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| Alan Young aka Wilber Post gone at 91 |
| 2016-05-21 |
| [Guardian] Actor-comedian Alan Young, who played the amiable straight man to a talking horse in the 1960s sitcom Mister Ed, has died, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture and Television Home said on Friday. He was 96. The English-born, Canadian-educated Young died Thursday, according to Jaime Larkin, spokeswoman for the retirement community where Young had lived for four years. His children were with him when he died peacefully of natural causes, she said. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Mutt horses make great friends. Posted by: Deacon Blues Good pals indeed. The last correspondence I received from Ed was in the Fall of 1969. I feared the worst. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-05-21 12:33 |
| #3 Yes, truly a bit like Heaven Mr. Ed was a mutt horse part Saddlebred, part Arabian, and nobody knows what else. Mutt horses make great friends. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2016-05-21 11:25 |
| #2 Ditto. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-05-21 07:53 |
| #1 Wiiiiiiiiiiiiilbur, what took you so long? Srsly, a one man architectural firm being run out of a barn/studio with a fine Palamino to talk too. Yes Deacon, it does sound a bit like heaven. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-05-21 06:42 |