Alan Young

Alan Young was an English-born, Canadian-American actor, voice actor, comedian, radio, and television host/personality who starred in his own radio and television shows in the 1940s and 1950s, with one of his best known TV roles being that of Wilbur Post on the classic prime time sitcom Mister Ed.

For Disney, he provided the voice of Scrooge McDuck from 1974 to 2016, and also voiced Hiram Flaversham in The Great Mouse Detective, and Doctor Cooper in the TaleSpin episode "The Old Man and the Sea Duck". He also played Dr. Winger in The Cat from Outer Space.

He also voiced Mickey Mouse and Merlin in the Disneyland record album An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players, which would be the first and only time that Young voiced them. The album also marked Young's first performance as Scrooge McDuck.

Filmography as Scrooge McDuck
Arguably Alan Young's most notable animated role was that of Scrooge McDuck, a character he voiced for over 40 years, making him one of the longest-running voice actors for the same character in Disney history. While he is best known for portraying Scrooge as the main character in the popular 1987-90 animated series DuckTales, Young portrayed the role throughout a wide variety of Disney projects, including:

1970s

 * An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players

1980s

 * Mickey's Christmas Carol
 * Mickey's Christmas Carol (1987 audiobook version)
 * DuckTales
 * all episodes (with the exception of "Superdoo!", "Sir Gyro de Gearloose" and "Launchpad's Civil War", since Scrooge did not appear in these episodes)
 * Disney Read-Along series
 * Welcome to Duckburg
 * Launchpad's Daring Raid
 * Dinosaur Ducks
 * Scrooge's Treasure Hunt

1990s

 * DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
 * Raw Toonage
 * "The Treasure of the Sierra Marsdre"
 * Disney Sing Along Songs: The Twelve Days of Christmas
 * Disney On Ice
 * Walt Disney's World on Ice: 10th Anniversary
 * Disney theme park appearances
 * Disney Mania
 * Mickey's Starland Show
 * A Sparkling Christmas Spectacular - Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party


 * Mickey Mouse Works
 * "Around the World in Eighty Days"
 * "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
 * Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas

2000s

 * House of Mouse
 * "House of Scrooge"
 * "Snow Day"
 * Disney's Party 
 * Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
 * Disney Th!nk Fast

2010s

 * Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
 * DuckTales Remastered
 * DuckTales: Scrooge's Loot
 * Mickey Mouse (TV series)
 * "Goofy's First Love"
 * "No"

Trivia

 * Although his role as Scrooge McDuck had already been recast in the reboot series of DuckTales, Young was originally going to have a cameo on the new series as a different character. However, these plans were cancelled, as Young passed away before his lines could be recorded.
 * Young was the first actor to voice Scrooge with a genuine Scottish accent. He was raised in the Scottish capital, Edinborough, from the age of 6 onward, and although he had tried to get rid of his Scottish accent when he moved to America, it proved useful when he was cast as Scrooge. Young once said in an interview that it he based Scrooge's voice on the voice of his own father.
 * Young and Scrooge's creator, Disney Legend Carl Barks, were in contact with each other and were familiar with each others' work on the character. Barks told Young that he liked Young's portrayal of Scrooge, and thought it fit the character well.