. Dead!”
I hope Mr. Young is where I hope to be. RIP.
I read that Howard Hughes was a big fan on Alan Post and Mr. Ed. Hughes made his last movie with Alan Post in the lead.
The voice of Mr Ed was Alan “Rocky” Lane, a Saturday afternoon western movie hero of mine over 60 years ago.
He was a devout Christian, so I think he is.
Pretty lady
9/19/1919-5/19/2016
Or playing a Gibson SG guitar?
“Will.....ber”
RIP
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