Alan Young

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Alan Young
Background information
Born	Angus Young November 19, 1919 North Shields, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom
Died	May 19, 2016 (aged 96) Woodland Hills, California, United States
Cause of death	Natural causes
Nationality	English Canadian American
Occupation	Actor, voice actor, comedian, radio and television host/personality
Years active	1939–2016
Family information
Spouse	Mary Grimes (1941–1947) Virginia McCurdy (1948–1995) Mary Chipman (1996–1997)
Children	Wendy Alana Cameron Angus Alan Young, Jr.

Angus "Alan" Young was an English-Canadian-American actor, voice actor, comedian, and radio and television host/personality, who starred in his own radio and TV shows in the 1940s and 1950s, including his self-titled Emmy Award-winning show The Alan Young Show. He was best known for his leading role as Wilbur Post in the classic prime time sitcom Mister Ed, and also co-starred with Rod Taylor in the 1960 sci-fi film The Time Machine.

For Disney, Young was best known for providing the voice of Scrooge McDuck from 1974 to 2016. He was the first actor to voice Scrooge with a genuine Scottish accent. He was born to Scottish parents and raised in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh after his father moved the family there when Young was a toddler, and although he had tried to get rid of his Scottish accent when he moved to America, it proved useful when he was cast as Scrooge. Young once said in an interview that he based Scrooge's voice on the voice of his own Scottish father. Young was later cast as another well-known Scottish cartoon character: Haggis MacHaggis from Nickelodeon's The Ren & Stimpy Show.

Young's other animated roles included voicing Hiram Flaversham in The Great Mouse Detective and Doctor Cooper in the TaleSpin episode "The Old Man and the Sea Duck". His only live-action role for Disney was Dr. Winger in The Cat from Outer Space.

He also voiced Mickey Mouse and Merlin in the Disneyland Records album An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players, for which Young also wrote the script. It would be the first and only time that Young voiced them. The album also marked Young's first performance as Scrooge McDuck.

Filmography as Scrooge McDuck

Alan Young with Scrooge McDuck

Young's most notable animated role was that of Scrooge McDuck, a character he voiced for over 40 years, making him one of the longest-running voice actors for the same character in Disney history. While he is best known for portraying Scrooge as the main character in the popular 1987–1990 animated series DuckTales, Young portrayed the role throughout a wide variety of Disney projects, including (but not limited to):

1970s

• An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players

1980s

• Mickey's Christmas Carol
• Mickey's Christmas Carol (audiobook version)
• DuckTales
  • All episodes (with the exception of "Superdoo!", "Sir Gyro de Gearloose", and "Launchpad's Civil War", since Scrooge did not appear in these episodes)
  • Various commercials and promotional material
• Disney Read-Along series
  • Welcome to Duckburg
  • Launchpad's Daring Raid
  • Dinosaur Ducks
  • Scrooge's Treasure Hunt

1990s

• DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
• Raw Toonage
  • "The Treasure of the Sierra Marsdre"
• The Twelve Days of Christmas (Disney Records)
• Disney's Sing-Along Songs: The Twelve Days of Christmas
• Disney On Ice
  • Walt Disney's World on Ice: 10th Anniversary
  • Disney on Ice: Beauty and the Beast (1992–2004)
• Disney theme park appearances
  • Disney Mania (1990–1992)
  • Mickey's Starland Show (1990–1992)
  • A Sparkling Christmas Spectacular - Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party
  • Numerous others
• Mickey Mouse Works
  • Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Midsummer Night's Dream
• Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas

2000s

• House of Mouse
  • "House of Scrooge"
  • "Snow Day"
• Mickey's Christmas Carol (Storyteller version)
• Disney's Party
• Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
• Disney Th!nk Fast

2010s

• Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
• DuckTales Remastered
• DuckTales: Scrooge's Loot
• Disney Magical World
• Disney Magical World 2
• Mickey Mouse
  • "Goofy's First Love"
  • "No"

Roles

Scrooge McDuck
(1974–2016)

Hiram Flaversham
(The Great Mouse Detective)

Mickey Mouse
(An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players)

Merlin
(An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players)

Doctor Cooper
(TaleSpin)

Dr. Winger
(The Cat from Outer Space)

Trivia

• Alan Young was one of the many celebrities to attend the opening of Disneyland and can be seen in the Dateline: Disneyland opening day broadcast. In particular, he is seen getting off of Peter Pan's Flight (which he apparently rode with Captain Hook) and is interviewed about it by Art Linkletter, one of the commentators. Young tells Linkletter that he flew over the real London a few months prior, and the Peter Pan ride was the exact same thing.
• Although his role as Scrooge McDuck had already been recast in the reboot series of DuckTales, Young was originally going to have a guest voice role in the new series as Fergus McDuck (Scrooge's father). However, these plans were cancelled, as Young had passed away before his lines could be recorded, thus voice actor Graham McTavish was given the role for Fergus McDuck.
• Young and Carl Barks (Scrooge's creator) were in contact with each other, as well as familiar with each others' work on the character. In an interview, Barks said that he liked Young's portrayal of Scrooge and thought it fit the character well.
• Young's voice role as Scrooge McDuck is virtually identical to his non-Disney voice role as Haggis MacHaggis in Nickelodeon's The Ren & Stimpy Show.

External links

• Alan Young on Wikipedia
• Alan Young on IMDb