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Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney (born Ninnian Joseph Yule Jr. and also known by the pseudonym Mickey Maguire) was an American actor with a career that spanned nearly nine decades. He was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era and had appeared in over 300 films. Rooney was the top box-office attraction from 1939 to 1941, epitomizing the mainstream United States self-image through the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films in the 1930s and 1940s. His career was marked by declines and comeback, with notable performances in vaudeville, radio, and as a film producer. At the height of his career, Rooney was one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most successful actors, gaining recognition at an early age for his work in films and radio. He won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award in 1982. Rooney first began his career in vaudeville as a child actor, making his film debut at age six. He later won a Bronze Star for performing in combat zones during World War II. Despite experiencing financial difficulties and personal challenges in his later years, Rooney remained active as a performer until his death in 2014.
Biography, Career & Filmography
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Given Name: Ninnian Joseph Yule Jr.
Born: New York City, New York, U.S.
Citizenship: United States
Birthday: September 23, 1920
Occupations: Actor, Film Producer, Radio Entertainer, Vaudevillian
Years Active: 1926-2014
Children: 9
Spouses: Ava Gardner, Betty Jane Phillips, Martha Vickers, Elaine Devry, Barbara Ann Thomason, Marge Lane, Carolyn Hockett, Jan Chamberlin
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Awards and Nominations Received by Mickey Rooney
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Movies Featuring Mickey Rooney
The Black Stallion
Babe: Pig in the City
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Fox and the Hound
Strike Up the Band
That's Entertainment!
Girl Crazy
That's Entertainment, Part II
National Velvet
That's Entertainment! III
Captains Courageous
The Care Bears Movie
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Marilyn and I
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
Phantom of the Megaplex
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
Sid & Judy
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
The Thirsting
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
Judy Garland: By Myself
The Happy Elf
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
Anthony Quinn: An Original
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
The Gambler: The Luck Of The Draw
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Hollywood’s Children
Night of 100 Stars
Home for Christmas
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Bill: On His Own
Bill
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
Erik the Viking
Showbiz Kids
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
Senior Trip
Hollywood’s Funniest All-Star Bloopers
The Return of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer
There Must Be a Pony
Little Spies
A Christmas Too Many
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to ‘It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World’
Showbiz Goes to War
The Emperor of Peru
Lightning, the White Stallion
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
The Hunter
MGM: When the Lion Roars
Andy Hardy’s Double Life
The Our Gang Story
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker
The Extraordinary Seaman
Off Limits
The Magic of Lassie
The Intruder
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
A Slight Case of Larceny
Pulp
The Fireball
The Human Comedy
Manhattan Melodrama
The Atomic Kid
The Chief
Arabian Adventure
Skidoo
The Manipulator
Rodeo Dough
A Yank at Eton
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Platinum High School
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
The Beast of the City
The World Changes
Blind Date
Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
The Legend of Wolf Mountain
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
The Comic
My Outlaw Brother
The Secret Invasion
Ambush Bay
Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
Killer McCoy
The Devil in Love
A Miser Brothers’ Christmas
Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Lost Jungle
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Ah, Wilderness!
The Big Chance
Andy Hardy Comes Home
The Comedian
Death on the Diamond
You’re Only Young Once
Show-Business at War
Hide-Out
The Polio Crusade
A Dream Comes True
From the Ends of the Earth
Sweet Justice
March of Dimes
Young Tom Edison
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
The Big Wheel
The Big Operator
Rendezvous
Love Finds Andy Hardy
Boys Town
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Maximum Force
Vienna
The Hare Mail
Another Romance of Celluloid
Mickey’s 50
The Year Without a Santa Claus
The Bold and the Brave
Riffraff
Empire State Building Murders
Out West with the Hardys
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Revenge of the Red Baron
Love Is a Headache
Thousands Cheer
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
Live, Love and Learn
Babes in Arms
The First of May
Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry
Hollywood Handicap
1939: Hollywood’s Greatest Year
Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Godmothers
Journey Back to Oz
Orchids and Ermine
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
Men of Boys Town
Chained
Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary
Summer Holiday
Liberation
Find the Lady
Baby Face Nelson
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
Reckless
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Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Boys Will Be Boys
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble
The Lion Roars Again
A Family Affair
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Evil Roy Slade
Judge Hardy and Son
The Hardys Ride High
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Internet Love
Hold That Kiss
Lord Jeff
Hoosier Schoolboy
The Domino Principle
The Devil Is a Sissy
Babes on Broadway
Animals with the Tollkeeper
Words and Music
Stablemates
Quicksand
80 Steps to Jonah
Personalities
Drive a Crooked Road
Down the Stretch
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
All Ashore
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
Career Timeline
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2019
Marilyn and I
Self (archive footage)
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
(archive footage)
Sid & Judy
Self (archive footage)
2017
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Mr. Louis
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
Self (archive footage)
2009
The Polio Crusade
Archive Footage (from March of Dimes)
1939: Hollywood’s Greatest Year
Self (archive footage)
2008
A Miser Brothers’ Christmas
Santa Claus (voice)
Empire State Building Murders
Mickey Silver
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
Self
1998
Babe: Pig in the City
Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights
Sage
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
Griffith
Internet Love
Self
Animals with the Tollkeeper
Tollkeeper
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
Andy Hardy (archive footage)
1994
That's Entertainment! III
The Our Gang Story
Self (archive footage)
Revenge of the Red Baron
Grandpa Spencer
Liberation
Self (archive footage)
1991
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Junion
The Gambler: The Luck Of The Draw
The Director
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to ‘It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World’
Self (archive footage)
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker
Joe Petto
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker
Joe Petto
1990
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
Self (archive footage)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Self (archive footage)
Home for Christmas
Elmer
1986
The Return of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer
Jack Bergan
There Must Be a Pony
Himself (uncredited)
Little Spies
James Turner
Lightning, the White Stallion
Barney Ingram
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Self
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bill: On His Own
Bill Sackter
1982
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood’s Children
Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
The Emperor of Peru
The Engineer
1979
The Black Stallion
Arabian Adventure
Daad El Shur
Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
Santa Claus (voice)
1972
Pulp
Preston Gilbert
Journey Back to Oz
Scarecrow (voice)
Evil Roy Slade
Nelson L. Stool
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
1970
Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
Kris Kringle aka Santa Claus (voice)
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Indian Tom
1969
The Extraordinary Seaman
Cook 3 / C W.J. Oglethorpe
The Comic
Cockeye
80 Steps to Jonah
Wilfred Bashford
1954
The Atomic Kid
Barnaby 'Blix' Waterberry
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Mike Forney
Drive a Crooked Road
Eddie Shannon
1943
Girl Crazy
The Human Comedy
Homer Macauley
Show-Business at War
Self
Thousands Cheer
Himself - Emcee at the Show
1942
Andy Hardy’s Double Life
Andy Hardy
A Yank at Eton
Timothy Dennis
Personalities
Andy Hardy (screen test footage) (uncredited)
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
Andy Hardy
1941
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
Andy Hardy
Men of Boys Town
Whitey Marsh
Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary
Andy Hardy
Babes on Broadway
Tommy Williams
1940
Strike Up the Band
Rodeo Dough
Mickey Rooney
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Andy Hardy
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
Young Tom Edison
Thomas Alva 'Tom' Edison
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
1939
From the Ends of the Earth
Self
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Andy Hardy
Babes in Arms
Mickey Moran
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn
Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
Andy Hardy
Judge Hardy and Son
Andy Hardy
The Hardys Ride High
Andy Hardy
1938
March of Dimes
Mickey
Love Finds Andy Hardy
Andy Hardy
Boys Town
Whitey Marsh
Another Romance of Celluloid
Self (uncredited)
Out West with the Hardys
Andy Hardy
Love Is a Headache
Mike O'Toole
Hollywood Handicap
Himself
Hold That Kiss
Chick Evans
Lord Jeff
Terry O'Mulvaney
Stablemates
Mickey
1937
Captains Courageous
You’re Only Young Once
Andy Hardy
Live, Love and Learn
Jerry Crump
Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry
Timmie Donovan
A Family Affair
Andy Hardy
Hoosier Schoolboy
Shockey Carter
1936
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Dick Tipton
Riffraff
Jimmy
The Devil Is a Sissy
'Gig' Stevens
Down the Stretch
Snapper Sinclair
1935
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Puck
Ah, Wilderness!
Tommy Miller
A Dream Comes True
Puck (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rendezvous
Country Boy (uncredited)
Reckless
Eddie
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Mickey Rooney
1934
Manhattan Melodrama
Blackie as a Boy
Blind Date
Freddie Taylor
The Lost Jungle
Lead Boy at Circus
Death on the Diamond
Mickey
Hide-Out
William 'Willie' Miller
Chained
Boy Shipboard Swimmer (uncredited)
1933
The Chief
Willie
The World Changes
Otto Peterson as a Child
The Big Chance
Arthur Wilson
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Freckles (uncredited)
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