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Douglas Hiram Young (December 21, 1919 – January 7, 2018) was an American voice actor, who worked on radio programs and in animated cartoons.

Career[edit]

Early in his career, Young appeared in classic radio shows including The Cisco Kid, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Red Ryder and The Whistler. He was also the announcer on the syndicated radio comedy The Anderson Family, which starred fellow cartoon voice artist Walter Tetley, and aired from 1946 to 1948. Young later went to work for Hanna-Barbera; a master of accent and dialect, he often based his voices on those of famous performers, such as Jimmy Durante and Buddy Hackett. His credits include:

• The Huckleberry Hound Show (Ding-A-Ling Wolf)
• The Flintstones (Various characters)
• Winsome Witch (Various characters)
• The Peter Potamus Show (Yippee)
• Quick Draw McGraw (Doggie Daddy)

He used a Jimmy Durante imitation for Doggie Daddy's voice, but the role was later taken over by John Stephenson. Young was also well known as the 'Grand Poobah' of The Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes in The Flintstones series. As of March 2003, Young had been doing freelance voice work in Seattle, Washington.

Death[edit]

Young died on January 7, 2018 at the age of 98.^[1]

Television[edit]

• Loopy De Loop - Additional voices (1959-1965)
• The Quick Draw McGraw Show - Doggie Daddy / additional voices (1959-1961)
• The Huckleberry Hound Show - Hokey Wolf / Doggie Daddy (1960-1961)
• The Yogi Bear Show - Bigelow / Doggie Daddy / additional voices (1961-1962)
• The Flintstones - 31 episodes - Grand Poobah / additional voices (1962-1966)
• The Magilla Gorilla Show - J. Whimple Dimple / additional voices (1964)
• Jonny Quest - Additional voices (1964-1965)
• The Peter Potamus Show - Yippee / Additional voices (1964-1965)
• Winsome Witch - Additional voices (1965)
• A Laurel and Hardy Cartoon series - Various Characters (1966)
• Animal Follies - Video - Yippee / Doggie Daddy (1988)

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Doug Young on IMDb

Grand Poobah is a term derived from the name of the haughty character Pooh-Bah in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado (1885).^[1] In this comic opera, Pooh-Bah holds numerous exalted offices, including 'First Lord of the Treasury, Lord Chief Justice, Commander-in-Chief, Lord High Admiral ... Archbishop ... Lord Mayor' and 'Lord High Everything Else'. The name has come to be used as a mocking title for someone self-important or locally high-ranking and who either exhibits an inflated self-regard or who has limited authority while taking impressive titles.^[2] The American writer William Safire wrote that 'everyone assumes [the name] Pooh-Bah merely comes from [W. S. Gilbert] combining the two negative exclamations Pooh! plus Bah!, typical put-downs from a typical bureaucrat.'^[3]

In popular culture[edit]

• The term 'Grand Poobah' was used recurringly on the television show The Flintstones as the name of a high-ranking elected position in a secret society, the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes. The main characters, Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, were members of the lodge. The lodge is a spoof of secret societies and men's clubs like the Freemasons, the Shriners, the Elks Club and the Moose Lodge.^[4]
• The character Howard Cunningham on the TV series Happy Days was a Grand Poobah of Leopard Lodge No. 462 in Milwaukee.^[5]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^This character was based, in part, on James Planché's Baron Factotum, the 'Great-Grand-Lord-High-Everything' from The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (1840). Williams (2010), p. 267
2. ^'Pooh-bah', Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, accessed 14 June 2009
3. ^Safire, William. 'Whence Poo-Bah', Safire's Political Dictionary, excerpted in GASBAG, Vol. 24, No. 3, issue 186, p. 28, January–February 1993
4. ^'Loyal Order of Water Buffalo', Grand Lodge Freemasonry site, 8 April 2004, accessed 14 September 2009
5. ^Holmes, Linda. 'RIP Tom Bosley, One Of TV's Great Dads', National Public Radio, 19 October 2010, accessed 6 March 2018. See, e.g. episode #150, 'Burlesque', aired 6 November 1979

Sources[edit]

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• Williams, Carolyn (2010). Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN0-231-14804-6.

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