Mickey Rooney
AKA: Joseph Yule Jr.
Birthday: 1920-09-23
Died: 2014-04-06
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Home Page:
https://www.mickeyrooney.com/
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).
Filmography
Character: Mr. Cherrywood (voice)
Character: Ding 'Dingy' Bell
Character: J. Dennis 'Denny' O'Moore
Character: Daniel 'Dan' Brady
Character: Erik's Grandfather
Character: Nelson L. Stool
Character: Fugly Floom, the Speechless Man in Hotel
Character: George 'Blue Chips' Packard
Character: Santa Claus (voice)
Character: Kris Kringle aka Santa Claus (voice)
Character: Preston Gilbert
Character: Santa Claus (voice)
Character: Blackie as a Boy
Character: Danny Churchill, Jr.
Character: Lester M. 'Baby Face Nelson' Gillis
Character: Terence Scanlon
Character: MSgt. Yancy Skibo
Character: Richard Miller
Character: Himself - Emcee at the Show
Character: Tommy Williams
Character: William 'Willie' Miller
Character: Michael 'Mi' Taylor
Character: Sparky (voice)
Character: Homer Macauley
Character: 'Killer' John Mears
Character: Thomas Alva 'Tom' Edison
Character: Ted Hackett III as Child
Character: Huckleberry Finn
Character: Stanley Maxton
Character: Timmie Donovan
Character: Tommy McCoy / Killer McCoy
Character: David Prescott
Character: Francis 'Moby' Dickerson
Character: Cook 3 / C W.J. Oglethorpe
Character: Terry O'Mulvaney
Character: Herbert Tuttle
Character: Barnaby 'Blix' Waterberry
Character: Grandpa Spencer
Character: Kermit 'Beetle' McKay
Character: Freddie Frisby
Character: Rev. William Macklin II
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Augustus "Geechy" Cheevers
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Snapper Sinclair
Character: Otto Peterson as a Child
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Wilfred Bashford
Character: Nick Lewis / The Devil
Character: Little Joe Braun
Character: Shockey Carter
Character: Freddie Taylor
Character: Gas Station Attendant
Character: King Charles V
Character: Father Flanagan
Character: John Paul Jones
Character: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
Character: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
Character: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
Character: Timothy Dennis
Character: Oswald (voice) (uncredited)
Character: Guardian Angel
Character: Self - Host / Narrator
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Sgt. Ernest Wartell
Character: Chief of Police
Character: Himself (uncredited)
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Mickey Fitzpatrick (uncredited)
Character: Self - Co-Host / Narrator
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Puck (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Self - Actor (voice)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Paradise Cab Company cabbie
Character: Gladwyn Tootle
Character: Mickey (segment "Sugar Babies")
Character: Boy Shipboard Swimmer (uncredited)
Character: Rocky Mastrasso
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (uncredited)
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Santa Claus (voice)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Andy Hardy (screen test footage) (uncredited)
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Simon / Henry, Sr.
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Scarecrow (voice)
Character: Smalltown Resident
Character: Mickey Rooney (uncredited)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Tommy, a Violin Student
Character: Self (uncredited)
Character: Archive Footage (from March of Dimes)
Character: Buddy Whipple (uncredited)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Freckles (uncredited)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: (archive footage)
Character: The Executioner / Noah
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Professor Mort Sang
Character: Country Boy (uncredited)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Mickey McGuire
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)