Wilburied

(Props to Don)
Or
You never heard of a smelly corpse?
Well listen to this.
He is Mr. Dead.
Or
Wilbur Post-humous
Or
Scrooge McDead
(Kudos to observer Craig)
Or
Wilbrrrrr
(Hit tip to Joe)

Alan Young, who channeled his rage at the subjugation by the animal kingdom into becoming the most powerful duck in the world, has died at the age of 96. He parlayed his Emmy-winning turn in The Alan Young Show (because eponymous shows were apparently easy to come by in the 1940s and ‘50s) into a turn as the second fiddle on a sitcom derivative of the low-budget Francis, The Talking Mule movies of the 1950s. Young spent 5 years as klutzy architect Wilbur Post, the much put-upon manservant to Mr. Ed who looks increasingly eccentric due to the fact that Ed only talks to him. His next major role was as Scrooge McDuck in Disney films and DuckTales. He also voiced Farmer Smurf and Hiram Flaversham on The Great Mouse Detective. He played Rod Taylor’s friend in The Time Machine, which led to a role in the 1993 sequel no one remembers and a cameo in the 2002 remake no one watched.