Alan Young

Alan Young (born 19 November 1919) was an actor best known for his television role opposite a talking horse, Mister Ed.

He was born in Tyne-and-Wear, England, and raised in Edinburgh and in Canada. He grew to love radio when bedbound as a child because of severe asthma, and became a radio broadcaster on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, then moved to New York where he was given his own television program, The Alan Young Show in 1950. After the cancellation of his show, he made several films: Margie (1946), Chicken Every Sunday (1948), Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949), Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952), Androcles and the Lion (1952), Gentleman Marry Brunettes (1955), Tom Thumb (1958), and The Time Machine (1960).

His most popular venture, however, was Mister Ed, a television show which ran from 1961 to 1966. He played the owner of a talking horse - which would talk to no one but him.

He founded a broadcast division for the Christian Science church.

In later life he did a great deal of voice-over work for animated cartoons and films.