Mickey Rooney

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, producer, and radio personality. In a career spanning nine decades and continuing until shortly before his death, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent film era. At the height of a career that was marked by declines and comebacks, Rooney performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomized American family values. A versatile performer, he became a celebrated character actor later in his career. Laurence Olivier once said he considered Rooney "the best there has ever been". Clarence Brown, who directed him in two of his earliest dramatic roles, National Velvet and The Human Comedy, said he was "the closest thing to a genius I ever worked with". Rooney first performed in vaudeville as a child and made his film debut at the age of six. At 14, he played Puck in the play and later the 1935 film adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Critic David Thomson hailed his performance as "one of the cinema's most arresting pieces of magic". In 1938, he co-starred in Boys Town. At 19, he was the first teenager to be nominated for an Oscar for his leading role in Babes in Arms, and he was awarded a special Academy Juvenile Award in 1939. At the peak of his career between the ages of 15 and 25, he made 43 films, which made him one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most consistently successful actors and a favorite of MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer. Rooney was the top box-office attraction from 1939 to 1941 and one of the best-paid actors of that era, but his career would never again rise to such heights. Drafted into the Army during World War II, he served nearly two years entertaining over two million troops on stage and radio and was awarded a Bronze Star for performing in combat zones. Returning from the war in 1945, he was too old for juvenile roles but too short to be an adult movie star, and was unable to get as many starring roles. Nevertheless, Rooney's popularity was renewed with well-received supporting roles in films such as Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and The Black Stallion (1979). In the early 1980s, he returned to Broadway in Sugar Babies and again became a celebrated star. Rooney made hundreds of appearances on TV, including dramas, variety programs, and talk shows, and won an Emmy in 1982 plus a Golden Globe for his role in Bill (1981).

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1920-09-23
  • event Death Date 2014-04-06
  • school Known for: Acting
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  • info Birth Place Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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7.7

Breakfast at Tiffany's

1961-10-06

6.6

Night at the Museum

2006-12-20

0

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

1985-01-01

7.2

The Fox and the Hound

1981-07-10

6.4

Pete's Dragon

1977-11-03

6

The Care Bears Movie

1985-03-23

7

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1963-11-07

7

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1936-03-06

5.5

My Outlaw Brother

1951-08-22

6.1

Quicksand

1950-03-24

6.8

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

1989-07-15

5.8

Erik the Viking

1989-09-01

5.8

The Domino Principle

1977-03-23

6.2

Evil Roy Slade

1972-02-18

9

The Comedian

1957-02-14

5.7

Babe: Pig in the City

1998-11-25

6.4

Babes in Arms

1939-10-10

6.2

Phantom of the Megaplex

2000-11-10

4.9

Skidoo

1968-12-19

3.6

The Thirsting

2006-01-01

7.2

The Year Without a Santa Claus

1974-12-10

7.1

Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

1970-12-14

6.2

Drive a Crooked Road

1954-03-10

2

Hollywood Legenden

2004-01-01

5.7

Pulp

1972-11-01

6.6

Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July

1979-07-01

7

Manhattan Melodrama

1934-05-04

4.7

The Happy Elf

2005-12-02

6

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

1954-12-01

5.6

Girl Crazy

1943-11-26

5.8

Baby Face Nelson

1957-12-11

5.7

The Secret Invasion

1964-09-16

6.8

Boys Town

1938-09-08

6.7

Bill: On His Own

1983-11-09

6.6

Bill

1981-12-22

0

Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals

2005-01-01

0

Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved

2010-02-10

0

Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon

2010-02-10

2

High Speed

1932-04-02

6.4

Operation Mad Ball

1957-08-17

6

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein

1961-06-11

4.6

Andy Hardy's Double Life

1942-12-01

4.9

Summer Holiday

1948-04-15

5.8

Words and Music

1948-12-31

5.3

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

1946-12-25

6.4

Thousands Cheer

1943-09-13

5.7

Life Begins for Andy Hardy

1941-08-15

5.3

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

1941-02-21

6.4

Babes on Broadway

1941-12-31

5.1

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

1940-07-05

6.2

Strike Up the Band

1940-09-27

5.5

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

1939-07-21

6.2

Love Finds Andy Hardy

1938-07-22

6

The Hunter

1931-10-11

0

The Our Gang Story

1994-01-01

7.1

Hide-Out

1934-08-24

7.4

Captains Courageous

1937-06-25

10

Marilyn and I

2019-01-20

7.3

National Velvet

1945-01-26

6.3

The Human Comedy

1943-03-02

7.1

The Black Stallion

1979-10-13

6

Trifles of Importance

1940-07-13

6.2

The Life of Jimmy Dolan

1933-06-03

6.4

Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure

2001-02-18

10

Showbiz Goes to War

1982-12-31

0

Empire State Building Murders

2008-08-14

4.5

Hollywood Handicap

1938-05-28

6.2

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

1984-12-15

3.8

The Manipulator

1971-12-15

0

Mickey's Whirlwinds

1930-04-27

4.9

Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker

1991-11-06

5.9

Arabian Adventure

1979-07-08

5.6

The Courtship of Andy Hardy

1942-03-03

6.3

The Last Mile

1959-02-18

7.2

Requiem for a Heavyweight

1962-10-16

1.5

A Christmas Too Many

2007-12-04

3.4

Michael Kael vs. the World News Company

1998-02-18

5.6

Young Tom Edison

1940-03-15

5.7

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

1944-05-04

6.2

The Comic

1969-11-19

0

Killing Midnight

1997-01-01

6.4

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1939-02-10

0

Hollywood Blue

1970-11-18

5.7

The Strip

1951-08-31

5.8

The Fireball

1950-11-09

5.8

The Big Wheel

1949-11-04

6

Killer McCoy

1947-12-01

5.7

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

1937-11-25

5.3

The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams

2005-07-15

4.6

Broadway to Hollywood

1933-09-15

5.4

The Magic of Lassie

1978-08-02

5.1

Francis in the Haunted House

1956-07-09

2.6

The Extraordinary Seaman

1969-05-14

6

All Ashore

1953-03-03

0

Sound Off

1952-05-15

5

Ambush Bay

1966-05-10

6.2

Out West with the Hardys

1938-11-25

5.3

Judge Hardy and Son

1939-12-22

6.3

Ah, Wilderness!

1935-12-25

4.8

Rendezvous

1935-10-25

5

Riffraff

1936-01-03

7.1

Lord Jeff

1938-06-17

6.3

Men of Boys Town

1941-04-11

6

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972-01-10

6

Off Limits

1952-12-30

6.1

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

1991-03-01

3.3

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed

1958-12-01

6.1

Judge Hardy's Children

1938-03-26

0

Creole

1981-01-01

4.2

The Atomic Kid

1954-12-08

6.2

The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

1986-04-18

0

Fol-de-Rol

1972-02-27

6

The Hardys Ride High

1939-04-21

4.5

Andy Hardy Comes Home

1958-12-22

5.7

A Family Affair

1937-03-12

5.2

You're Only Young Once

1937-12-10

0

Cinema Circus

1937-01-27

6.3

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

1970-04-01

2.4

Revenge of the Red Baron

1994-09-28

6.3

Officer Thirteen

1932-11-26

6

Platinum High School

1960-05-13

7.5

Everything's Ducky

1961-12-20

3.3

He's a Cockeyed Wonder

1950-12-02

5.6

The Bold and the Brave

1956-01-04

4.5

The Big Chance

1933-08-28

7

The Twinkle In God's Eye

1955-10-13

7.2

The First of May

1999-03-20

6

Mickey's Race

1933-04-13

5.7

The Healer

1935-06-14

3

Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights

1998-06-11

5.3

Slave Ship

1937-06-16

6

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

1982-01-01

4

A Slight Case of Larceny

1953-06-05

5.8

Live, Love and Learn

1937-10-29

5.5

The Devil in Love

1966-12-21

6

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

2019-10-13

0

Mr. Broadway

1957-05-11

7.3

Animals with the Tollkeeper

1998-01-06

4.5

Stablemates

1938-10-07

6.5

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983-02-25

0

Mickey's Ape Man

1933-01-19

0

Mickey's Luck

1930-03-29

5.5

Down the Stretch

1936-09-18

4.8

The World Changes

1933-11-25

7.2

Home for Christmas

1990-12-02

0

Mickey in School

1928-02-06

0

Mickey's Eleven

1927-11-07

0

Mickey's Surprise

1929-09-14

2

Mickey's Pals

1927-10-02

0

Mickey's Great Idea

1929-01-29

0

Mickey the Detective

1928-10-27

0

Mickey's Wildcats

1931-09-11

0

Mickey's Rebellion

1931-06-23

0

Mickey's Big Game Hunt

1928-12-22

0

Mickey's Northwest Mounted

1929-06-08

0

Mickey's Mix-Up

1929-10-12

0

Mickey's Big Moment

1929-11-09

0

Mickey's Explorers

1929-02-17

0

Mickey's Warriors

1930-05-24

0

Mickey's Stampede

1931-02-06

0

Mickey's Champs

1930-02-02

5

Mickey's Thrill Hunters

1931-09-18

0

Mickey's Movies

1928-09-02

0

Mickey's Touchdown

1933-10-13

0

Mickey's Covered Wagon

1933-11-29

0

Mickey's Tent Show

1933-10-26

0

Mickey's Minstrels

1934-01-10

0

Mickey the Great

1945-04-06

0

Mickey's Medicine Man

1934-05-17

0

Mickey's Rescue

1934-03-22

4.6

80 Steps to Jonah

1969-12-01

0

The Voice of Hollywood No. 8

1930-03-24

3

The Private Lives of Adam and Eve

1960-01-20

5.7

Love Is a Headache

1938-01-14

0

Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star

2006-01-21

5.8

The Big Operator

1959-08-01

6

Hoosier Schoolboy

1937-07-07

8

Leave 'Em Laughing

1981-04-29

6.5

Hold That Kiss

1938-05-13

8.5

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

1995-06-05

0

Mickey's Rivals

1928-09-30

0

Mickey's Midnite Follies

1929-08-18

0

Mickey's Menagerie

1929-03-17

5.3

Reckless

1935-04-19

6.4

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1935-10-09

3.5

Lightning, the White Stallion

1986-10-17

6.2

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

2014-12-17

4.3

Making Waves

1994-01-01

5.4

Twenty-Four Hours to Kill

1965-03-08

7

The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

2007-09-02

0

The Chief

1933-11-03

7

Blind Date

1934-07-20

5.5

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

1965-07-14

3

Thunder County

1974-01-01

5.3

Sin's Pay Day

1932-03-02

6.9

The Devil Is a Sissy

1936-09-18

0

My Pal, the King

1932-04-03

5

Boys Will Be Boys

1999-02-24

4.9

Sweet Justice

1993-04-07

5.4

The Legend of Wolf Mountain

1992-09-01

6

Brothers' Destiny

1995-01-01

0

Rachel's Man

1976-04-01

0

Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective

2009-01-13

0

The Fisherman

1931-12-07

0

The Hare Mail

1931-11-30

6.5

Radio Rhythm

1931-07-26

6

Bluegrass

1988-02-28

5.3

Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)

1939-01-09

0

Who Killed Julie Greer?

1961-09-26

6.2

A Yank at Eton

1942-09-01

5

Hot Feet

1931-09-13

6

Richard

1972-07-31

8

Lost Stallions: The Journey Home

2008-06-13

7.3

That's Entertainment!

1974-06-21

0

Private Screenings: Mickey Rooney

1997-04-01

6

Mickey's Circus

1927-09-03

0

Mickey's Brown Derby

1929-05-11

6.5

Anthony Quinn: An Original

1990-09-10

5

Maximum Force

1992-10-07

0

Driving Me Crazy

2012-01-06

5.3

Rodeo Dough

1940-11-09

6

My Kidnapper, My Love

1980-12-08

3.8

Find the Lady

1976-11-11

10

Internet Love

1998-07-03

6.2

There Must Be a Pony

1986-10-05

6.4

Little Spies

1986-10-05

0

Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things

1940-01-01

7

Showbiz Kids

2020-07-14

6

Vienna

1968-01-01

6.8

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976-05-16

0

The Voices from Beyond

2012-02-20

6

The Big Cage

1933-05-01

3

The Milky Life

1993-02-23

5.3

Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy

1998-10-01

0

Mickey's Disguises

1933-07-17

3.5

The Lost Jungle

1934-06-13

5.8

Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

2017-06-09

5

Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart

1995-02-17

3.5

The Emperor of Peru

1982-12-09

5.9

The Beast of the City

1932-02-13

0

Cinema Stars - No. 15

1925-01-01

6.9

That's Entertainment! III

1994-07-01

0

Night Club

2011-04-11

0

Mickey's Battle

1927-12-05

0

Mickey's Little Eva

1928-04-01

0

Judy Garland Duets

2005-06-04

4.9

The Magic Voyage

1992-04-09

4.2

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

2017-01-31

0

Magnificent Roughnecks

1956-07-22

5.5

The Intruder

1975-01-01

4

To Kill a Mockumentary

2004-01-01

0

Pinocchio

1957-10-13

7

Death on the Diamond

1934-09-14

5.5

A Dream Comes True

1935-12-31

5.6

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

1935-11-20

7

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

2008-10-14

7

Show-Business at War

1943-05-21

7.5

Judy Garland: By Myself

2004-02-25

6.5

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940-07-31

5.7

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975-08-06

5.5

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

1940-05-29

10

Adventures of the Black Stallion

1990-09-15

0

Ace of Hearts

1975-08-22

6

Fast Companions

1932-06-22

0

Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'

1991-01-01

0

From the Ends of the Earth

1939-05-28

6.7

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

1940-10-24

8

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

1986-03-09

0

From Raquel with Love

1980-11-23

6

Love Birds

1934-05-04

6

Donovan's Kid

1979-01-07

6

The Outrageous Sophie Tucker

2014-05-02

5

The County Chairman

1935-01-11

6.8

Chained

1934-08-31

5.6

Broadway's Lost Treasures

2003-08-10

0

Half a Sinner

1934-06-01

0

The Godmothers

1973-12-12

4.2

Senior Trip

1981-12-30

5

Another Romance of Celluloid

1938-02-05

9.5

Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner

2019-05-22

7.5

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

2009-07-02

0

Mickey's Wild West

1928-05-07

7

It's Showtime

1976-03-31

0

Mickey's 50

1978-11-19

6.1

A Miser Brothers' Christmas

2008-12-13

7.6

Sid & Judy

2019-06-26

0

Personalities

1942-01-01

0

Illusion Infinity

2004-01-01

4.5

Orchids and Ermine

1927-03-06

8.2

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

1990-02-20

5.2

Journey Back to Oz

1972-12-14

6.7

The Muppets

2011-11-22

4

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

1939-04-08

5.2

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

1971-12-31

0

Hollywood’s Children

1982-02-24

4.8

From Hong Kong with Love

1975-12-17

7.8

Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon

2011-11-02

0

Screen Snapshots: Mickey Rooney, Then and Now

1953-03-19

8

Liberation

1994-01-01

0

Beloved

1934-01-22

0

The Lion Roars Again

1975-01-01

0

Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler

1983-01-01

10

March of Dimes

1938-01-01

0

The Polio Crusade

2009-02-02

7

I Like it That Way

1934-04-01

6

Night of 100 Stars

1982-03-08

10

Child Star

2024-09-17

6.8

The Norm Show

1999-03-24

8.1

The Simpsons

1989-12-17

4.2

The Dick Powell Show

1961-09-26

6

Burke's Law

1963-09-20

6.5

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

1993-01-27

7

The Colgate Comedy Hour

1950-09-10

6.3

The Adventures of the Black Stallion

1992-01-05

5.4

Kraft Suspense Theatre

1963-10-10

7.6

The Golden Girls

1985-09-14

6

The Care Bears

1985-09-14

7.1

The Lucy Show

1962-10-01

8.1

E! True Hollywood Story

1996-08-21

5.3

Naked City

1958-09-30

6.5

Mike Hammer, Private Eye

1997-09-28

7.6

Full House

1987-09-22

7.6

Combat!

1962-10-02

7.9

Night Gallery

1970-12-16

6.6

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948-06-20

5.5

General Electric Theater

1953-02-01

6

Private Screenings

0

Mickey

1964-09-16

8.4

The Twilight Zone

1959-10-02

7.9

ER

1994-09-19

0

Above the Line

2008-07-23

7

Rawhide

1959-01-09

7.3

The Fugitive

1963-09-17

4.5

The Hollywood Palace

1964-01-04

6.5

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

1967-09-09

6.5

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951-10-05

6.4

This Is Your Life

1952-10-01

6.5

Pete and Gladys

1960-09-19

7.4

The Dean Martin Show

1965-09-16

6.3

Conan the Adventurer

1997-09-22

7.7

MGM: When the Lion Roars

1992-03-22

4

The Steve Allen Show

1956-06-24

7.6

The Match Game

1962-12-31

4.3

One of the Boys

1982-01-23

7

The Oscars

1953-03-19

6.7

Hey Mulligan

1954-08-28

6

Startime

1959-10-06

8

Jack's Place

1992-05-26

6

The George Gobel Show

1954-10-02

0

This Is Your Life

1983-09-24

8

The Judy Garland Show

1963-12-08

6.3

The Love Boat

1977-09-24

7.6

The Jack Benny Program

1950-10-28

7.4

Playhouse 90

1956-10-04

6

Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...

1991-08-29

4.2

The Dick Powell Show

1961-09-26

4.2

The Dick Powell Show

1961-09-26

6.6

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948-06-20

6.6

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948-06-20

7

The Bob Hope Show

1950-04-09

5

Arrest and Trial

1963-09-15

5.7

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

1957-07-29

6.5

Dan August

1970-09-23

7.6

Murder, She Wrote

1984-09-30

7.4

Celebrity Ghost Stories

2009-10-03

5.5

December Bride

1954-10-04

5.2

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963-10-04

7.6

The Carol Burnett Show

1967-09-11

4

The Steve Allen Show

1956-06-24

4

The Steve Allen Show

1956-06-24

4.9

The Mike Douglas Show

1961-12-11

4.5

The Hollywood Palace

1964-01-04

6.6

What's My Line?

1950-02-02

5

Legends

2006-11-17

7.4

The Red Skelton Show

1951-09-30

7

American Dad!

2005-02-06

5

The Danny Thomas Hour

1967-09-11

7.4

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962-10-01

7.6

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954-10-27

6.4

Wagon Train

1957-09-18

7

The Jerry Lewis Show

1963-09-21

6.6

What's My Line?

1950-02-02

4.9

Great Performances

1971-01-28

7.6

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954-10-27

5

Tony Awards

1956-04-01

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