I am sad to say that Alan Young, the voice of Scrooge McDuck for more than 30 years, had died yesterday at the age of 96. 

Young first voiced Scrooge on a 1975 Disneyland story record of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, which he also co-wrote and voiced several other characters, including Mickey Mouse. The record would provide the basis for the 1983 featurette Mickey's Christmas Carol, where Young reprised the role of Scrooge. He would be Scoorge's official voice for other Disney TV series, such as DuckTales, House of Mouse, and the new Mickey Mouse shorts.

His other voice roles included Farmer Smurf on The Smurfs, 7-Zark-7 and Keyop on Battle of the Planets, and Haggis MacHaggis on The Ren & Stimpy Show. Of course, he is best known for playing Wilbur Post, the human lead on the classic sitcom Mr. Ed.

We'll miss you, Uncle Scrooge.

I just found out about this while idly browsing through Twitter. My hopes for him voicing Scrooge on the new DuckTales revival are dashed. Rest in peace. Still, 96 is a pretty long time. [scrooge]

Speaking of the DuckTales revival, do we know which voice actors will be in it?

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Sorry to hear that. I really enjoyed his work as Scrooge as well as in "Mr. Ed" and the Pal films.

At least Young got to voice Scrooge right up to the recent Mickey TV shorts.

Now I'm going to fell a little sad reading the Disney comics I bought recently (including the recent complete Barks volume).


As for who's going to voice Scrooge for the new "Duck Tales", I was thinking of maybe Craig Ferguson to do him but I'm not sure if the majority would agree with that.

I knew this was going to happen someday, it's sad that we lost another famous voice actor in animation. May you rest in piece Alan. June Foray is the next one to die in the future since she's around her 90s age.

Lets hope Disney will bring in a new voice actor to play Scrooge McDuck in the upcoming DuckTales reboot.

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 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.

(Reason for edit: I had remembered a few minutes after posting the original version of this message that I had the thoughts about the persons mentioned in it the day before the death of the one named Alan Young rather than the day of his death)

According to this ToonZone article , prior to Young's death Disney had already announced a new voice actor would be playing Scrooge. It doesn't say who, though.

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I had made some improvements to the message I had posted here earlier.

Geez, enough with the deaths already!

He was also in "The Great Mouse Detective" as Hiram Flaversham, basically using his Scrooge McDuck voice. I guess Burny Mattinson (a producer and one of the directors of the film) liked his work in his "Mickey's Christmas Carol," and decided to land him a role in the movie.

RIP to a wonderful actor.

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I'm surprised no o0ne apparently mentioned this...


While I wasn;t a fan of his DuckTales show, I enjoyed his Scrooge McDuck character, whom he played going back to 1983, and of course the cartoonish talking horse live action sitcom Mr.Ed, but Alan Young, b.Vancouver,Canada,1919, has left us..besides what I've mentioned, he did many radio sitcom appearances such as his own show when he himself was, pardon the pun, young, and in fact launched the older Jim Backus's hit career, since Mr.Backus (1913-1989) appeared as Hubert Updyke (the original Mr.Thurston Howell) on Alan Young's show..and Young also appeared with fellow voice artists Terry-Thomas ("The Daydreamer',1966, Rankin/Bass's live-animated Hans Christian Anderson movie that Patty Duke, who also died this year, was in, and "Robin Hood", 1973, the Disney all-animal version) and Stan Freberg in "tom thumb" (1958).

so..RIP Alan Young..

To Pokey J. Anti-Blockhead: I moved your new topic to this thread since there was already an Alan Young topic.

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Thank you very much for including my post. I'd read your reply where my post was originally written.[andy] [buzzy] [audryy] [daffy]