Ohhhhh, Willlburrrrr! :'(

[KeithE4]

Alan Young, who played Wilbur Post on Mister Ed (1960-66), died today of natural causes at age 96.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alan-young-dead-mister-ed-816846?utm_source=twitter

 

[Mario500]

About one day before his death (or the morning of this past Wednesday), I was thinking about him and another person who did voices for the original "DuckTales" TV series named June Foray and the possibility of the new "DuckTales" TV series coming soon having different persons play the characters they had portrayed for the original series due to the possibility of their deaths occurring by the time it's ready to be broadcast. This made me very concerned about whether he, the person named Alan Young, was still alive or not (I was even emotional enough to shed a tear in one of my eyes while it was closed since I was resting at the time); so concerned that I decided to check the page about him on the Internet Movie Database later that day (it had no details about whether he had died recently or not by then). Realizing that he would die later the next day made the news of it very surprising and strange to me.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Glad the obit included the George Burns line, "Get Alan Young. He looks like the sort of fellow a horse would talk to." (You're reading that in Burns' voice, aren't you?) Also, I forgot that Young's real name was the same as a certain Australian rock & roll icon. Young might have had the best line ever about "Mr. Ed"...Talking about the horse that played Ed, he said something along the lines of
, "They changed his name, changed his hair color, and castrated him. Happens to a lot of people in this business."

 

[vchimpanzee]

Sad news. I didn't know he was that old.