Mickey Rooney
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).
384 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 384
The Simpsons
1989
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
American Dad!
2005
ER
1994
Murder, She Wrote
1984
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Love Boat
1977
The Fugitive
1963
Wagon Train
1957
Great Performances
1971
Full House
1987
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Golden Girls
1985
Tony Awards
1956
Naked City
1958
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Carol Burnett Show
1967
Combat!
1962
Burke's Law
1963
Rawhide
1959
The Lucy Show
1962
What's My Line?
1950
The Red Skelton Show
1951
Night Gallery
1970
Omnibus
1967
The Oscars
1953
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
The Steve Allen Show
1956
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Jack Benny Program
1950
The Bob Hope Show
1950
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
Playhouse 90
1956
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
Arrest and Trial
1963
Startime
1959
The Dean Martin Show
1965
This Is Your Life
1952
The Care Bears
1985
Night at the Museum
2006
December Bride
1954
MGM Parade
1955
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014
Remember WENN
1996
The Hollywood Palace
1964
Pete and Gladys
1960
Legends
2006
The Dick Powell Show
1961
The Norm Show
1999
The Adventures of the Black Stallion
1992
Mike Hammer, Private Eye
1997
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
The George Gobel Show
1954
Dan August
1970
Jack's Place
1992
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961
The Fox and the Hound
1981
The Danny Thomas Hour
1967
The Investigators
1961
The Match Game
1962
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
2001
The Muppets
2011
The Judy Garland Show
1963
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
This Is Your Life
1983
Babe: Pig in the City
1998
General Electric Theater
1953
MGM: When the Lion Roars
1992
Hey Mulligan
1954
Conan the Adventurer
1997
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Mickey
1964
One of the Boys
1982
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Pete's Dragon
1977
The Black Stallion
1979
Night of 100 Stars
1982
Erik the Viking
1989
Arabian Adventure
1979
Private Screenings
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Captains Courageous
1937
The Jerry Lewis Show
1963
Boys Town
1938
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008
The Year Without a Santa Claus
1974
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
1970
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
1954
National Velvet
1945
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
1986
Skidoo
1968
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
2019
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
That's Entertainment!
1974
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
The Domino Principle
1977
From the Ends of the Earth
1939
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1936
Lionpower from MGM
1967
Slave Ship
1937
Hollywood’s Children
1982
The Comic
1969
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...
1991
Mickey's 50
1978
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
The Care Bears Movie
1985
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
1983
Journey Back to Oz
1972
The Strip
1951
Requiem for a Heavyweight
1962
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939
Quicksand
1950
Evil Roy Slade
1972
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
1979
Sid & Judy
2019
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
1985
Operation Mad Ball
1957
That's Dancing!
1985
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
1961
Hide-Out
1934
Phantom of the Megaplex
2000
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
1991
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
Words and Music
1948
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
Girl Crazy
1943
You're Only Young Once
1937
Bluegrass
1988
The Happy Elf
2005
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Manhattan Melodrama
1934
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
1998
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker
1991
Young Tom Edison
1940
Bill
1981
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
1991
Chained
1934
Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990
Stablemates
1938
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
1965
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
The Big Wheel
1949
Francis in the Haunted House
1956
Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003
Ambush Bay
1966
Show-Business at War
1943
Thousands Cheer
1943
Babes in Arms
1939
Hold That Kiss
1938
The Beast of the City
1932
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965
Maximum Force
1992
A Miser Brothers' Christmas
2008
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
1941
Hollywood Legenden
2004
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
Death on the Diamond
1934
It's Showtime
1976
The Human Comedy
1943
Riffraff
1936
Find the Lady
1976
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
1960
Killer McCoy
1947
Judge Hardy and Son
1939
Babes on Broadway
1941
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
Strike Up the Band
1940
Senior Trip
1981
The World Changes
1933
Lord Jeff
1938
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
2017
The Lost Jungle
1934
Pulp
1972
Off Limits
1952
Illusion Infinity
2004
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
Broadway to Hollywood
1933
Men of Boys Town
1941
Andy Hardy's Double Life
1942
Rendezvous
1935
Judy Garland: By Myself
2004
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
1997
Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998
The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
2014
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939
Sound Off
1952
There Must Be a Pony
1986
Reckless
1935
Summer Holiday
1948
The Hardys Ride High
1939
The Milky Life
1993
The Chief
1933
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971
To Kill a Mockumentary
2004
The Secret Invasion
1964
Sweet Justice
1991
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
1990
The First of May
1999
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
2007
Baby Face Nelson
1957
The Devil in Love
1966
Donovan's Kid
1979
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2017
Revenge of the Red Baron
1994
My Outlaw Brother
1951
Who Killed Julie Greer?
1961
Cinema Circus
1937
Driving Me Crazy
2012
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
1989
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
1984
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
2010
Liberation
1994
The Magic of Lassie
1978
Half a Sinner
1934
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
1939
Orchids and Ermine
1927
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
1942
The Bold and the Brave
1956
Empire State Building Murders
2008
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
1991
Night Club
2011
Above the Line
2008
Bill: On His Own
1983
All Ashore
1953
Love Finds Andy Hardy
1938
The Lion Roars Again
1975
Judy Garland Duets
2005
Hollywood Blue
1970
High Speed
1932
Hooray for Hollywood
1976
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
1937
A Slight Case of Larceny
1953
Out West with the Hardys
1938
Live, Love and Learn
1937
Fast Companions
1932
Blind Date
1934
The Atomic Kid
1954
Cleavage
2002
Lost Stallions: The Journey Home
2008
Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things
1940
A Dream Comes True
1935
Lightning, the White Stallion
1986
Beloved
1934
Ah, Wilderness!
1935
My Kidnapper, My Love
1980
The Extraordinary Seaman
1969
Love Is a Headache
1938
Internet Love
1998
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1946
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
1940
The Last Mile
1959
Rodeo Dough
1940
The Polio Crusade
2009
Drive a Crooked Road
1954
From Hong Kong with Love
1975
Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights
1998
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958
A Family Affair
1937
Thunder County
1974
Everything's Ducky
1961
Little Spies
1986
Judge Hardy's Children
1938
My Pal, the King
1932
Hollywood Handicap
1938
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
1995
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
2009
The Big Operator
1959
Mickey's Battle
1927
Leave 'Em Laughing
1981
The Twinkle In God's Eye
1955
Down the Stretch
1936
The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams
2005
Andy Hardy Comes Home
1958
Trifles of Importance
1940
Screen Snapshots: Mickey Rooney, Then and Now
1953
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933
Marilyn and I
2019
The Thirsting
2006
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
1941
80 Steps to Jonah
1969
The Our Gang Story
1994
The County Chairman
1935
The Comedian
1957
Fol-de-Rol
1972
Personalities
1942
The Manipulator
1971
Platinum High School
1960
Another Romance of Celluloid
1938
Brothers' Destiny
1995
The Legend of Wolf Mountain
1992
The Healer
1935
The Voice of Hollywood No. 8
1930
Mr. Broadway
1957
The Intruder
1975
The Voices from Beyond
2012
The Fireball
1950
Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective
2009
Sin's Pay Day
1932
The Emperor of Peru
1982
Pinocchio
1957
Vienna
1968
Officer Thirteen
1932
Richard
1972
Killing Midnight
1997
Mickey's Champs
1930
From Raquel with Love
1980
Boys Will Be Boys
1999
Home for Christmas
1990
A Christmas Too Many
2007
The Godmothers
1973
The Big Cage
1933
Rachel's Man
1976
Mickey's Tent Show
1933
A Yank at Eton
1942
Mickey's Pals
1927
The Big Chance
1933
Mickey's Touchdown
1933
Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
1939
Mickey's Northwest Mounted
1929
Mickey's Midnite Follies
1929
Making Waves
1994
Hoosier Schoolboy
1937
O’Malley
1983
Mickey's Whirlwinds
1930
Mickey the Great
1945
Mickey's Race
1933
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006
Mickey's Thrill Hunters
1931
Adventures of the Black Stallion
1990
Mickey's Warriors
1930
Creole
1981
Mickey's Movies
1928
Magnificent Roughnecks
1956
Mickey's Luck
1930
Mickey's Little Eva
1928
Mickey's Medicine Man
1934
He's a Cockeyed Wonder
1950
Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals
2005
Mickey in School
1928
Radio Rhythm
1931
Mickey's Surprise
1929
Mickey's Minstrels
1934
Love Birds
1934
The Hare Mail
1931
The Hunter
1931
Ace of Hearts
1975
Mickey's Mix-Up
1929
Mickey's Big Moment
1929
Private Screenings: Mickey Rooney
1997
Mickey's Stampede
1931
Mickey's Rescue
1934
Mickey's Brown Derby
1929
Mickey's Ape Man
1933
I Like it That Way
1934
The Fisherman
1931
Mickey's Disguises
1933
Mickey's Covered Wagon
1933
Mickey's Busy Day
1932
Mickey's Great Idea
1929
Mickey's Wildcats
1931
March of Dimes
1938
Mickey's Big Game Hunt
1928
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
1998
Mickey's Menagerie
1929
Mickey's Wild West
1928
Mickey's Rebellion
1931
Mickey's Circus
1927
Mickey's Explorers
1929
Cinema Stars - No. 15
1925
Hot Feet
1931
Mickey the Detective
1928
Mickey's Rivals
1928
Mickey's Eleven
1927
