ALAN YOUNG BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Alan Young was born on November 19th, 1919 in North Shields, Northumberland, England with the birth name Angus Young to John Cathcart Young and Florence Pinckney. As a young boy his family first relocated to Edinburgh, Scotland and then later to Canada when he was six years old.
By the time he was only thirteen, he was already performing on the radio and at the age of seventeen he was given the opportunity to write and perform on his own radio show for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was this experience that earned him the chance to travel to New York and was the beginning of his career as an American radio performer between 1944 through 1949, with his own show, " The Alan Young Radio Show " as a summer replacement for Eddie Cantor's show.
When his show cancelled he formed a comedy act and toured throughout the United States, increasing his fan base. He then was given his own television show, "The Alan Young Show" (1950) which aired for three years and earned a number of Emmy's.
When the show came to an end he continued his pursuit as an actor in the film industry appearing on such features as, "Margie" (1946) starring Jeanne Crain, Lynn Bari and Hattie McDaniel, "Chicken Every Sunday" (1949) starring Dan Dailey, Celeste Holm, Natalie Wood, Connie Gilchrist and William Frawley, "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College" (1949) co-starring Clifton Webb, Shirley Temple, Kathleen Hughes, Jeff Chandler and Tom Drake, "Androcles and the Lion" (1952) starring alongside Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Reginald Gardiner, Jim Backus, Woody Strode, Robert Newton, Gene Lockhart, Elsa Lanchester, Alan Mowbray and Maurice Evans, "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" (1955) starring Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain, Scott Brady, Rudy Vallee and Guy Middleton, "Tom Thumb" (1958) co-starring Russ Tamblyn, Terry Thomas, June Thorburn and Peter Sellers and "The Time Machine" (1960) starring Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot and Whit Bissell.
Along with an already successful career as a radio and film actor he increased his popularity when he was cast in the television series, "Mister Ed" (1958) portraying Wilbur Post.
Other television credits include, "Studio 57", "The Love Boat", "ABC Weekend Specials", "Death Valley Days" and "Murder, She Wrote". More recently he has also appeared on, "Party of Five", "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch", "ER", "Maybe This Time", "The Tony Danza Show", "Rude Awakening" and "Megas XLR".
He has also worked voice over work on a number of video games and animated television series such as the voice of Scrooge McDuck on the series, "DuckTales" (1987). Other cartoon voice over work he has done includes, "The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries", "Spider-Man", "TaleSpin", "The Ren & Stimpy Show" and "Static Shock". He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio.
Alan Young has married twice throughout his lifetime. His first wife was Mary Anne Grimes whom he wed in 1941 and they had two children before the marriage came in 1947. He is currently married to Virginia McCurdy since 1948 and they also have one child together. He owns homes in England as well as in Los Angeles, California.
Filmography
2010 Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
2008 Disney TH!NK Fast
2005 Mickey's Around the World in 80 Days
2004 Megas XLR
2004 Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
2004 Em & Me
2004 Static Shock
2002 House of Mouse
2002 The Time Machine
2001 Maybe It's Me
2001 God, the Devil and Bob
2001 FreakyLinks
2000 ER
2000 Hang Time
2000 Rude Awakening
1999 Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
1999 Mickey Mouse Works
1998 The Tony Danza Show
1998 Kelly Kelly
1997 The Curse of Monkey Island
1997 USA High
1997 Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
1997 Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1996 The Flintstones Christmas in Bedrock
1994-1996 The Ren & Stimpy Show
1995 The Wayans Bros.
1995 Maybe This Time
1995 Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man
1994 Batman
1994 Party of Five
1994 Beverly Hills Cop III
1994 Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is
1993 Disney Sing-Along-Songs: The Twelve Days of Christmas
1993 A Flintstone Family Christmas
1993 Coach
1993 Doogie Howser, M.D.
1993 King B: A Life in the Movies
1992 Raw Toonage
1991 Earth Angel
1990 DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp
1990 City
1990 TaleSpin
1987-1990 DuckTales
1990 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1988-1989 Coming of Age
1989 Super DuckTales
1988 Platinum Blonde
1987 St. Elsewhere
1983-1987 The Chipmunks
1987 DuckTales: Treasure of the Golden Suns
1987 Alice Through the Looking Glass
1982-1986 Smurfs
1986 The Great Mouse Detective
1986 Murder, She Wrote
1986 The Blinkins
1984 Robo Force: The Revenge of Nazgar
1984 Down to Earth
1980-1984 ABC Weekend Specials
1983 The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show
1983 Beauty and the Beast
1983 The Dukes
1983 Mickey's Christmas Carol
1982-1983 The Incredible Hulk
1983 Sitcom
1978-1983 The Love Boat
1983 This Is the Life
1983 Rubik, the Amazing Cube
1981 Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
1979 Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
1978 Black Beauty
1978 Battle of the Planets
1978 The Cat from Outer Space
1976 Baker's Hawk
1976 Gibbsville
1967 Mr. Terrific
1961-1966 Mister Ed
1962 Death Valley Days
1960 The Time Machine
1960 Startime
1959 Five Fingers
1958 tom thumb
1958 Alan Young
1957 The Steve Allen Plymouth Show
1956 Studio 57
1956 Matinee Theatre
1955-1956 Studio One in Hollywood
1956 Chevron Hall of Stars
1955 Star Stage
1955 Screen Directors Playhouse
1955 Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
1954 G.E. True Theater
1952 Androcles and the Lion
1952 Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
1951 The Alan Young Show
1949 Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
1949 Chicken Every Sunday
1946 Margie
