Mickey Rooney
Biography
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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).
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1920-09-23
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Cast
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961
7.64
Night at the Museum
2006
6.59
The Fox and the Hound
1981
7.14
Pete's Dragon
1977
6.31
The Care Bears Movie
1985
6.00
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
6.97
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1936
6.71
My Outlaw Brother
1951
5.50
Quicksand
1950
6.00
Erik the Viking
1989
5.90
The Domino Principle
1977
5.90
Evil Roy Slade
1972
6.21
The Comedian
1957
9.00
Babe: Pig in the City
1998
5.60
Babes in Arms
1939
6.43
Phantom of the Megaplex
2000
6.00
Skidoo
1968
4.80
The Thirsting
2006
3.40
The Year Without a Santa Claus
1974
7.18
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
1970
7.08
Drive a Crooked Road
1954
6.10
Hollywood Legenden
2004
2.00
Pulp
1972
5.70
Manhattan Melodrama
1934
7.00
The Happy Elf
2005
4.60
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
1954
6.00
Girl Crazy
1943
5.60
Baby Face Nelson
1957
5.59
The Secret Invasion
1964
5.68
Bill
1981
6.60
Bill: On His Own
1983
6.70
Boys Town
1938
6.75
Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon
2010
0.00
High Speed
1932
2.00
Operation Mad Ball
1957
6.57
Andy Hardy's Double Life
1942
4.75
Summer Holiday
1948
4.90
Words and Music
1948
5.70
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1946
5.46
Thousands Cheer
1943
6.40
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
1941
5.38
Babes on Broadway
1941
6.40
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
1941
5.90
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
1940
5.40
Strike Up the Band
1940
6.20
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
1939
5.69
Love Finds Andy Hardy
1938
6.16
The Hunter
1931
6.00
The Our Gang Story
1994
0.00
Hide-Out
1934
6.90
Captains Courageous
1937
7.44
Marilyn and I
2019
10.00
National Velvet
1945
7.22
The Human Comedy
1943
6.27
The Black Stallion
1979
7.02
Trifles of Importance
1940
6.00
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933
6.00
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
10.00
Empire State Building Murders
2008
0.00
Hollywood Handicap
1938
4.50
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
1984
5.60
The Manipulator
1971
3.80
Mickey's Whirlwinds
1930
0.00
Arabian Adventure
1979
5.80
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
1942
5.72
The Last Mile
1959
6.30
Requiem for a Heavyweight
1962
7.20
A Christmas Too Many
2007
1.70
Young Tom Edison
1940
5.60
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944
5.83
The Comic
1969
5.90
Killing Midnight
1997
1.00
Hollywood Blue
1970
0.00
The Strip
1951
5.70
The Fireball
1950
5.60
The Big Wheel
1949
5.22
Killer McCoy
1947
6.00
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
1937
5.70
Broadway to Hollywood
1933
4.60
The Magic of Lassie
1978
5.40
Francis in the Haunted House
1956
5.10
All Ashore
1953
6.00
Sound Off
1952
0.00
The Extraordinary Seaman
1969
2.60
Ambush Bay
1966
5.00
Out West with the Hardys
1938
6.38
Judge Hardy and Son
1939
5.64
Ah, Wilderness!
1935
6.50
Rendezvous
1935
4.80
Riffraff
1936
5.00
Lord Jeff
1938
7.10
Men of Boys Town
1941
6.10
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
6.00
Off Limits
1952
5.80
Judge Hardy's Children
1938
6.50
Creole
1981
0.00
The Atomic Kid
1954
4.50
Fol-de-Rol
1972
0.00
A Family Affair
1937
5.94
Andy Hardy Comes Home
1958
4.50
The Hardys Ride High
1939
5.80
You're Only Young Once
1937
5.75
Cinema Circus
1937
0.00
Revenge of the Red Baron
1994
2.44
Officer Thirteen
1932
6.20
Platinum High School
1960
6.00
Everything's Ducky
1961
5.33
He's a Cockeyed Wonder
1950
3.30
The Bold and the Brave
1956
5.60
The Big Chance
1933
4.25
The Twinkle In God's Eye
1955
7.00
The First of May
1999
7.20
Mickey's Race
1933
6.00
The Healer
1935
5.75
Slave Ship
1937
4.80
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
6.00
A Slight Case of Larceny
1953
4.00
Live, Love and Learn
1937
5.80
The Devil in Love
1966
5.57
Mr. Broadway
1957
0.00
Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998
7.30
Stablemates
1938
4.50
Mickey's Luck
1930
0.00
Mickey's Ape Man
1933
0.00
Down the Stretch
1936
5.50
The World Changes
1933
4.80
Home for Christmas
1990
6.30
Mickey's Pals
1927
2.00
Mickey's Eleven
1927
0.00
Mickey in School
1928
0.00
Mickey's Movies
1928
0.00
Mickey the Detective
1928
0.00
Mickey's Big Game Hunt
1928
0.00
Mickey's Great Idea
1929
0.00
Mickey's Northwest Mounted
1929
0.00
Mickey's Surprise
1929
0.00
Mickey's Mix-Up
1929
0.00
Mickey's Big Moment
1929
0.00
Mickey's Champs
1930
0.00
Mickey's Explorers
1929
0.00
Mickey's Warriors
1930
0.00
Mickey's Stampede
1931
0.00
Mickey's Rebellion
1931
0.00
Mickey's Wildcats
1931
0.00
Mickey's Thrill Hunters
1931
5.00
Mickey's Touchdown
1933
0.00
Mickey's Tent Show
1933
0.00
Mickey's Covered Wagon
1933
0.00
Mickey's Minstrels
1934
0.00
Mickey's Rescue
1934
0.00
Mickey's Medicine Man
1934
0.00
Mickey the Great
1945
0.00
80 Steps to Jonah
1969
4.60
The Voice of Hollywood No. 8
1930
0.00
Love Is a Headache
1938
5.70
The Big Operator
1959
5.80
Hoosier Schoolboy
1937
6.00
Leave 'Em Laughing
1981
8.00
Hold That Kiss
1938
6.50
Mickey's Rivals
1928
0.00
Mickey's Midnite Follies
1929
0.00
Mickey's Menagerie
1929
0.00
Reckless
1935
5.30
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935
6.40
Lightning, the White Stallion
1986
3.50
Making Waves
1994
4.30
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
1965
5.30
The Chief
1933
3.00
Blind Date
1934
7.00
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965
5.40
Thunder County
1974
3.00
Sin's Pay Day
1932
5.20
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936
6.90
My Pal, the King
1932
0.00
Boys Will Be Boys
1999
5.00
Sweet Justice
1993
4.38
The Legend of Wolf Mountain
1992
4.50
Brothers' Destiny
1995
6.00
Rachel's Man
1976
0.00
The Fisherman
1931
0.00
The Hare Mail
1931
0.00
Radio Rhythm
1931
6.50
Bluegrass
1988
3.50
Who Killed Julie Greer?
1961
0.00
A Yank at Eton
1942
6.20
Hot Feet
1931
5.00
Richard
1972
6.00
Lost Stallions: The Journey Home
2008
8.00
That's Entertainment!
1974
7.30
Mickey's Circus
1927
6.00
Mickey's Brown Derby
1929
0.00
Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990
6.50
Maximum Force
1992
4.80
Driving Me Crazy
2012
0.00
Rodeo Dough
1940
5.30
My Kidnapper, My Love
1980
6.00
Find the Lady
1976
3.80
Internet Love
1998
10.00
There Must Be a Pony
1986
6.20
Little Spies
1986
6.10
Showbiz Kids
2020
6.84
Vienna
1968
6.00
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
6.86
The Voices from Beyond
2012
0.00
The Big Cage
1933
6.00
The Milky Life
1993
3.00
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
1998
5.20
Mickey's Disguises
1933
0.00
The Lost Jungle
1934
3.40
The Emperor of Peru
1982
3.50
The Beast of the City
1932
5.90
Cinema Stars - No. 15
1925
0.00
That's Entertainment! III
1994
7.00
Night Club
2011
0.00
Mickey's Battle
1927
0.00
Mickey's Little Eva
1928
0.00
Judy Garland Duets
2005
0.00
The Magic Voyage
1992
4.70
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2017
4.20
Magnificent Roughnecks
1956
0.00
The Intruder
1975
5.10
To Kill a Mockumentary
2004
4.50
Pinocchio
1957
0.00
Death on the Diamond
1934
7.00
A Dream Comes True
1935
5.50
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935
5.60
Show-Business at War
1943
7.00
Judy Garland: By Myself
2004
7.50
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
6.50
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
5.70
Adventures of the Black Stallion
1990
10.00
Ace of Hearts
1975
0.00
Fast Companions
1932
6.00
From the Ends of the Earth
1939
0.00
From Raquel with Love
1980
0.00
Love Birds
1934
6.00
Donovan's Kid
1979
6.00
The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
2014
7.00
The County Chairman
1935
5.00
Chained
1934
6.80
Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003
6.10
Half a Sinner
1934
0.00
The Godmothers
1973
3.00
Senior Trip
1981
4.20
Another Romance of Celluloid
1938
5.00
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
7.50
Mickey's Wild West
1928
0.00
It's Showtime
1976
7.00
Mickey's 50
1978
0.00
A Miser Brothers' Christmas
2008
5.80
Sid & Judy
2019
7.43
Personalities
1942
0.00
Illusion Infinity
2004
0.00
Orchids and Ermine
1927
4.50
Journey Back to Oz
1972
5.30
The Muppets
2011
6.68
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971
4.67
Hollywood’s Children
1982
0.00
From Hong Kong with Love
1975
4.70
Liberation
1994
8.00
Beloved
1934
0.00
The Lion Roars Again
1975
0.00
March of Dimes
1938
10.00
The Polio Crusade
2009
0.00
I Like it That Way
1934
7.00
Night of 100 Stars
1982
6.67
Mickey's Busy Day
1932
0.00
Treasure Train
2011
0.00
Hooray for Hollywood
1976
0.00
O’Malley
1983
0.00
Lionpower from MGM
1967
4.50