Mickey Rooney
Acting
🎂 1920-09-23
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).
Cast credits(394)
Mickey Rooney (voice)
1989
Short Producer (voice)
2005
Matt Cleveland
1984
Self
1962
Dominicus Angelara
1977
Samuel T. Evans
1957
George Bikel
1994
Self - Co-Host
1961
1987
Charlie Paris
1963
Self - Nominee/Performer
1956
Self
1971
Michael Grady
1959
Self - Accepting Special Award to Cantinflas
1944
Self - Presenter
1944
Pan Macropolous
1959
Self
1967
George Bick
1958
Lefty Duncan
1963
George M. Cohan
1963
Mickey Rooney
1962
Harry White
1962
August Kolodney
1970
Rocco
1985
Archie Lido
1963
Self
2009
Self - Guest / Various Characters
1967
Self / Perry Masonjar
1951
Harold Lang
1993
Sheriff Williams
1963
Self
1968
Self
1950
Self
1948
Gus
2006
Self
1953
Sammy Hogarth
1956
Self
1950
Self - Panelist
1950
Gus
2014
1985
Mike Zampini
1961
Augie Miller
1961
Putt-Putt Higgins
1961
Self
2006
Self / Killer Looney
1950
1965
Self
1950
1960
Self
1956
Self - Comedian
1956
Self - Guest
1956
Hoagy Blair
1963
1967
Mr. Yunioshi
1961
Self
1954
Ding 'Dingy' Bell
1963
Self
1952
Tod (voice)
1981
1959
Self
1957
Smalltown Resident
2011
Fugly Floom, the Speechless Man in Hotel
1998
1999
1997
Sparky (voice)
2001
Mr. Hardy
1996
Flip (voice)
1989
Self
1954
Lampie
1977
Self - Singer
1964
Self
1964
Kenny O'Malley
1970
Andy Hardy
1940
Henry Dailey
1979
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Himself - Team Captain
1962
Self
1981
1997
Old Bailey
1954
James Turner (The Hermit)
1954
Mickey Mulligan
1954
1992
Daad El Shur
1979
Self (archive footage)
2020
Dan Troop
1937
Self (archive footage)
1994
Ted Hackett III as Child
1933
Mickey Grady
1964
Self
1989
Self
2014
Santa Claus (voice)
1974
Nelson L. Stool
1972
Spiventa
1977
Self
1982
Junion
1991
Mike Donnelly
1952
Cook 3 / C W.J. Oglethorpe
1969
Erik's Grandfather
1989
Self - Host / Narrator
1974
1992
Mike Halligan
1984
Andy Hardy
1958
Self
1963
Self
1967
Little Joe Braun
1959
The Director
1991
Self (archive footage)
1975
Self
1995
Father Flanagan
1995
(archive footage)
1982
Preston Gilbert
1972
Gus
1978
MSgt. Yancy Skibo
1957
(archive footage)
1976
Himself (uncredited)
1986
Gas Station Attendant
1974
Max
2004
Joe Petto
1991
Indian Tom
1970
Blackie as a Boy
1934
Self
1998
The Maker
1980
Self
2008
Self (archive footage)
1972
Lester M. 'Baby Face Nelson' Gillis
1957
Al Roberts
1953
Elmer
1990
Mike Forney
1954
1970
Peachy Keane
1965
Self (archive footage)
2019
Barry Reilly
1993
Self - Co-Host / Narrator
1994
Terence Scanlon
1964
1992
Puck
1935
Barnaby 'Blix' Waterberry
1954
Self
1940
Mickey Silver
2008
Movie Mason
2000
Whitey Marsh
1938
Mickey McGuire
1945
Stanley Maxton
1951
Himself - Emcee at the Show
1943
Red McGivney
1951
Self (archive footage)
2019
Terry O'Mulvaney
1938
Self (archive footage)
1985
John Paul Jones
1988
Homer Macauley
1943
Santa Claus
2005
Kermit 'Beetle' McKay
1961
Andy Hardy
1938
Mickey
1938
Sammy Hogarth
1957
Buddy Whipple (uncredited)
1932
Mickey Fitzpatrick (uncredited)
1932
Self (archive footage)
1990
Henry Dailey
1990
Norman Jones
1965
Santa Claus (voice)
2008
Army
1962
Mickey Moran
1939
Lorenz Hart
1948
Puck (archive footage) (uncredited)
1935
Capt. Jenkins
1975
(archive footage)
2019
Cockeye
1969
Self (archive footage)
2009
Self
1983
Marty
1975
Scarecrow (voice)
1972
Zeke
1991
Self
1991
Kris Kringle aka Santa Claus (voice)
1970
Freckles
1935
Himself
1937
Mr. Cherrywood (voice)
1985
Thomas Alva 'Tom' Edison
1940
Self
2004
James Turner
1986
Self (archive footage)
1976
Santa Claus (voice)
1979
Self (uncredited)
1975
Andy Hardy
1938
Timothy Dennis
1942
Sgt. Ernest Wartell
1966
Willie Dooley
1956
The Executioner / Noah
1972
Andy Hardy
1941
Francis 'Moby' Dickerson
1953
Swifty
1937
Wellington
1999
Augustus "Geechy" Cheevers
1953
Self
1983
Huckleberry Finn
1939
Self (archive footage)
1982
Mickey
1934
Whitey Marsh
1941
William 'Willie' Miller
1934
Jerry Sherman
2011
Jimmy Connors
1940
Eddie
1935
Grandpa Spencer
1994
Self
1978
Papa Joe
1975
1982
Sage
1998
Mickey McGuire
1930
Boss Ed
1999
Michael 'Mi' Taylor
1945
1968
Self (uncredited)
1938
Freckles (uncredited)
1933
John Mears
1959
Self (archive footage)
1982
Boy Shipboard Swimmer (uncredited)
1934
Jack Bergan
1986
Richard Miller
1948
Andy Hardy
1944
Self
1940
Self
1986
Jimmy
1935
Eddie Shannon
1954
Andy Hardy
1938
B.J. Lang
1971
Johnny Burke
1961
Tommy Miller
1935
Andy Hardy
1939
Self
1939
Chick Evans
1938
Mike O'Toole
1938
Narrator
1976
Andy Hardy
1946
Self
2007
Tollkeeper
1998
Andy Hardy
1942
Adramelek
1966
Freddie Frisby
1950
Grandpa
2007
Tommy McCoy / Killer McCoy
1947
Andy Hardy
1939
1996
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
1931
Laban
1976
The Engineer
1982
Andy Hardy
1940
Freddie Taylor
1934
Tommy Williams
1941
Mickey Rooney
1939
Nick Lewis / The Devil
1960
Snapper Sinclair
1936
Andy Hardy (archive footage)
1998
Steven Conway
1960
Savy
2006
Chief of Police
1992
David McCord
2005
Mickey McGuire
1928
Mickey Rooney (uncredited)
1971
George 'Blue Chips' Packard
1968
Mickey Rooney
1935
Wilfred Bashford
1969
2006
Mickey (segment "Sugar Babies")
2003
Dick Tipton
1936
Danny Churchill, Jr.
1943
Self (archive footage)
1990
Narrator (voice)
1992
2008
Mr. Cohen
2012
Andy Hardy (screen test footage) (uncredited)
1942
Country Boy (uncredited)
1935
Bill Sackter
1983
1930
Self - Actor
1997
David Prescott
1956
Bailey
1979
Tommy, a Violin Student
1934
Barney Ingram
1986
Daniel 'Dan' Brady
1950
Mickey McGuire
1927
Mickey McGuire
1934
Jerry Crump
1937
Self
2010
Jimmy
1936
Arthur Wilson
1933
Andy Hardy
1937
Willie
1933
Pat Jensen
1992
Bill Sackter
1981
Trigger
1976
Johnny Casar
1950
Andy Hardy
1941
Timmie Donovan
1937
Herbert Tuttle
1952
Professor Mort Sang
1997
Billy Coy
1949
Self - Actor (voice)
2004
Self (archive footage)
2009
Self
1943
Self (archive footage)
2017
Jack Thum
1981
Self (archive footage)
2005
Andy Hardy
1937
J. Dennis 'Denny' O'Moore
1951
Self
Simon / Henry, Sr.
2004
Lead Boy at Circus
1934
Gus Harris
1958
Rev. William Macklin II
1955
Guardian Angel
1972
Midge
1932
'Gig' Stevens
1936
Self
1940
Messenger Boy
1934
Gladwyn Tootle
1934
Mike Zampini
1961
Self
2010
Griffith
1998
(archive footage)
2009
Frank Sommers
1956
Himself
1938
Johnny O'Hara
2012
Andy Hardy
1939
Mickey McGuire
1930
Chief
2008
Self
1997
Chubby Dennis
1932
Mickey McGuire
1934
Gabriel
1994
Andy Hardy
1942
Willie Clark
1934
Mickey McGuire
1933
Self
1963
Shockey Carter
1937
O.B. Taggart
1995
Mickey McGuire
1928
Buddy Malone
1932
Self (archive footage)
1940
Archive Footage (from March of Dimes)
2009
Mickey McGuire
1927
1925
Mickey McGuire
1932
Mickey McGuire
1928
Mickey McGuire
1933
Self (archive footage)
1994
Mickey McGuire
1933
King Charles V
1932
Mickey McGuire
1928
Mickey McGuire
1927
Mickey McGuire
1933
Jimmy O'Hara
1933
Mickey McGuire
1931
Mr. Louis
2017
Otto Peterson as a Child
1933
Mickey McGuire
1929
Mickey McGuire
1928
Rocky Mastrasso
1973
Mickey McGuire
1929
Mickey McGuire
1931
Mickey McGuire
1933
Mickey McGuire
1933
Mickey McGuire
1927
Mickey McGuire
1931
Mickey McGuire
1929
2011
Mickey McGuire
1929
Mickey O’Malley
1983
Mickey McGuire
1929
Mickey McGuire
1929
Mickey McGuire
1928
Mickey McGuire
1931
Mickey McGuire
1930
1957
Mickey McGuire
1927
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
1931
Mickey McGuire
1929
Mickey Rooney
1940
Oswald (voice) (uncredited)
1931
Himself
1953
Self
2005
Mickey McGuire
1928
Mickey McGuire
1930
Mickey McGuire
1929
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
1931
Andy Hardy
1939
Mickey McGuire
1934
Self (archive footage)
1991
Mickey
1938
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
1931
Narrator
1981
Mickey McGuire
1929
Paradise Cab Company cabbie
1980
Pinocchio
1957
