Mickey Rooney
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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).
Known for
The Simpsons
Mickey Rooney (voice)
American Dad!
Short Producer (voice)
The Carol Burnett Show
Self - Guest / Various Characters
The Jack Benny Program
Self / Killer Looney
Great Performances
Self
What's My Line?
Self
What's My Line?
Self - Panelist
Burke's Law
Archie Lido
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
Murder, She Wrote
Matt Cleveland
Wagon Train
Samuel T. Evans
This Is Your Life
Self
The Twilight Zone
Michael Grady
Omnibus
Self
Full House
The Steve Allen Show
Self
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Comedian
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Guest
ER
George Bikel
The Hollywood Palace
Self - Singer
The Hollywood Palace
Self
The Golden Girls
Rocco
The Lucy Show
Mickey Rooney
Combat!
Harry White
The Care Bears
Arrest and Trial
Hoagy Blair
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Harold Lang
December Bride
Self
Pete and Gladys
The Match Game
Himself - Team Captain
Rawhide
Pan Macropolous
The Love Boat
Dominicus Angelara
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee/Performer
The Fugitive
Charlie Paris
The Danny Thomas Hour
Self
Playhouse 90
Sammy Hogarth
Jack's Place
The Oscars
Self
Remember WENN
Mr. Hardy
The George Gobel Show
Self
The Norm Show
Dan August
Kenny O'Malley
The Dean Martin Show
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Sheriff Williams
Legends
Self
Conan the Adventurer
Naked City
George Bick
Mike Hammer, Private Eye
Hey Mulligan
Mickey Mulligan
This Is Your Life
Self
The Wonderful World of Disney
Old Bailey
The Wonderful World of Disney
James Turner (The Hermit)
The Adventures of the Black Stallion
Night Gallery
August Kolodney
Mickey
Mickey Grady
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
One of the Boys
Night at the Museum
Gus
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Ding 'Dingy' Bell
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Gus
Above the Line
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Mr. Yunioshi
E! True Hollywood Story
Startime
The Fox and the Hound
Tod (voice)
General Electric Theater
Al Roberts
The Jerry Lewis Show
Self
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Red McGivney
The Muppets
Smalltown Resident
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Andy Hardy
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
Sparky (voice)
Skidoo
George 'Blue Chips' Packard
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
Flip (voice)
The Big Wheel
Billy Coy
MGM: When the Lion Roars
Babe: Pig in the City
Fugly Floom, the Speechless Man in Hotel
The Black Stallion
Henry Dailey
Pete's Dragon
Lampie
The Judy Garland Show
Self
Erik the Viking
Erik's Grandfather
The Care Bears Movie
Mr. Cherrywood (voice)
Captains Courageous
Dan Troop
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Santa Claus (voice)
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Mike Forney
The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
Self
The Domino Principle
Spiventa
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
Kris Kringle aka Santa Claus (voice)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn
Boys Town
Whitey Marsh
Manhattan Melodrama
Blackie as a Boy
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Dick Tipton
My Outlaw Brother
J. Dennis 'Denny' O'Moore
National Velvet
Michael 'Mi' Taylor
Liberation
Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars
Self
That's Entertainment! III
Self - Co-Host / Narrator
Operation Mad Ball
MSgt. Yancy Skibo
Arabian Adventure
Daad El Shur
Hoosier Schoolboy
Shockey Carter
Showbiz Kids
Self (archive footage)
Babes on Broadway
Tommy Williams
That's Entertainment!
Self - Host / Narrator
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
Mickey Rooney (uncredited)
Phantom of the Megaplex
Movie Mason
Drive a Crooked Road
Eddie Shannon
Young Tom Edison
Thomas Alva 'Tom' Edison
Live, Love and Learn
Jerry Crump
Babes in Arms
Mickey Moran
Words and Music
Lorenz Hart
The Gambler: The Luck Of The Draw
The Director
Little Spies
James Turner
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Andy Hardy
Journey Back to Oz
Scarecrow (voice)
Quicksand
Daniel 'Dan' Brady
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
(archive footage)
Death on the Diamond
Mickey
Strike Up the Band
Jimmy Connors
From Hong Kong with Love
Marty
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Freckles (uncredited)
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Army
Sid & Judy
Self (archive footage)
Rendezvous
Country Boy (uncredited)
Reckless
Eddie
Empire State Building Murders
Mickey Silver
Evil Roy Slade
Nelson L. Stool
The Comic
Cockeye
Pulp
Preston Gilbert
Chained
Boy Shipboard Swimmer (uncredited)
Lord Jeff
Terry O'Mulvaney
The Beast of the City
Mickey Fitzpatrick (uncredited)
Riffraff
Jimmy
A Miser Brothers' Christmas
Santa Claus (voice)
The Secret Invasion
Terence Scanlon
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Peachy Keane
Francis in the Haunted House
David Prescott
Baby Face Nelson
Lester M. 'Baby Face Nelson' Gillis
Boys Will Be Boys
Wellington
The Atomic Kid
Barnaby 'Blix' Waterberry
Love Finds Andy Hardy
Andy Hardy
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker
Joe Petto
There Must Be a Pony
Himself (uncredited)
Hooray for Hollywood
Narrator
The Devil Is a Sissy
'Gig' Stevens
Night Club
Jerry Sherman
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Self (archive footage)
The Strip
Stanley Maxton
Ah, Wilderness!
Tommy Miller
Ambush Bay
Sgt. Ernest Wartell
Mickey's 50
Self
Off Limits
Herbert Tuttle
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Mr. Louis
Men of Boys Town
Whitey Marsh
The Devil in Love
Adramelek
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
Timmie Donovan
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
Senior Trip
Self
A Family Affair
Andy Hardy
Show-Business at War
Self
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
Norman Jones
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Mike Halligan
The Polio Crusade
Archive Footage (from March of Dimes)
Summer Holiday
Richard Miller
Broadway's Lost Treasures
Mickey (segment "Sugar Babies")
Maximum Force
Chief of Police
The Human Comedy
Homer Macauley
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
Santa Claus (voice)
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Andy Hardy
Sweet Justice
Zeke
Andy Hardy Comes Home
Andy Hardy
The Happy Elf
Santa Claus
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
Andy Hardy
The Bold and the Brave
Willie Dooley
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
Self
Thousands Cheer
Himself - Emcee at the Show
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
Andy Hardy
Killer McCoy
Tommy McCoy / Killer McCoy
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Extraordinary Seaman
Cook 3 / C W.J. Oglethorpe
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Junion
Sound Off
Mike Donnelly
Judy Garland: By Myself
Self - Actor (voice)
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Andy Hardy
Leave 'Em Laughing
Jack Thum
The Big Operator
Little Joe Braun
Hollywood Handicap
Himself
The Comedian
Sammy Hogarth
Andy Hardy's Double Life
Andy Hardy
Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights
Sage
Girl Crazy
Danny Churchill, Jr.
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
(archive footage)
The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams
David McCord
The Lost Jungle
Lead Boy at Circus
Out West with the Hardys
Andy Hardy
You're Only Young Once
Andy Hardy
The Hardys Ride High
Andy Hardy
Broadway to Hollywood
Ted Hackett III as Child
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
O.B. Taggart
Another Romance of Celluloid
Self (uncredited)
A Dream Comes True
Puck (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Blue
Hide-Out
William 'Willie' Miller
Love Is a Headache
Mike O'Toole
The Fireball
Johnny Casar
Hollywood, The Dream Life of Lana Turner
Self (archive footage)
Revenge of the Red Baron
Grandpa Spencer
Slave Ship
Swifty
Animals with the Tollkeeper
Tollkeeper
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
Andy Hardy
To Kill a Mockumentary
Max
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Self (archive footage)
The Magic of Lassie
Gus
Richard
Guardian Angel
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Johnny Burke
The Chief
Willie
The Healer
Jimmy
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Self (archive footage)
Bill
Bill Sackter
Hold That Kiss
Chick Evans
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Indian Tom
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
Andy Hardy (archive footage)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Mickey Rooney
The Lion Roars Again
Self (uncredited)
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Jack Bergan
Hollywood’s Children
Self (archive footage)
Blind Date
Freddie Taylor
I Like it That Way
Messenger Boy
Judge Hardy and Son
Andy Hardy
Bluegrass
John Paul Jones
Illusion Infinity
Simon / Henry, Sr.
Find the Lady
Trigger
Adventures of the Black Stallion
Henry Dailey
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
Self (archive footage)
Rachel's Man
Laban
The Last Mile
'Killer' John Mears
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Self
Lightning, the White Stallion
Barney Ingram
The Magic Voyage
Narrator (voice)
Who Killed Julie Greer?
Mike Zampini
Judge Hardy's Children
Andy Hardy
Trifles of Importance
Self (archive footage)
Officer Thirteen
Buddy Malone
O’Malley
Mickey O’Malley
Brothers' Destiny
Father Flanagan
A Slight Case of Larceny
Augustus "Geechy" Cheevers
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
Self - Actor
The Legend of Wolf Mountain
Pat Jensen
Donovan's Kid
Bailey
Driving Me Crazy
Mr. Cohen
The World Changes
Otto Peterson as a Child
Thunder County
Gas Station Attendant
A Christmas Too Many
Grandpa
All Ashore
Francis 'Moby' Dickerson
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
The Intruder
Capt. Jenkins
The Thirsting
Savy
From the Ends of the Earth
Self
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
Self (archive footage)
The Big Cage
Jimmy O'Hara
Stablemates
Mickey
Hollywood Legenden
Self
80 Steps to Jonah
Wilfred Bashford
Half a Sinner
Willie Clark
Beloved
Tommy, a Violin Student
Personalities
Andy Hardy (screen test footage) (uncredited)
Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
Andy Hardy
The Emperor of Peru
The Engineer
Cinema Circus
Himself
Ace of Hearts
Papa Joe
A Yank at Eton
Timothy Dennis
Home for Christmas
Elmer
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
Nick Lewis / The Devil
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
Self
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Mickey Rooney
The Big Chance
Arthur Wilson
Bill: On His Own
Bill Sackter
Down the Stretch
Snapper Sinclair
The Twinkle In God's Eye
Rev. William Macklin II
Mickey's Whirlwinds
Mickey McGuire
Platinum High School
Steven Conway
The Our Gang Story
Self (archive footage)
The Manipulator
B.J. Lang
Fol-de-Rol
The Executioner / Noah
Everything's Ducky
Kermit 'Beetle' McKay
My Pal, the King
King Charles V
Internet Love
Self
Vienna
Pinocchio
Pinocchio
The Godmothers
Rocky Mastrasso
The Voices from Beyond
Johnny O'Hara
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Gus Harris
Mickey's Pals
Mickey McGuire
My Kidnapper, My Love
The Maker
The Milky Life
Barry Reilly
From Raquel with Love
Paradise Cab Company cabbie
Rodeo Dough
Mickey Rooney
The First of May
Boss Ed
Fast Companions
Midge
Mickey's Ape Man
Mickey McGuire
High Speed
Buddy Whipple (uncredited)
Sin's Pay Day
Chubby Dennis
March of Dimes
Mickey
Screen Snapshots: Mickey Rooney, Then and Now
Himself
Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon
Self
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
Self
Mickey's Battle
Mickey McGuire
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
Self
Judy Garland Duets
Self (archive footage)
The Hunter
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
He's a Cockeyed Wonder
Freddie Frisby
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things
Andy Hardy
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
Magnificent Roughnecks
Frank Sommers
Orchids and Ermine
Mickey McGuire
The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host
Mickey's Wild West
Mickey McGuire
Love Birds
Gladwyn Tootle
Mickey's Big Moment
Mickey McGuire
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The County Chairman
Freckles
Killing Midnight
Professor Mort Sang
The Red Skelton Show
Self / Perry Masonjar
Mickey's Touchdown
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Menagerie
Mickey McGuire
The Hare Mail
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
Lost Stallions: The Journey Home
Chief
Creole
Narrator
Mickey's Champs
Mickey McGuire
The Voice of Hollywood No. 8
Mickey's Rebellion
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Warriors
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Explorers
Mickey McGuire
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
Griffith
Mickey's Rivals
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Big Game Hunt
Mickey McGuire
The Fisherman
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
Mickey's Medicine Man
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Minstrels
Mickey McGuire
Mickey in School
Mickey McGuire
Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals
Self
Mickey's Brown Derby
Mickey McGuire
Making Waves
Gabriel
Mickey's Wildcats
Mickey McGuire
Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective
Self (archive footage)
Mickey's Midnite Follies
Mickey McGuire
Marilyn and I
Self (archive footage)
Mickey's Northwest Mounted
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Busy Day
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Covered Wagon
Mickey McGuire
Mr. Broadway
Mickey the Great
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Mix-Up
Mickey McGuire
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Accepting Special Award to Cantinflas
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
Hot Feet
Oswald (voice) (uncredited)
Mickey's Disguises
Mickey McGuire
The Bob Hope Show
Self
Mickey's Eleven
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Little Eva
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Surprise
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Luck
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Rescue
Mickey McGuire
Private Screenings: Mickey Rooney
Self
Mickey's Circus
Mickey McGuire
Treasure Train
Mickey's Tent Show
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Race
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Great Idea
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Movies
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Stampede
Mickey McGuire
Mickey's Thrill Hunters
Mickey McGuire
The Dick Powell Show
Mike Zampini
The Dick Powell Show
Augie Miller
The Dick Powell Show
Putt-Putt Higgins
Mickey the Detective
Mickey McGuire
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Lefty Duncan
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
George M. Cohan
Radio Rhythm
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
Cinema Stars - No. 15
Private Screenings
Self
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Self
Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...
Self