Mickey Rooney
Acting
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).
Babe: Pig in the City
as Fugly Floom, the Speechless Man in Hotel
Age 78 (now 93)
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
as Kris Kringle aka Santa Claus (voice)
Age 50 (now 93)
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Santa Claus (voice)
Age 54 (now 93)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Ding 'Dingy' Bell
Age 43 (now 93)
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
as Sparky (voice)
Age 80 (now 93)
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
as (archive footage)
Age 99 (now 93)
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
as Self (archive footage)
Age 96 (now 93)
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
as Gus
Age 94 (now 93) Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
In Memory Of
Age 94 (now 93)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
as (archive footage)
Age 89 (now 93)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
Age 88 (now 93)
Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective
as Self (archive footage)
Age 88 (now 93)
A Miser Brothers' Christmas
as Santa Claus (voice)
Age 88 (now 93)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
as Self
Age 88 (now 93)Empire State Building Murders
as Mickey Silver
Age 87 (now 93)
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
as Self
Age 86 (now 93)
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams
as David McCord
Age 84 (now 93)
Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals
as Self
Age 84 (now 93)
Broadway's Lost Treasures
as Mickey (segment "Sugar Babies")
Age 82 (now 93)
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
as Sparky (voice)
Age 80 (now 93)
Babe: Pig in the City
as Fugly Floom, the Speechless Man in Hotel
Age 78 (now 93)
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
as Andy Hardy (archive footage)
Age 78 (now 93)
Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights
as Sage
Age 77 (now 93)
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
as Griffith
Age 77 (now 93)
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
as Self - Actor
Age 76 (now 93)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self
Age 74 (now 93)
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
as O.B. Taggart
Age 74 (now 93) Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
Writer
Age 74 (now 93)
That's Entertainment! III
as Self - Co-Host / Narrator
Age 73 (now 93)
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker
as Joe Petto
Age 71 (now 93)
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
as The Director
Age 71 (now 93)
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
as Junion
Age 70 (now 93)
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
as Self
Age 70 (now 93)
Adventures of the Black Stallion
as Henry Dailey
Age 69 (now 93)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
as Self (archive footage)
Age 69 (now 93)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
as Self (archive footage)
Age 69 (now 93)
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
as Self
Age 69 (now 93)
Lightning, the White Stallion
as Barney Ingram
Age 66 (now 93)
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
as Jack Bergan
Age 65 (now 93)
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Self
Age 65 (now 93)
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
as Self (archive footage)
Age 64 (now 93)
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
as Mike Halligan
Age 64 (now 93)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 62 (now 93)
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
as Self
Age 62 (now 93)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
as Self (archive footage)
Age 61 (now 93)
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
as Santa Claus (voice)
Age 58 (now 93)
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
Age 55 (now 93)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
Age 54 (now 93)
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Santa Claus (voice)
Age 54 (now 93)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
Age 51 (now 93)
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
as Mickey Rooney (uncredited)
Age 51 (now 93)
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
as Kris Kringle aka Santa Claus (voice)
Age 50 (now 93)
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
as Indian Tom
Age 49 (now 93)
The Extraordinary Seaman
as Cook 3 / C W.J. Oglethorpe
Age 48 (now 93)
Lionpower from MGM
as Self - Cook 3 / Self - C W. J. Oglethorpe (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 46 (now 93)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Ding 'Dingy' Bell
Age 43 (now 93)
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
as Johnny Burke
Age 40 (now 93)
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
Director
Age 39 (now 93) The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
as Nick Lewis / The Devil
Age 39 (now 93)
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
as Gus Harris
Age 38 (now 93)
Francis in the Haunted House
as David Prescott
Age 35 (now 93)
The Twinkle In God's Eye
as Rev. William Macklin II
Age 35 (now 93)
A Slight Case of Larceny
as Augustus "Geechy" Cheevers
Age 32 (now 93)Screen Snapshots: Mickey Rooney, Then and Now
as Himself
Age 32 (now 93)
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
as Andy Hardy
Age 20 (now 93)
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
Age 20 (now 93)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
Age 19 (now 93)
Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things
as Andy Hardy
Age 19 (now 93)
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
as Mickey Rooney
Age 18 (now 93)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Huckleberry Finn
Age 18 (now 93)Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
as Andy Hardy
Age 18 (now 93)
Another Romance of Celluloid
as Self (uncredited)
Age 17 (now 93)
A Dream Comes True
as Puck (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 15 (now 93)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
as Mickey Rooney
Age 15 (now 93)
The Beast of the City
as Mickey Fitzpatrick (uncredited)
Age 11 (now 93)
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
as Harold Lang
Age 72 (now 93)
The Adventures of the Black Stallion
Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...
as Self
Age 70 (now 93)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self (uncredited)
Age 47 (now 93)
The Carol Burnett Show
as Self - Guest / Various Characters
Age 46 (now 93)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Lefty Duncan
Age 43 (now 93)Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as George M. Cohan
Age 43 (now 93)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
Age 42 (now 93)
The Wonderful World of Disney
as James Turner (The Hermit)
Age 34 (now 93) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Old Bailey
Age 34 (now 93)
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Accepting Special Award to Cantinflas
Age 23 (now 93)
Gathering insights...
Also Known As
Joseph Yule Jr., Joe Yule Jr., Mickey Yule, Mickey McGuire, Michael McGuire, Michael Rooney, میکی رونی
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