RIP Alan Young
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 8:55 pm
Alan Young, the Affable Owner on ‘Mister Ed,’ Dies at 96
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/arts/ ... p=cur&_r=0Alan Young, a comedian and veteran supporting actor who found wide fame as an unlikely sort of second fiddle — the hapless straight man to a talking horse in the 1960s sitcom “Mister Ed” — died on Thursday in Woodland Hills, Calif. He was 96.
His publicist, Jaime Larkin, said he died at the Motion Picture & Television Home, where he had been living for four years.
Mr. Young had been a popular radio and television personality and had appeared in several films, including “Tom Thumb” (1958) and “The Time Machine” (1960), when, in his early 40s, he landed the role of Wilbur Post, the bumbling, well-meaning architect who owned a loquacious, fun-loving horse named Mr. Ed.
