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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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Best episode ...... Clint Eastwood and Ellie Mae from the Beverly Hillbillys were in this one.....
RIP Mr Young.
He lived when TV shows were innocent and decent. That era is long over.
Wilbur!!!!
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“I still remember him in Androcles in the Lion, which I saw first. I always loved that movie”
That was the film that was made by Howard Hughes because Hughes liked Alan Post in Mr Ed. That was the last film made by Howard Hughes.
My mother always got upset at that show, saying they were torturing the horse by putting some sort of fishing line / string through its mouth to make it “talk.” She refused to watch it.
Nothing against your mom, but that wasn’t the case. The horse was amazingly smart and knew to move its lips when the actors stopped talking. When Young went to visit the horse a few years after the show ended, it started “talking” when it saw him.
I did not know that. Wow.
You Eloy. LOL
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The voice of Uncle Scrooge, my favorite Disney character. He shall be missed
The original pilot for “Mr. Ed”, with different actors playing Wilbur and Carol Post (their last name in the pilot was “Pope”) went unsold. It was made two years prior to the series being picked up with Alan Young and Connie Hines playing the leads. The earlier pilot episode can be found on You Tube.
“Who likes hearing the theme to “Mr. Ed” backwards, lol?”
El Rushbo once did an extremely funny bit about the voice of Satan emerging from a Slim Whitman tune played backwards, “Una Paloma Blanca”.
Rush claimed it was his response to preachers in the 1980’s finding Satanic messages in various LPs spun backwards & one was the “Mister Ed” theme which when reversed sounded like “the sssource isss sssatan”. Combined with hearing Slim Whitman infomercials every ten minutes, Rush poured his skepticism into the bit which was hilarious as were the reactions of his listening audience in Sacramento.
Anyway, Alan Young is missed; didn’t know he was that old. Connie Hines passed away in 2009. And of course we miss Mister Ed and those earlier times.
Larry Keating, Wilber Post's neighbor Roger Addison, was also Geroge Burn's neighbor Harry Morton on "The Gorge Burns and Gracie Allen Show".
That was a great show, I was just watching clips on you tube
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