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(393)
Self
1962
Mickey Rooney (voice)
1989
Short Producer (voice)
2005
Self
1948
Self
1971
Self / Killer Looney
1950
Self - Guest / Various Characters
1967
Self / Perry Masonjar
1951
Self - Co-Host
1961
Self
1950
Self - Panelist
1950
Archie Lido
1963
Self
1952
Harold Lang
1993
Self
1950
Samuel T. Evans
1957
Self - Accepting Special Award to Cantinflas
1944
Self - Presenter
1944
Matt Cleveland
1984
Self
1957
Self
1950
Self
1956
Self - Comedian
1956
Self - Guest
1956
Michael Grady
1959
Self - Singer
1964
Self
1964
Self
1967
1987
George Bikel
1994
1960
Rocco
1985
Mickey Rooney
1962
Harry White
1962
Self
1954
1985
Mike Zampini
1961
Augie Miller
1961
Putt-Putt Higgins
1961
Himself - Team Captain
1962
Hoagy Blair
1963
Self - Nominee/Performer
1956
Dominicus Angelara
1977
Pan Macropolous
1959
Lefty Duncan
1963
George M. Cohan
1963
Charlie Paris
1963
Self
1953
Sammy Hogarth
1956
Self
1967
1992
Self
1954
Kenny O'Malley
1970
1999
Mr. Hardy
1996
Sheriff Williams
1963
Self
2006
1965
George Bick
1958
1997
Mickey Mulligan
1954
Self
1983
1997
1992
Old Bailey
1954
James Turner (The Hermit)
1954
Self
August Kolodney
1970
Mickey Grady
1964
Self
2009
1982
Self
1968
1996
Gus
2006
Gus
2014
Ding 'Dingy' Bell
1963
2008
Mr. Yunioshi
1961
1959
Self
1991
Tod (voice)
1981
Al Roberts
1953
Self (archive footage)
1975
Red McGivney
1951
Sparky (voice)
2001
Self
2014
Smalltown Resident
2011
Henry Dailey
1979
Flip (voice)
1989
Self
1963
Fugly Floom, the Speechless Man in Hotel
1998
1992
Lampie
1977
Self
1963
George 'Blue Chips' Packard
1968
Santa Claus (voice)
1974
Whitey Marsh
1938
Erik's Grandfather
1989
Kris Kringle aka Santa Claus (voice)
1970
Andy Hardy
1946
Mr. Cherrywood (voice)
1985
Dan Troop
1937
Dick Tipton
1936
Spiventa
1977
Billy Coy
1949
Mike Forney
1954
Huckleberry Finn
1939
(archive footage)
1976
Self (archive footage)
1994
Self - Host / Narrator
1974
Michael 'Mi' Taylor
1945
Self - Co-Host / Narrator
1994
Blackie as a Boy
1934
J. Dennis 'Denny' O'Moore
1951
Self (archive footage)
2020
Country Boy (uncredited)
1935
Daad El Shur
1979
Shockey Carter
1937
Boy Shipboard Swimmer (uncredited)
1934
Tommy Williams
1941
Movie Mason
2000
Thomas Alva 'Tom' Edison
1940
Mickey Moran
1939
Self
1982
MSgt. Yancy Skibo
1957
Marty
1975
Mickey Rooney (uncredited)
1971
David McCord
2005
Mickey
1934
Eddie Shannon
1954
Army
1962
Eddie
1935
Lorenz Hart
1948
Zeke
1993
Joe Petto
1991
The Director
1991
Cockeye
1969
Jimmy Connors
1940
(archive footage)
2019
Self (archive footage)
2019
Herbert Tuttle
1952
Terry O'Mulvaney
1938
Jimmy
1936
Freckles (uncredited)
1933
Puck
1935
Daniel 'Dan' Brady
1950
Narrator
1976
Self
1995
Terence Scanlon
1964
Sgt. Ernest Wartell
1966
David Prescott
1956
Scarecrow (voice)
1972
Lead Boy at Circus
1934
Andy Hardy
1944
Preston Gilbert
1972
Nelson L. Stool
1972
Wellington
1999
Self (archive footage)
1982
Danny Churchill, Jr.
1943
Tommy Miller
1935
Peachy Keane
1965
Self - Actor (voice)
2004
Mickey Fitzpatrick (uncredited)
1932
Mr. Louis
2017
Chief of Police
1992
Bill Sackter
1983
Tollkeeper
1998
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Junion
1991
Andy Hardy
1942
Andy Hardy
1938
Whitey Marsh
1941
Jerry Sherman
2011
Barnaby 'Blix' Waterberry
1954
Homer Macauley
1943
Self (uncredited)
1975
James Turner
1986
Lester M. 'Baby Face Nelson' Gillis
1957
Johnny Burke
1961
Jerry Crump
1937
Self (archive footage)
1985
Narrator (voice)
1992
Himself (uncredited)
1986
(archive footage)
1982
'Gig' Stevens
1936
Self (archive footage)
2019
Mickey Silver
2008
Willie Dooley
1956
Himself
1938
Self (archive footage)
1972
Himself
1937
Pinocchio
1957
Andy Hardy
1939
Andy Hardy
1940
Trigger
1976
Stanley Maxton
1951
Timmie Donovan
1937
Jimmy O'Hara
1933
Norman Jones
1965
Andy Hardy
1937
Andy Hardy
1937
Little Joe Braun
1959
Freddie Taylor
1934
Richard Miller
1948
Santa Claus
2005
Santa Claus (voice)
2008
Andy Hardy
1958
Santa Claus (voice)
1979
Self
2008
Messenger Boy
1934
Self
1978
Self
1981
Jack Thum
1981
Bill Sackter
1981
Himself - Emcee at the Show
1943
Andy Hardy
1938
Freckles
1935
Puck (archive footage) (uncredited)
1935
Laban
1976
Mike Zampini
1961
Self
1943
Willie
1933
Andy Hardy
1939
Buddy Whipple (uncredited)
1932
Paradise Cab Company cabbie
1980
Self
2004
Mickey (segment "Sugar Babies")
2003
Adramelek
1966
King Charles V
1932
Mike Halligan
1984
Self (archive footage)
1976
Self (archive footage)
2009
Cook 3 / C W.J. Oglethorpe
1969
Midge
1932
William 'Willie' Miller
1934
Self (archive footage)
1990
Sammy Hogarth
1957
(archive footage)
2009
Max
2004
Guardian Angel
1972
O.B. Taggart
1995
1970
Grandpa Spencer
1994
Self
1940
John Paul Jones
1988
Sage
1998
Arthur Wilson
1933
Self
1940
Capt. Jenkins
1975
Indian Tom
1970
Ted Hackett III as Child
1933
Tommy McCoy / Killer McCoy
1947
Self
1986
Andy Hardy
1939
Otto Peterson as a Child
1933
Andy Hardy
1941
Francis 'Moby' Dickerson
1953
The Engineer
1982
Chick Evans
1938
Pat Jensen
1992
Mickey Rooney
1935
Andy Hardy
1941
Simon / Henry, Sr.
2004
Gus
1978
Frank Sommers
1956
Mr. Cohen
2012
Jack Bergan
1986
Timothy Dennis
1942
Archive Footage (from March of Dimes)
2009
Johnny Casar
1950
Andy Hardy
1942
Self (archive footage)
1982
Elmer
1990
Self (uncredited)
1938
Mickey McGuire
1927
Savy
2006
Mickey
1938
Jimmy
1935
Buddy Malone
1932
'Killer' John Mears
1959
Self (archive footage)
1991
Swifty
1937
Self
1939
Self (archive footage)
1990
Self (archive footage)
1940
Mickey O’Malley
1983
Mike Donnelly
1952
Wilfred Bashford
1969
Self
1940
Self
2010
Willie Clark
1934
Self (archive footage)
1994
Kermit 'Beetle' McKay
1961
1968
Barney Ingram
1986
B.J. Lang
1971
Gas Station Attendant
1974
Andy Hardy (archive footage)
1998
Mickey McGuire
1928
Father Flanagan
1995
Johnny O'Hara
2012
Grandpa
2007
Self - Actor
1997
Mike O'Toole
1938
Henry Dailey
1990
Tommy, a Violin Student
1934
Andy Hardy (screen test footage) (uncredited)
1942
Bailey
1979
Rev. William Macklin II
1955
Nick Lewis / The Devil
1960
Self (archive footage)
2017
Self
2010
Gus Harris
1958
Andy Hardy
1938
Mickey McGuire
1930
Mickey McGuire
1930
Steven Conway
1960
The Executioner / Noah
1972
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
1931
Andy Hardy
1939
Self
1998
The Maker
1980
Gabriel
1994
Papa Joe
1975
Boss Ed
1999
Mickey Rooney
1939
Augustus "Geechy" Cheevers
1953
Snapper Sinclair
1936
Chubby Dennis
1932
Mickey McGuire
1945
Mickey McGuire
1930
Mickey McGuire
1933
Mickey McGuire
1931
Mickey McGuire
1927
Self
1983
2006
Freddie Frisby
1950
Gladwyn Tootle
1934
Mickey McGuire
1933
Barry Reilly
1993
Mickey McGuire
1928
Himself
1953
Self (archive footage)
2005
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
1931
1957
Andy Hardy
1940
Mickey McGuire
1934
Self
2007
Mickey Rooney
1940
Rocky Mastrasso
1973
Mickey McGuire
1928
Mickey McGuire
1930
Mickey McGuire
1927
Mickey McGuire
1933
Mickey McGuire
1934
Mickey McGuire
1928
Mickey McGuire
1932
Mickey McGuire
1929
Mickey McGuire
1933
Mickey McGuire
1928
Mickey
1938
Mickey McGuire
1929
Professor Mort Sang
1997
Mickey McGuire
1934
Mickey McGuire
1933
Self (archive footage)
2019
Mickey McGuire
1929
Mickey McGuire
1929
Mickey McGuire
1929
Narrator
1981
Mickey McGuire
1929
Chief
2008
Mickey McGuire
1931
Oswald (voice) (uncredited)
1931
Mickey McGuire
1929
Mickey McGuire
1931
Mickey McGuire
1933
Griffith
1998
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
1931
Mickey McGuire
1927
1930
Self (archive footage)
2009
2011
Self
1997
Mickey McGuire
1929
Self
2005
Mickey McGuire
1927
Mickey McGuire
1929
Mickey McGuire
1928
Mickey McGuire
1931
Mickey McGuire
1928
1925
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
1931
