Emmy award-winning actor Alan Young, who rose to fame in the 1960s, has died at the age of 96 his manager announced on Friday. It is reported her passed due to natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, a Los Angeles retirement facility for those in the movie and TV industry.

Alan Young is best known for his role as Wilbur Post during six seasons on “Mister Ed.” In the series, a horse named Mister Ed talked, but only to Wilbur.

Young galloped financially, earning a portion of the show’s profits. The series, which aired from 1961 to 1966, co-starred Connie Hines as Wilbur’s wife and Allan Lane as the horse’s voice.

Fans of the show also fondly remember its theme song, starting with the lyrics: “A horse is a horse, of course, of course. And no one can talk to a horse, of course. That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mister Ed.”

“The Alan Young Show” won an Emmy for best variety show, beating out one of the biggest names in television at the time, Ceaser Sid. The show rain from 1950 to 1953.

Young appeared in films as well, most notably director George Pal’s “The Time Machine,” a 1960 adaptation of the novel by H.G. Wells, starring a time-traveling Rod Taylor. Young’s other films included “Chicken Every Sunday” (1949) with a young Natalie Wood, “Mr. Belvedere Goes to College” (1949) with Shirley Temple and “Androcles and the Lion” (1952) with another animal co-star.

As a voice actor, Young performed as the grumpy Scrooge McDuck and worked on such programs as “The Smurfs” and “Scooby-Doo.”

He was born as Angus Young in England on Nov. 19, 1919, and his family moved to Canada when he was 6. He worked in radio in Canada before moving to Los Angeles and changing his name to Alan. He was a naturalized American citizen.

Yusem, his manager for more than 30 years, said Young had been buried at sea.