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Alan Young (born November 19, 1919Alan Young is an actor best known for his television role opposite a talking horse, .

He was born in Tyne and Wear, England, and raised in Edinburgh and in Canada. He grew to love radio when bedbound as a child because of severe asthma, and became a radio broadcaster on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, then moved to New York where he was given his own television program, , a CBS television show which ran from 1961 to 1966. He played the owner of a talking horse - which would talk to no one but him.

He founded a broadcast division for the Christian Science church.

In later life he has done a great deal of voice acting for animated cartoons and films. He has been the voice of Scrooge McDuck in many Disney films and television series since in 1983 (where, as Scrooge McDuck, he portrays the character's miserly namesake). He also provides the voice of Jack Allen on the Focus on the Family radio drama . Additionally Young provided the voice of the kilt-wearing barber-pirate Haggis McMutton in the highly acclaimed computer-adventure game (Monkey Island 3). Not too surprisingly the character's voice is very similar to that of Scrooge.