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Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney

Actor · 1920 – 2014 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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).

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  • Movie6.6

    Night at the Museum

    2006 · 11K votes

  • Movie6.2
  • Movie6.7

    The Muppets

    2011 · 1.7K votes

  • Movie7.6

    Breakfast at Tiffany's

    1961 · 4.6K votes

  • Movie7.2

    The Fox and the Hound

    1981 · 3.6K votes

  • Movie5.7

    Babe: Pig in the City

    1998 · 1.4K votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie6.3
  • Movie6.3

    Pete's Dragon

    1977 · 737 votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Black Stallion

    1979 · 341 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Care Bears Movie

    1985 · 164 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Erik the Viking

    1989 · 259 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Domino Principle

    1977 · 82 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Godmothers

    1973 · 2 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Captains Courageous

    1937 · 196 votes

  • Movie4.7

    Thunder County

    1974 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Love Birds

    1934 · 2 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Pulp

    1972 · 52 votes

  • Movie7.2

    National Velvet

    1945 · 127 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Maximum Force

    1992 · 18 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Secret Invasion

    1964 · 54 votes

  • Movie7.9

    Liberation

    1994 · 7 votes

  • Movie7.4

    That's Entertainment!

    1974 · 71 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Boys Town

    1938 · 109 votes

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  • TV8.0

    The Simpsons

    1989 · 11K votes

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  • TV7.0

    American Dad!

    2005 · 2.4K votes

  • TV6.3

    The Love Boat

    1977 · 199 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV7.0

    Golden Globe Awards

    1944 · 20 votes

  • TV7.5

    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 470 votes

  • TV7.8

    ER

    1994 · 962 votes

  • TV
  • TV7.5

    Full House

    1987 · 1.2K votes

  • TV6.1

    Great Performances

    1971 · 25 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • TV6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • TV7.0

    What's My Line?

    1950 · 29 votes

  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV5.9
  • TV7.8

    Night Gallery

    1970 · 112 votes

  • TV7.2

    Omnibus

    1967 · 9 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Golden Girls

    1985 · 411 votes

  • TV7.2

    Rawhide

    1959 · 49 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Lucy Show

    1962 · 53 votes

  • TV7.4

    The Red Skelton Show

    1951 · 19 votes

  • TV7.9

    Combat!

    1962 · 119 votes

  • TV6.7