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Alan Young

1919 - 2016

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Alan Young (born Angus Young; November 19, 1919 – May 19, 2016) was a British-born actor, whom TV Guide called "the Charlie Chaplin of television". Young portrayed Wilbur Post in the television comedy Mister Ed (1961–1966) and voiced Disney's Scrooge McDuck for over 40 years, beginning in the 1974 Disneyland Records album An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players. He again voiced Scrooge in the Academy Award-nominated short film Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) and continued in the role in various other films, television series and video games up until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Young has received more than 1,991,900 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Young is the 2,989th most popular actor (up from 3,022nd in 2019), the 2,616th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,681st in 2019) and the 376th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Alan Young ranks 2,989 out of 9,996Before him are Amanda Tapping, Rory McCann, Paul Reubens, Anthony Mackie, Robert Prosky, and Susan Strasberg. After him are Noah Wyle, James Denton, Harry Morgan, Magdaléna Vášáryová, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Suzanne Flon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Alan Young ranks 175Before him are Ivan Sidorenko, Salomon Morel, Wasfi Tal, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Irmgard Seefried, and Angelo Felici. After him are Pál Losonczi, Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Lennie Tristano, Karl H. Pribram, Paolo Soleri, and Carole Landis. Among people deceased in 2016, Alan Young ranks 225Before him are Laura Mancinelli, Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, Jan Němec, Billy Paul, Vladimir Zeldin, and Madeleine Lebeau. After him are Hannes Löhr, Anita Brookner, Michel Delpech, Leonid Zhabotinsky, Harry Wu, and Signe Toly Anderson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alan Young ranks 2,616 out of 7,765Before him are Amanda Tapping (1965), Rory McCann (1969), Harry Seeley (1839), Norman Lockyer (1836), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), and Ron Flowers (1934). After him are Edmund Leach (1910), Mary Dyer (1611), Tony Atkinson (1944), Ken McArthur (1881), Edward Granville Browne (1862), and Mary Toft (1703).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Alan Young ranks 376Before him are Warwick Davis (1970), Richard Bremmer (1953), Gladys Cooper (1888), Jeremy Bulloch (1945), Amanda Tapping (1965), and Rory McCann (1969). After him are Sam Claflin (1986), Julian Sands (1958), Philip Jackson (1948), Minnie Driver (1970), Barry Morse (1918), and Peggy Ashcroft (1907).

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