We lost another classic face of classic films and TV yesterday. Young was 96. He started out his career at 20th Century Fox with Jeanne Crain’s vehicle Margie (1946) where he plays one of her only friends with an interest in poetry. He also made Chicken Every Sunday (1949) with Dan Dailey and Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949) with Clifton Webb and Shirley Temple. After briefly having his own show on TV. He made a few more film appearances like the title character in Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952) with Dinah Shore, cast against type in Androcles and the Lion (1954) with Jean Simmons and Victor Mature, and co-starred with lovely Jeanne Crain again (this time as her leading man) in Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955). At the end of the decade, he played the romantic lead in the charming fantasy Tom Thumb (1958) with Russ Tamblyn and he played Rod Taylor’s friend in the sci-fi masterpiece, The Time Machine (1960). On TV, he played the role he’s best known for, Wilbur Post in “Mister Ed” from 1961 to 1966. The show about a talking horse in the vein of the Francis films where Young was the foil to the talking horse who often had to try to explain his way out of situations. Young ventured in both film and TV for the next decades, becoming familiar to a new generation of people with his voicing of Scrooge McDuck beginning in Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983) and going into the classic TV series “Duck Tales”. He also provided the voice of Hiram Flaversham in Disney’s The Great Mouse Detective (1986). Later on in his career he often provided voices on programs. For his classic characters he’ll still be either watched or heard.
~Bianca
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