Mickey Rooney
from Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
from Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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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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The Voices from Beyond
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Smalltown Resident
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Empire State Building Murders
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Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals
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Hollywood Legenden
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Movie Mason
Wellington
Boss Ed
Tollkeeper
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Sage
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Andy Hardy (archive footage)
Fugly Floom, the Speechless Man in Hotel
Professor Mort Sang
Private Screenings: Mickey Rooney
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Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
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Father Flanagan
O.B. Taggart
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Gabriel
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Grandpa Spencer
Barry Reilly
Pat Jensen
Chief of Police
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Junion
The Director
Joe Petto
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Henry Dailey
Elmer
Erik's Grandfather
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Jack Bergan
James Turner
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Barney Ingram
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Mr. Cherrywood (voice)
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Bill Sackter
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The Engineer
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Papa Joe
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Gas Station Attendant
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Santa Claus (voice)
Rocky Mastrasso
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Nelson L. Stool
The Executioner / Noah
Guardian Angel
Preston Gilbert
Scarecrow (voice)
B.J. Lang
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Indian Tom
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Kris Kringle (voice)
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Norman Jones
Peachy Keane
Terence Scanlon
Ding 'Dingy' Bell
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Johnny Burke
Mike Zampini
Mr. Yunioshi
Kermit 'Beetle' McKay
Nick Lewis / The Devil
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John Mears
Little Joe Braun
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Pinocchio
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Willie Dooley
David Prescott
Frank Sommers
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Eddie Shannon
Mike Forney
Barnaby 'Blix' Waterberry
Francis 'Moby' Dickerson
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Augustus "Geechy" Cheevers
Mike Donnelly
Herbert Tuttle
J. Dennis 'Denny' O'Moore
Stanley Maxton
Director
Daniel 'Dan' Brady
Johnny Casar
Freddie Frisby
Billy Coy
Richard Miller
Lorenz Hart
Tommy McCoy / Killer McCoy
Andy Hardy
Michael 'Mi' Taylor
Mickey McGuire
Andy Hardy
Homer Macauley
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Danny Churchill, Jr.
Personalities
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Timothy Dennis
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Whitey Marsh
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Tommy Williams
Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things
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Thomas Alva 'Tom' Edison
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Huckleberry Finn
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Andy Hardy
Whitey Marsh
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Cinema Circus
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Swifty
Dan Troop
Shockey Carter
Jerry Crump
Timmie Donovan
Andy Hardy
Jimmy
Dick Tipton
'Gig' Stevens
Snapper Sinclair
Freckles
Eddie
Jimmy
Puck
Country Boy (uncredited)
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Tommy Miller
Puck (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mickey McGuire
Tommy, a Violin Student
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Messenger Boy
Blackie as a Boy
Gladwyn Tootle
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Willie Clark
Lead Boy at Circus
Freddie Taylor
William 'Willie' Miller
Boy Shipboard Swimmer (uncredited)
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Jimmy O'Hara
Freckles (uncredited)
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Arthur Wilson
Ted Hackett III as Child
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Willie
Otto Peterson as a Child
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Chubby Dennis
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King Charles V
Midge
Buddy Malone
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Radio Rhythm
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
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Hot Feet
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
The Hare Mail
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The Fisherman
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
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