Mickey Rooney

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AKA: Mickey McGuire, Joe Yule, Jr
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 09/23/1920
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States

biography

Mickey Rooney was a little man who enjoyed a big career and a larger-than-life persona. Born into a family of vaudeville performers, he was pushed on stage before he could talk and never let up, appearing in hundreds of movies, TV shows, plays, casinos and gossip columns. He had a hunger for life and work that belied his small stature, marrying eight times, earning and losing millions of dollars on several occasions, and seemingly accepting any invitation to perform, whether it was a dinner theater or the Academy Awards. Outliving most of his Golden Age contemporaries, he carved out a unique Continued

Credits

The Tollkeeper
1997
(TV Show)
1995-1995
Himself
1995
of Cherrywood
1985
Henry Dailey
1979
Lampie
1977
Narration
1974
Preston Gilbert
1972
Mr Yunioshi
1961
Actor
1937
Chief of Police
Wilfred Bashford
Daad El Shur
Guardian Angel
Wellington
Yancey Skibo
Cook 3rd Class W J Oglethorpe
Adramalek
Cockeye
Erik's Grandfather
Terence Scanlon
Sergeant Ernest Wartell
Actor
Whitey Marsh
Barry Reilly
Narration
"Killer" John Mears
Emperor of Peru
Reverend Macklin
Mickey Moran
Eddie Shannon
Francis 'Moby' Dickerson
Steven Conway
Laban
Little Joe Braun
Lester Gillis/Baby Face Nelson
Blix Waterberry
Actor

milestones

Year
Milestone
1922 
First appeared onstage as part of his parents' vaudeville act (date approximate)
1927 
Starred as Mickey McGuire in over 50 installments of a two-reel comedy series
1934 
Signed to MGM
1934 
Started his feature career with nearly a dozen credits in a single year, including roles in films such as "Manhattan Melodrama", "Blind Date" and "I Like It That Way"
1935 
Played Puck in a star-studded film production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", starring James Cagney, Olivia de Haviland and Dick Powell
Continued

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