The Alan Young papers consists of materials pertaining to the career of Alan Young between 1940-2010. The material in this collection are made up of scripts for radio, television, movies, plays and musicals, photographs, art work, memorabilia, magazines and audio/visual materials. Some of Young's most notable works include Mister Ed, Androcles and the Lion, Tom Thumb, and The Time Machine. He was also the voice actor for characters like Scrooge McDuck and Farmer Smurf, among other performances.

Alan Young was born on November 19, 1919, in Tynemouth, England by the name of Angus Young. When he was around 6 or 7, he and his family moved to Canda where, while bed-ridden from asthma from age 10-17, he found solice in listening to The Jack Benny Program and other comedy radio shows. After a start in Canadian radio at the age of 13, Young moved to American radio with The Alan Young Show in 1944. His film debut was Margie in 1946 and a year later his radio show moved to TV. Other movies followed, including Androcles and the Lion (1952), Tom Thumb (1958), and The Time Machine (1960). He is best known, however, for Mister Ed (1961-1966), a CBS television series, in which he starred as Wilbur Post, the owner of Mr. Ed, a talking horse. Young's voice-over roles include Scrooge McDuck in numerous Disney films and in the popular series DuckTales and roles in The Great Mouse Detective, Batman: The Animated Series, The Smurfs, and The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries. In 1997, he did the voice of Haggis McMutton in the PC game The Curse of Monkey Island.

20 Linear Feet; (24 boxes: 8 cartons, 3 document boxes, 8 flat boxes, 2 shoe boxes, 3 tubes)

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