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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Happy Trails, Alan Young!!
I used to watch that show and I don’t remember ever seeing Wilbur Post riding Mr. Ed.
A talking Angus? No thanks.
He also voiced Jack Allen on Adventures in Odyssey.
Who likes hearing the theme to “Mr. Ed” backwards, lol?
It’s a really great theme song. “A horse is a horse, of course, of course...Something like that.
I think people don’t get it.
Good for them, actually.
Me neither but there is a Getty image of Connie Hines riding him. Google it
Mister Ed didn’t really like to be ridden, and Wilbur treated him like a favorite, spoiled child.
“straight man”? Thanks AP for aligning my thinking per the politburo. Am I reading too much into that?
Ohhhhh, Willllbbbuuuurrr!
Uhhh, A horse is a horse.
wiiiiiiilbur RIP
Well, insofar as Bud Abbott was the “straight man”, Lou Costello was definitely not the gay man. (Or was he? *gulp*)
Wow. I never realized he was one of the actors in “The Time Machine”.
I still remember him in Androcles in the Lion, which I saw first. I always loved that movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC2tPkT3G5s
Well, in that band, Angus was always the teetotaler. He smokes like a chimney, though.
The horse’s real name was Bamboo Harvester.He was one well trained stallion,Alan rode him with just leads clipped to his halter-no bit in his mouth.
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