Alan Young

Born on November 19, 1919 in North Shields, England, Alan Young began his career in radio but interrupted his career to serve in the Canadian Navy during World War II. Once graduated, he moved to the United States where he made his film debut with the comedy  How I Met Him , by  Henry King , where he had an important role.

After achieving enormous popularity with the sitcom  The Alan Young Show , he starred with  Victor Mature  and  Jean Simmons  in Androcles and the Lion , where he played the character to which the title alludes, an early Christian, who takes pity on a lion, taking a leg spine.

He was also a suitor to  Jane Russell  when she starred in  Gentlemen Marry Brunettes , the sequel to the actress’s great success Gentlemen Prefer Blondes . 

But his greatest success came in 1961, when he starred in  Mister Ed , where he played an architect who had a talking horse in his house. The show shot for the small screen was successful for six years. In interviews they always asked him what was the trick for the animal to move its lips, a secret that he refused to reveal while the program was on the air. But later he revealed it. “One of the producers taught him to open his mouth when he pulled his leg. But the animal was so smart, that in a short time he did it by himself, every time I had just spoken to him, ”he commented.

Married to Mary Anne Grimes since 1941, they divorced in 1947, joining Virginia McCurdy from 1948 until her death in 2011. He had two children with Grimes and two with McCurdy. After the end of  Mister Ed ,  he participated as a supporting role in numerous films, such as  The Cat Who Came From Space , a Walt Disney production where he played a doctor. He worked for the same company for many years, as a dubber in the original version of Uncle Scrooge, the wealthiest relative of Donald Duck.