Also, the horse was named Mister Ed, which is a kind of hilarious thing to name a horse, if we’re being honest about it. Especially since the main human character is named Wilbur.

A show as irreverent as it was funny, Mister Ed ran from 1958 to 1966, but Young didn’t join the regular cast as Wilbur Post until 1961. He played the titular talking horse’s owner, friend and ...

Alan Young — who answered to the name “Willburrrrrrrrrrrrr” on Mister Ed, the wacky 1960s sitcom that revolved around a talking horse — has died. He was 96.

Staring Alan Young, the show followed the friendship between Wilbur Post and his horse Mister Ed, an equine that somehow had the ability to talk. and would only speak to Wilbur.

Alan Young, Two-Legged Star of ‘Mister Ed,’ Dies at 96 Sure, he starred opposite a talking horse on the 1960s CBS sitcom, but he also hosted an Emmy-winning variety show and voiced a popular ...

On the series, which ran from 1961-66 on CBS, Young played architect Wilbur Post, who was married to Carol (played by Connie Hines, who died in 2009) and kept a horse, Mr. Ed, in their suburban ...

Voiced by onetime cowboy actor Allan “Rocky” Lane, Mister Ed (real name: Bamboo Harvester) first turns up when architect Wilbur Post (Alan Young, a radio star of the 1940s who moved into films ...

Alan Young, who gamely played straight man to a talking horse for five years in classic sitcom "Mr. Ed," died Thursday at the Motion Picture and Television Home in Woodland Hills, Calif. He was 96 ...

Alan Young, an Emmy Award-winning comic actor best remembered for playing Wilbur, the human sidekick and wonky owner of a talking palomino horse in the 1960s television sitcom “Mister Ed ...

This July 31, 1997 photo shows actor Alan Young of the "Mister Ed" TV series, posing with Champagne, a 13-year-old Palomino mare in San Francisco. Young died Thursday, May 19, 2016. He was 96. (AP ...

If you watched “Mister Ed” on TV, you know whom I’m talking about, but instead of Wilbur, I got Ed Burgart, a.k.a. Mister Ed, the Los Al handicapping expert. What a letdown.