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Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr. on September 23, 1920) is an American

United States

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film

Film

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actor

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
and entertainer whose film

Film

Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
, and stage

Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Oscar, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award

Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
. Best known for his work as the Andy Hardy character, Rooney has had one of the longest movie careers of any actor.

ey was born in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
, New York

New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
to a vaudeville

Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a genre of a variety show prevalent on the theatre in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrel show, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque....
family.

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Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr. on September 23, 1920) is an American

United States

Film

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
and entertainer whose film

Film

Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
, and stage

Theatre

Emmy Award

Early life

Rooney was born in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
to a vaudeville

Vaudeville

Joe Yule

Ninnian Joseph Yule was a vaudeville comedian who starred in many films as a character actor. He was noted for his role in the "Bringing up Father" film series....
, was from Scotland

Scotland

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, and his mother, Nellie W. (née Carter), was from Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson County, Missouri, Clay County, Missouri, Cass County, Missouri, and Platte County, Missouri counties....
. Both parents were in vaudeville, and appearing in a Brooklyn production of A Gaiety Girl
A Gaiety Girl

A Gaiety Girl is an English musical comedy in two acts by a team of musical comedy neophytes: Owen Hall , Harry Greenbank and Sidney Jones ....
when Joseph, Jr. was born. He began performing at the age of 17 months as part of his parents' routine, wearing a specially tailored tuxedo.

Career

Mickey McGuire

The Yules separated in 1924 during a slump in vaudeville, and in 1925, Nell Yule moved with her son to Hollywood, where she managed a tourist home. Fontaine Fox

Fontaine Fox

Fontaine Talbot Fox Jr. was a famous cartoonist and illustrator born near Louisville, Kentucky.Fox is best known for writing and illustrating the Toonerville Folks comic panel that appeared from 1913 to 1955 in 250 to 300 newspapers across North America....
had placed a newspaper ad for a dark haired child to play the role of "Mickey McGuire" in a series of short films. Lacking the money to have her son's hair dyed, Mrs. Yule took her son to the audition after applying burnt cork to his scalp. Joe got the role and became "Mickey" for 78 of the comedies, running from 1927 to 1936, starting with Mickey's Circus, released September 4, 1927. These had been adapted from the Toonerville Trolley comic strip, which contained a character named Mickey McGuire. Joe Yule briefly legally became Mickey McGuire to trump an attempted copyright lawsuit (as it was his legal name, the movie producers did not owe the comic strip writers royalties).

Rooney later claimed that, during his Mickey McGuire days, he met cartoonist Walt Disney

Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
at the Warner Brothers studio, and that Disney was inspired to name Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney....
after him, although Disney always said that he had changed the name from "Mortimer Mouse" on the suggestion of his wife.

During an interruption in the series in 1932, Mrs. Yule made plans to take her son on a ten week vaudeville tour as McGuire, and Fox sued successfully to stop him from using the name. Mrs. Yule suggested the stage name of "Mickey Looney" for her comedian son, which he altered slightly to Rooney, a less frivolous version. Rooney did other films in his adolescence, including several more of the McGuire films, and signed with MGM in 1934. MGM cast Rooney as the teenage son of a judge in 1937's A Family Affair
A Family Affair (film)

A Family Affair is the first entry in the Andy Hardy film series, though Mickey Rooney has a secondary role as the son of Judge Hardy, played by Lionel Barrymore....
, setting Rooney on the way to another successful film series.

Andy Hardy and Judy Garland

In 1937, Rooney was selected to portray Andy Hardy

Andy Hardy

Andy Hardy was a fictional character played by Mickey Rooney in an extremely successful Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film series from 1937 to 1958. Spanning over 20 years, the 16 movies were based on characters in the play Skidding by Aurania Rouverol....
in A Family Affair (1937), which MGM had planned as a B-movie

B-movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial film conceived neither as an art film nor as pornography. In its original usage, during the so-called Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
. Rooney provided comic relief as the son of Judge James K. Hardy, portrayed by Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
(although Lewis Stone

Lewis Stone

Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
would play the role of Judge Hardy in later films). The film was an unexpected success, and led to thirteen more "Andy Hardy" films between 1937 and 1946, and a final "Andy Hardy" film in 1958. Rooney also received top billing as Shockey Carter in Hoosier Schoolboy (1937). The same year, he made his first film alongside Judy Garland

Judy Garland

Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
with Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry is a 1937 in film directed by Alfred E. Green. It stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in their first film together....
. His breakthrough role as a dramatic actor came in 1938's Boys Town
Boys Town (1938 film)

Boys Town is a biographical film drama film based on Edward J. Flanagan's work with a group of disadvantaged and delinquent boys in a home that he founded and named "Girls and Boys Town"....
opposite Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy was a two-time Academy Award winning actor of theatre and film, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 in film to 1967 in film. He is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history....
as Whitey Marsh, which opened shortly before his 18th birthday.

Garland and Rooney became a successful song and dance team. Besides three of the Andy Hardy films, where she portrayed Betsy Booth, a younger girl with a crush on Andy, Garland appeared with Rooney in a string of successful musicals, including the Oscar nominated Babes in Arms
Babes in Arms (film)

Babes in Arms is the 1939 in film film version of the 1937 Broadway musical Babes in Arms. The film version stars Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser, Grace Hayes and Betty Jaynes....
(1939). He was named the biggest box-office draw in 1939, 1940, and 1941.

Unquestionably a well known entertainer by the early 1940s, Rooney was one of many celebrities caricatured in Tex Avery

Tex Avery

Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery was an United States animator, cartoonist, voice Actor and film director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation....
's 1941 Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
cartoon

Cartoon

The word cartoon has various meanings, based on several very different forms of visual art and illustration. The term has evolved over time.The original meaning was in fine art, and there cartoon meant a preparatory drawing for a piece of art such as a painting or tapestry....
Hollywood Steps Out
Hollywood steps out

Hollywood Steps Out is a 1941 short Looney Tunes cartoon by Warner Brothers, directed by Tex Avery. The cartoon features caricatures of Hollywood celebrities from the 1930s and early 1940s....
. , Rooney is the only surviving entertainer depicted in the cartoon.

After the war

In 1944, Rooney entered military service for 21 months during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, during which time he was a radio personality on the American Forces Network

American Forces Network

American Forces Network is the brand name used by the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service for its entertainment and command internal information networks worldwide....
. After his return to civilian life, his career slumped. He appeared in a number of films, including Words and Music in 1948, which paired him for the last time with Garland on film (he appeared with her on one episode as a guest on her CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
variety series in 1963). The Mickey Rooney Show, also known as Hey Mulligan, appeared on NBC television for 39 episodes during 1954 and 1955. In 1951, he directed a feature film for Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
, My True Story starring Helen Walker

Helen Walker

Helen Walker was a American movie actress of the 1940s and 1950s.She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and made her film debut in 1942. After a fast start in Hollywood, Walker suffered serious injuries in a 1946 car wreck....
. Rooney also starred as a ragingly egomaniacal television comedian in the live 90-minute television drama The Comedian
The Comedian (1957 TV drama)

The Comedian is a 1957 live television drama written by Rod Serling from a novella by Ernest Lehman, directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Mickey Rooney....
, in the Playhouse 90
Playhouse 90

Playhouse 90 is a 90-minute dramatic television anthology series, telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1961 for a total of 133 episodes. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minut...
series on the evening of Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the English-speaking countries, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending greeting card, Valentine's Day flowers, or offering confectionery....
in 1957, and as himself in a revue

Revue

A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
called The Musical Revue Of 1959 based on the 1929 movie The Hollywood Revue Of 1929
The Hollywood Revue of 1929

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 is an United States musical film/comedy motion picture released in 1929 in film. It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of the earliest ventures into the talkie format....
which was edited into a film in 1960, by British International Pictures.

In 1960, he directed and starred in The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, an ambitious comedy known for its multiple flashbacks and many cameos. In the 1960s, Rooney returned to theatrical entertainment. He still accepted film roles in undistinguished movies, but occasionally would appear in better works, such as Requiem for a Heavyweight
Requiem for a Heavyweight

Requiem for a Heavyweight was originally a teleplay written by Rod Serling and produced for the live television show Playhouse 90 on 11 October 1956....
(1962) and The Black Stallion
The Black Stallion (film)

The Black Stallion is a 1979 film based on the 1941 classic children's novel The Black Stallion by Walter Farley. It tells the story of Alec Ramsey, who is shipwrecked on a deserted island, together with a wild Arabian horse stallion whom he befriends....
(1979). One of Rooney's more controversial roles came in the highly acclaimed 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 in film United States film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney....
where he played a stereotyped buck-toothed myopic

Myopia

Myopia , also called near- or short-sightedness, is a Refractive error of the eye in which collimated light produces image focus in front of the retina when accommodation is relaxed....
Japanese neighbor (Mr. Yunioshi) of the main character, Holly Golightly. Producer Richard Shepherd apologized for this in the 45th anniversary DVD, though Director Blake Edwards and Rooney himself do not.

On December 31, 1961, he appeared on television's What's My Line and mentioned that he had already started enrolling students in the MRSE (Mickey Rooney School of Entertainment). His school venture never came to fruition, but for several years he was a spokesman/partner in Pennsylvania's Downingtown Inn, a country club and golf resort.

In 1966, while Rooney was working on a film in the Philippines, his wife Barbara Ann Thomason (aka Tara Thomas, Carolyn Mitchell), a former pin-up model and aspiring actress who had won 17 straight beauty contests in Southern California, was found dead in their bed. Beside her was her lover, Milos Milos

Milos Milos

Milos Milos was a Hollywood actor, a stunt double and bodyguard of actor Alain Delon....
, an actor friend of Rooney's. Detectives ruled it murder-suicide

Murder-suicide

A murder-suicide is an act in which an individual kills one or more other persons immediately before, or at the same time as, killing him or herself....
, which was committed with Rooney's own gun. Milos was also a bodyguard

Bodyguard

A bodyguard is a type of security guard or government agent who protects a person?usually a famous, wealthy, or politically important figure?from assault, kidnapping, assassination, stalking, loss of Confidentiality, or other threats....
and was connected to Stevan Markovic

Stevan Markovic

Stevan Markovic was a bodyguard of moviestar Alain Delon. He was found murdered in 1968....
, bodyguard of French star Alain Delon

Alain Delon

Alain Delon is a C?sar Award-winning French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 he was garnering comparisons to famed French actors such as G?rard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean....
. Markovic was also found dead in mysterious circumstances in Paris

Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
two years later.

Rooney was awarded an Academy Juvenile Award

Academy Juvenile Award

This Academy Award, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is an honorary acting award. It is officially called either the "Special Award" or the Special Juvenile Academy Award....
in 1938, and in 1983 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
voted him their Academy Honorary Award

Academy Honorary Award

The Academy Honorary Award, instituted in 1948 in film for the 21st Academy Awards , is given by the discretion of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences#Current administration of the Academy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards....
for his lifetime of achievement.

Television and stage

Rooney made a successful transition to television and stage work. In 1961, he guest starred in the 13-week James Franciscus

James Franciscus

James Grover Franciscus was a leading and supporting United States actor. He was born in Clayton, Missouri. His first big role was as Detective Jim Halloran in the half-hour version of American Broadcasting Company's Naked City television series....
adventure

Adventure

An adventure is an activity that comprises risky, dangerous or uncertain experiences. The term is more popularly used in reference to physical activities that have some potential for danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing, and extreme sports....
-drama

Drama

Drama is the specific Mode of fiction Mimesis in performance. The term comes from a Ancient Greek word meaning "Action " , which is derived from "to do" ....
television series The Investigators on CBS. In 1963, he even entered The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone is an United States television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror fiction, often concluding with a macabre or Twist ending....
, giving a one-man performance in the episode "The Last Night of a Jockey

The Last Night of a Jockey

"The Last Night of a Jockey" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone ....
". In 1964, he launched a half-hour sitcom Mickey
Mickey (TV series)

Mickey is a 17-episode situation comedy starring Mickey Rooney as Mickey Grady, the owner of the luxury Newport Arms Hotel in Newport Beach, California, California, which aired on American Broadcasting Company from September 16, 1964, to January 13, 1965....
on ABC. The story line had "Mickey" operating a resort hotel

Hotel

----A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including Bathroom#Types of bathroomss and air conditioning or clima...
in southern California

California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. Son Tim Rooney

Tim Rooney

Timothy Hayes Rooney was an United States actor and voice actor. He was the second son of actor Mickey Rooney and suffered from a muscle disease known as dermatomyositis...
appeared as Rooney's teenaged son on the program, and Emmaline Henry

Emmaline Henry

Emmaline Henry was an United States actress perhaps best known for playing Amanda Bellows on the hit 1960s situation comedy I Dream of Jeannie....
starred as Rooney's wife.

He won a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie....
for his role in 1981's Bill
Bill (TV movie)

Bill is a 1981 CBS television biographical film starring Mickey Rooney and Dennis Quaid. A sequel titled Bill: On His Own was released in 1983....
. Playing opposite Dennis Quaid

Dennis Quaid

Dennis William Quaid is an United States acting. Raised in Texas, he became known during the 1980s after appearing in several successful films, and established a career as a Hollywood actor....
, Rooney was a mentally challenged man attempting to live on his own after leaving an institution. He reprised his role in 1983's Bill: On His Own, earning an Emmy nomination for the role.

Rooney did the voices for four Christmas

Christmas

Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
TV animated/stop action specials: Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (TV special)

Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town is a 1970 stop motion television special , made by Rankin-Bass with models carved from wood . The film stars actor Fred Astaire as S.D....
(1970), The Year Without a Santa Claus
The Year Without a Santa Claus

The Year Without a Santa Claus is a 1974 Rankin/Bass stop motion animation television special. It usually airs during the Christmas season on United States television....
(1974), Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979), and A Miser Brothers' Christmas
A Miser Brothers' Christmas

A Miser Brothers' Christmas is a stop motion spin-off special based on the characters from 1974 Rankin-Bass special The Year Without a Santa Claus....
(2008)—always playing Santa Claus

Santa Claus

Santa Claus is a folklore figure in various cultures who distributes gifts to children, normally on Christmas Eve. Each name is a variation of Saint Nicholas, but refers to Santa Claus....
. In 1970, he was approached by television producer Norman Lear

Norman Lear

Norman Milton Lear is an American television writer and Television producer who produced such popular sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times and Maude ....
to consider taking on the role of Archie Bunker in the upcoming CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
series, All in the Family
All in the Family

All in the Family is an United States situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 to April 8, 1979....
. Like Jackie Gleason

Jackie Gleason

Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr. , whose birth name was John Herbert "Jackie" Gleason, was an American comedian, actor and musician.He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy styling, especially as delivered by his character Ralph Kramden on the sitcom The Honeymooners....
before him, Mickey rejected the project. The role ultimately went to Carroll O'Connor

Carroll O'Connor

John Carroll O'Connor was an United States actor, Television producer and Television director whose television career spanned four decades. Known at first for playing the role of Major General Colt in the 1970 cult movie, Kelly's Heroes, he later found fame as the bigoted workingman Archie Bunker, the main character in the 1970s Columbia...
.

Rooney continued to work on stage and television through the 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the acclaimed stage play Sugar Babies
Sugar Babies

Sugar Babies is a musical theater comedy conceived by Ralph G. Allen and Harry Rigby, with music by Jimmy McHugh, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and Al Dubin and various others....
with Ann Miller

Ann Miller

Ann Miller was an American dancer, singer and actress....
beginning in 1979. He starred in the long-running TV series The Adventures of the Black Stallion
Adventures of the Black Stallion

Adventures of The Black Stallion is a television series that was loosely based on the movies The Black Stallion and The Black Stallion Returns ....
, reprising his role as Henry Daily from The Black Stallion film, and toured Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
in a dinner theatre production of The Mind with the Naughty Man in the mid-1990s. He played The Wizard in a stage production of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's literature novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. It was originally published by the George M....
with Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Mae Kitt was an American actor, singer, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her 1953 Christmas song "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world." She took over the role of Catwoman for the third season of the 1960s Batman television series, replacing Julie Newmar, who was unavaila...
at Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City....
. Kitt was later replaced by Jo Anne Worley

Jo Anne Worley

Jo Anne Worley is an United States actress. Her work covers television, movies, theater, game shows, talk shows, commercials, and cartoons. She is best known for her work on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In....
. He also appeared in the documentary That's Entertainment! III.

Rooney voiced Mr. Cherrywood in The Care Bears Movie
The Care Bears Movie

The Care Bears Movie is a 1985 in film animation feature film. It was the first film to feature the popular Care Bears toy characters, and one of the first to be based directly on a toy line....
(1985), and starred as the Movie Mason in a Disney Channel

Disney Channel

Disney Channel is a cable television television channel specializing in television programming for children through original series and movies as well as third party programming....
Original Movie family film 2000's Phantom of the Megaplex
Phantom of the Megaplex

The Phantom of the Megaplex is a List of Disney Channel Original Movies, produced by the Disney Channel and originally aired in 2000. With a title and concept very loosely based on The Phantom of the Opera, and described by one critic as a "blend of laughs and thrills for the family," the film concerns strange happenings at a Multiple...
. He had a guest spot on an episode of The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls is an United States situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a Miami, Florida home....
as Sophia's boyfriend Rocko, who claimed to be a bank robber. He played himself in the Simpsons episode "Radioactive Man

Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode)

"Radioactive Man" is the second episode of The Simpsons The Simpsons . It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 24, 1995....
" of 1995. In 1996-97, Mickey played Talbut on the TV series, Kleo The Misfit Unicorn

Kleo The Misfit Unicorn

Kleo The Misfit Unicorn is an animated television series for Children that now broadcast on Treehouse TV in Canada and Horse TV in the United States....
produced by Gordon Stanfield Animation (GSA)

Gordon Stanfield Animation (GSA)

Gordon Stanfield Animation is an historic animation service company based in Vancouver, British Columbia with over 20 years of development, pre-production and production experience....
. He co-starred in Night at the Museum
Night at the Museum

Night at the Museum is a 2006 in film American adventure comedy film. It is based on The Night at the Museum by Milan Trenc. It follows a divorced father trying to settle down, impress his son, and find his destiny....
in 2006 with Dick Van Dyke

Dick Van Dyke

Richard Wayne ?Dick? Van Dyke is an United States actor, presenter and entertainer, with a career spanning six decades. He is best known for his starring roles in Mary Poppins , Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder....
and Ben Stiller

Ben Stiller

Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor, film director, and film producer. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara....
.

Current work

Rooney appeared in television commercials for Garden State Life Insurance Company

Garden State Life Insurance Company

Garden State Life Insurance Company is a small direct life insurance company located in League City, Texas. It is a subsidiary of the Galveston, Texas based American National Insurance Company....
in 1999, alongside his wife Jan. In commercials shown in 2007, Rooney can be seen in the background washing imaginary dishes.

Rooney continues to work in film and tours with his wife in a multi-media live stage production called Let's Put On a Show! On May 26, 2007, he was grand marshal at the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival. Rooney made his British pantomime

Pantomime

Pantomime is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in Great Britain, Canada, Jamaica, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Republic of Ireland, Gibraltar and Republic of Malta, and is usually performed during the Christmas and New Year season....
debut, playing Baron Hardup in Cinderella

Cinderella

Cinderella , is a well-known classic folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world....
, at the Sunderland Empire Theatre over the 2007 Christmas period. He appeared on BBC Points West

BBC Points West

BBC Points West is the BBC's regional news programme for the West of England, covering Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. Produced by BBC West, the programme is produced from the BBC Broadcasting Centre at Whiteladies Road, Bristol with reporters also based at newsrooms in Bath, Somerset, Taunton, Swindon and Gloucester....
dressed in a pair of shorts and socks. He is currently playing Baron Hardup in Cinderella now at the Bristol Hippodrome from December 12, 2008 to January 8, 2009.

Personal life

, Rooney and his wife, Jan Chamberlin, live in Westlake Village, California

Westlake Village, California

Westlake Village is a community which straddles the Ventura and Los Angeles County line, encompassing all of the area surrounding the lake at Westlake, and neighborhoods north of the 101 Freeway as well....
. They met through his son, Mickey Jr., whom Jan had been dating at the time. They were married on August 7, 1978, when Jan was 39 and Mickey was 57. Both are outspoken advocates for veterans and animal rights

Animal rights

Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings....
.

After battling drug addiction and a near bankruptcy caused by gambling and bad investments, Rooney became a born-again Christian in the 1970s, reportedly after an angel appeared to him in a coffee shop. Rooney shared his religious beliefs on Jim

Jim Bakker

James Orsen Bakker is an United States Televangelism, a former Assemblies of God minister, and a former host of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program....
and Tammy Bakker's Christian television show The PTL Club
The PTL Club

The PTL Club was a daily religious-oriented television series hosted by Christian televangelists Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker. The PTL Club, which adopted a talk-show format, was the flagship television program of the Bakkers' PTL Satellite Network....
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Rooney's son Mickey Rooney, Jr. is also a born-again Christian, and has an evangelical ministry in Hemet, California

Hemet, California

Hemet is a city in Riverside County, California, located in the San Jacinto Valley and it spans 25.6 square miles, or about half of the valley, which it shares with it's neighbor to the north, the city of San Jacinto....
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Filmography

Feature films

Year	Title
1927	Orchids and Ermine
1932	The Beast of the City The Beast of the City *The Beast of the City* is a 1932 in film pre-Code gangster movie featuring cops as vigilantes – predating Dirty Harry by almost 40 years – and known for its singularly vicious ending....
	Sin's Pay Day
	High Speed
	Fast Companions
	My Pal, the King
	Officer Thirteen
1933	The Big Cage
	The Life of Jimmy Dolan
	The Big Chance
	Broadway to Hollywood
	The Chief
	The World Changes
1934	Beloved
	The Lost Jungle The Lost Jungle *The Lost Jungle* is a Mascot Pictures Serial .A semi-sequel to this serial, Darkest Africa, was released by Republic Pictures in 1936....
	I Like It That Way
	Manhattan Melodrama Manhattan Melodrama *Manhattan Melodrama* is a 1934 in film crime melodrama film, produced by MGM.It was film director by W. S. Van Dyke and stars Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton, and Isabel Jewell....
	Love Birds
	Half a Sinner
	Hide-Out Hide-Out *Hide-Out* is a 1934 in film comedy film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring Robert Montgomery and Maureen O'Sullivan. It also features a young Mickey Rooney....
	Chained
	Blind Date
	Death on the Diamond
1935	The County Chairman
	Reckless Reckless (1935 film) *Reckless* is a 1935 in film musical film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Jean Harlow, William Powell and Franchot Tone....
	The Healer
	A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film) *A Midsummer Night's Dream* is a film directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C....
	Rendezvous
	Ah, Wilderness! Ah, Wilderness! (film) *Ah, Wilderness!* is an adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill Ah, Wilderness!. The movie was filmed in Grafton, Massachusetts, directed by Clarence Brown, stars Wallace Beery as the drunken uncle later portrayed on Broadway theatre by Jackie Gleason, and features Lionel Barrymore, Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Spring Byington, and a young Micke...
1936	Riffraff
	Little Lord Fauntleroy Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936 film) *Little Lord Fauntleroy* is a 1936 in film drama film based on the 1886 Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The film stars Freddie Bartholomew as Cedric 'Ceddie' Errol, Dolores Costello as his mother, 'Dearest', and C....
	Down the Stretch
	The Devil is a Sissy The Devil is a Sissy *The Devil is a Sissy* is a 1936 United States MGM comedy drama film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and Rowland Brown. The film stars Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper and Mickey Rooney....
1937	A Family Affair A Family Affair (film) *A Family Affair* is the first entry in the Andy Hardy film series, though Mickey Rooney has a secondary role as the son of Judge Hardy, played by Lionel Barrymore....
	Captains Courageous Captains Courageous (film) *Captains Courageous* is a 1937 in film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, based on the Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling. The movie was produced by Louis D....
	Slave Ship Slave Ship (1937 film) *Slave Ship* is a 1937 in film film directed by Tay Garnett, starring Warner Baxter and Wallace Beery. The supporting cast includes Mickey Rooney, George Sanders, Jane Darwell, and Joseph Schildkraut....
	Hoosier Schoolboy
	Live, Love and Learn
	Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
	You're Only Young Once You're Only Young Once *You're Only Young Once* is the second Andy Hardy movie, with Lewis Stone permanently replacing Lionel Barrymore as Judge Hardy, and Mickey Rooney appearing as his son Andy....
1938	Love Is a Headache
	Judge Hardy's Children
	Hold That Kiss
	Lord Jeff
	Love Finds Andy Hardy Love Finds Andy Hardy *Love Finds Andy Hardy* is a 1938 in film romantic comedy film which tells the story of a Andy Hardy who becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time....
	Boys Town Boys Town (1938 film) *Boys Town* is a biographical film drama film based on Edward J. Flanagan's work with a group of disadvantaged and delinquent boys in a home that he founded and named "Girls and Boys Town"....
	Stablemates
	Out West with the Hardys
1939	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
	The Hardys Ride High
	Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
	Babes in Arms Babes in Arms (film) *Babes in Arms* is the 1939 in film film version of the 1937 Broadway musical Babes in Arms. The film version stars Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser, Grace Hayes and Betty Jaynes....
	Judge Hardy and Son
1940	Young Tom Edison Young Tom Edison *Young Tom Edison* is a 1940 in film biographical film about the early life of inventor Thomas Edison, with Mickey Rooney in the title role....
	Andy Hardy Meets Debutante Andy Hardy Meets Debutante *Andy Hardy Meets Debutante* is a 1940 in film American family film comedy film directed by George B. Seitz. The film stars Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden and Judy Garland....
	Strike Up the Band

Year	Title
1941	Andy Hardy's Private Secretary Andy Hardy's Private Secretary *Andy Hardy's Private Secretary* is a 1941 in film American family film comedy film directed by George B. Seitz. The film stars Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Kathryn Grayson, Ann Rutherford and Fay Holden....
	Men of Boys Town
	Life Begins for Andy Hardy
	Babes on Broadway Babes on Broadway *Babes on Broadway* is a 1941 in film musical movie starring Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, and Virginia Weidler and directed by Busby Berkeley....
1942	The Courtship of Andy Hardy
	A Yank at Eton A Yank at Eton *A Yank at Eton* was the 1942 sequel to the 1938 A Yank at Oxford. It was entirely filmed in Connecticut rather than on location. It tells the tale of an uncouth American attending Eton College and having difficulty fitting even even though people try to accommodate him....
	Andy Hardy's Double Life
1943	The Human Comedy The Human Comedy (film) *The Human Comedy* is a 1943 in film drama film directed by Clarence Brown and adapted by Howard Estabrook. It is often thought to be based on the novel of the The Human Comedy , but actually Saroyan wrote the screenplay first, was fired from the movie project, and quickly wrote the novel and published it just before the movie was released...
	Thousands Cheer Thousands Cheer *Thousands Cheer* was an United States musical film-comedy released by MGM in 1943.Produced at the height of the Second World War, the film was intended as a morale booster for American troops and their families....
	Girl Crazy Girl Crazy (1943 film) *Girl Crazy* is a 1943 musical film produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Based on the Girl Crazy, Girl Crazy stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in their ninth of ten pairings, partly filmed on location near Palm Springs, California....
1944	Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944	National Velvet National Velvet (film) *National Velvet* is a 1944 in film film based on the National Velvet by Enid Bagnold, first published in 1935. It stars a very young Elizabeth Taylor ....
1946	Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1947	Killer McCoy
1948	Summer Holiday
1948	Words and Music Words and Music (1948 film) *Words and Music* is a movie loosely based on the lives of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart. The film starred Mickey Rooney, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, and Ann Sothern and is best remembered for the final screen pairing between Rooney and Judy Garland and fine showcasing of the Rodgers & Hart catalog....
1949	The Big Wheel The Big Wheel (film) *The Big Wheel* is a 1949 in film film starring Mickey Rooney and Thomas Mitchell . Rooney plays a young son determined to follow in his father's footsteps as a race car driver....
1950	Quicksand Quicksand (1950 film) *Quicksand* is a United Artists feature film starring Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre in a story about a garage mechanic's descent into crime. The film has been described as "film noir in a teacup......
	The Fireball
	He's a Cockeyed Wonder
1951	My Outlaw Brother
1951	The Strip
1952	Sound Off
1953	Off Limits Off Limits (1953 film) *Off Limits* is a 1953 in film comedy film starring Bob Hope as a manager who enlists in the army to keep an eye on his boxer, who has been drafted....
	All Ashore
	A Slight Case of Larceny
1954	Drive a Crooked Road Drive a Crooked Road *Drive a Crooked Road* is a United States crime film noir directed by Richard Quine and written by NAME, based on an unpublished story written by NAME....
1954	The Atomic Kid The Atomic Kid *The Atomic Kid* is a 1954 in film Black-and-white science fiction film comedy film starring Mickey Rooney and directed by Leslie H. Martinson....
1955	The Bridges at Toko-Ri The Bridges at Toko-Ri *The Bridges at Toko-Ri* is a 1954 film based on a novel by James Michener about a naval aviator assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War....
1955	The Twinkle in God's Eye
1956	The Bold and the Brave The Bold and the Brave *The Bold and the Brave* is a 1956 in film Hollywood World War II film written by Robert Lewin and directed by Lewis R. Foster, starring Wendell Corey, Mickey Rooney, and Don Taylor ....
	Francis in the Haunted House Francis the Talking Mule Francis the Talking Mule was a mule celebrity, featured in seven movie comedies in the 1950s. The character originated in a novel by writer David Stern, and soon Universal Studios bought the rights for a film series, with Stern adapting his own script for the first entry, simply titled Francis....
	Magnificent Roughnecks
1957	Operation Mad Ball Operation Mad Ball *Operation Mad Ball* is a madcap 1957 military comedy starring Jack Lemmon, Kathryn Grant, Ernie Kovacs, Dick York, Arthur O'Connell, and Mickey Rooney and directed by Richard Quine....
1957	Baby Face Nelson Baby Face Nelson (film) *Baby Face Nelson* is a 1957 film directed by Don Siegel, starring Mickey Rooney as Baby Face Nelson, and featuring Leo Gordon as John Dillinger....
1958	A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958	Andy Hardy Comes Home
1959	The Big Operator
1959	The Last Mile
1960	Platinum High School
1960	The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
1961	King of the Roaring 20's - The Story of Arnold Rothstein
	Breakfast at Tiffany's Breakfast at Tiffany's *Breakfast at Tiffany's* is a 1961 in film United States film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney....
	Everything's Ducky Everything's Ducky *Everything's Ducky* is a 1961 film directed by Don Taylor and starring Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, and Jackie Cooper....
1962	Requiem for a Heavyweight Requiem for a Heavyweight *Requiem for a Heavyweight* was originally a teleplay written by Rod Serling and produced for the live television show Playhouse 90 on 11 October 1956....
1963	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World *It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World* is a 1963 in film American film comedy film directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 of stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers....
1964	The Secret Invasion The Secret Invasion *The Secret Invasion* is a 1964 in film war film directed by Roger Corman. In World War II, convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely hazardous mission....
1965	Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
1965	How to Stuff a Wild Bikini How to Stuff a Wild Bikini *How to Stuff a Wild Bikini* is a 1965 in film Beach Party film from American International Pictures. The sixth entry in a seven-film series, the movie features Mickey Rooney, Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Brian Donlevy, and Beverly Adams....
1966	The Devil In Love
1966	Ambush Bay
1968	Skidoo Skidoo (film) *Skidoo* is a 1968 in film comedy film directed by Otto Preminger, written by Doran William Cannon and released by Paramount Pictures. It satirizes the modern world and its wiktionary:creature comforts, technology, anti-technology, hippies and free love, and features the use of LSD....
1969	The Extraordinary Seaman
	The Comic
	80 Steps to Jonah

Year	Title
1970	Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County *The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County* is a Western comedy film produced in 1970 in film for Universal Pictures and directed by Anton Leader....
1971	Mooch Goes to Hollywood Mooch Goes to Hollywood *Mooch Goes to Hollywood* is a 1971 television movie about an ambitious dog and her attempts to become a canine star after befriending Zsa Zsa Gabor, who provides the pooch with the skinny on the INs and OUTs of achieving Hollywood fame....
1971	The Manipulator
1972	Richard
1972	Pulp Pulp (film) *Pulp* is a 1972 in film United Kingdom crime, thriller and comedy film, directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine as Mickey King, a writer of cheap paperback detective novels....
1973	The Godmothers
1974	Thunder County
1974	Rachel's Man
1975	Ace of Hearts
1975	From Hong Kong with Love
1976	Find the Lady
1977	The Domino Principle The Domino Principle *The Domino Principle* is a 1977 in film Thriller starred by Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Mickey Rooney and Richard Widmark. It was directed and produced by Stanley Kramer....
1977	Pete's Dragon Pete's Dragon *Pete's Dragon* is a live-action/animated film musical film feature film from Walt Disney Productions. It is a live-action film but its title character, a european dragon named Elliott, is animation....
1979	The Black Stallion The Black Stallion (film) *The Black Stallion* is a 1979 film based on the 1941 classic children's novel The Black Stallion by Walter Farley. It tells the story of Alec Ramsey, who is shipwrecked on a deserted island, together with a wild Arabian horse stallion whom he befriends....
1979	Arabian Adventure
1981	The Fox and the Hound The Fox and the Hound (film) *The Fox and the Hound* is a 1981 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions, first released to movie theatres in the United States on July 10, 1981.... (voice)
1982	The Emperor of Peru
1983	Bill: On his own
1984	It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
1986	Lightning, the White Stallion
1988	Bluegrass
1989	Erik the Viking Erik the Viking *Erik the Viking* is a 1989 in film film written and directed by Terry Jones, who also makes an appearance in it. The film was inspired by Jones's children's book The Saga of Erik the Viking , but the plot is completely different....
1991	My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
1992	The Milky Life
	Sweet Justice
	Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker *Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker* is the fifth movie in the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise. The film was also featured in an episode of Svengoolie....
	Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland
	Maximum Force Maximum Force *Maximum Force* is an Shoot 'em up#Tube and rail shooters light gun First person shooter arcade game developed by Mesa Logic for Atari Games in 1997....
1993	The Legend of Wolf Mountain
1994	Revenge of the Red Baron
	The Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
	Making Waves
1997	Killing Midnight
1998	The Face on the Barroom Floor
	Animals and the Tollkeeper
	Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
	Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights
	Babe: Pig in the City Babe: Pig in the City *Babe: Pig in the city* is the 1998 sequel to the film Babe . It occurs in the fictional city of Metropolis. Due to the unexpected darker and more mature subject matter , the film was not received as well critically as the first Babe movie was, and reviews were generally mixed....
1999	Holy Hollywood
1999	The First of May
2000	Internet Love
2000	Phantom of the Megaplex
2002	Topa Topa Bluffs
2003	Paradise
2005	Strike the Tent
2005	A Christmas Too Many
2006	The Thirsting
	To Kill a Mockumentary
	Night at the Museum Night at the Museum *Night at the Museum* is a 2006 in film American adventure comedy film. It is based on The Night at the Museum by Milan Trenc. It follows a divorced father trying to settle down, impress his son, and find his destiny....
2007	The Yesterday Pool
2007	Bamboo Shark
2008	Lost Stallions: The Journey Home Lost Stallions: The Journey Home *Lost Stallions: The Journey Home* is a 2008 family film/drama film directed by David Rotan and starring Mickey Rooney....
2008	Driving Me Crazy

Short subjects

Year	Title
1926	Not to Be Trusted
1927	Mickey's Circus
	Mickey's Pals
	Mickey's Eleven
	Mickey's Battles
1928	Mickey's Minstrels
	Mickey's Parade
	Mickey in School
	Mickey's Nine
	Mickey's Little Eva
	Mickey's Wild West
	Mickey in Love
	Mickey's Triumph
	Mickey's Babies
	Mickey's Movies
	Mickey's Rivals
	Mickey the Detective
	Mickey's Athletes
	Mickey's Big Game Hunt
1929	Mickey's Great Idea
	Mickey's Explorers
	Mickey's Menagerie
	Mickey's Last Chance
	Mickey's Brown Derby
	Mickey's Northwest Mounted

Year	Title
1929	Mickey's Initiation
	Mickey's Midnite Follies
	Mickey's Surprise
	Mickey's Mix-Up
	Mickey's Big Moment
	Mickey's Strategy
1930	Mickey's Champs
	Mickey's Master Mind
	Mickey's Luck
	Mickey's Whirlwinds
	Mickey's Warriors
	Mickey the Romeo
	Mickey's Merry Men
	Mickey's Winners
	Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 24
	Mickey's Musketeers
	Mickey's Bargain
1931	Mickey's Stampede
	Mickey's Crusaders
	Mickey's Rebellion
	Mickey's Diplomacy
	Mickey's Wildcats
	Mickey's Thrill Hunters
	Mickey's Helping Hand
	Mickey's Sideline

Year	Title
1932	Mickey's Busy Day
	Mickey's Travels
	Mickey's Holiday
	Mickey's Big Business
	Mickey's Golden Rule
	Mickey's Charity
1933	Mickey's Ape Man
	Mickey's Race
	Mickey's Big Broadcast
	Mickey's Touchdown
	Mickey's Tent Show
	Mickey's Covered Wagon
1934	Mickey's Medicine Man
1935	Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1936	Mickey's Derby Day
1937	Cinema Circus
1938	Andy Hardy's Dilemma
1940	Rodeo Dough
1941	Meet the Stars #4: Variety Reel #2
1943	Show Business at War Show Business at War *Show Business at War* was a short film made in 1943 in film to tout the United States film industry's contribution to the Second World War war effort....
1947	Screen Snapshots: Out of This World Series
1953	Screen Snapshots: Mickey Rooney - Then and Now
1958	Screen Snapshots: Glamorous Hollywood
1968	Vienna
1974	Just One More Time
1975	The Lion Roars Again
2008	Wreck the Halls

Television

Mickey Rooney has made countless appearances in TV sitcoms and TV movies. He has also lent his voice to many animation films. Only his most important work is listed in this section.

Year(s)	Title
1954-1955	The Mickey Rooney Show
1964-1965	Mickey Mickey (TV series) *Mickey* is a 17-episode situation comedy starring Mickey Rooney as Mickey Grady, the owner of the luxury Newport Arms Hotel in Newport Beach, California, California, which aired on American Broadcasting Company from September 16, 1964, to January 13, 1965....
1981	Bill Bill (TV movie) *Bill* is a 1981 CBS television biographical film starring Mickey Rooney and Dennis Quaid. A sequel titled Bill: On His Own was released in 1983.... (won Emmy, Golden Globe, and Peabody Award for role of Bill)
1982	One of the Boys (canceled after 13 episodes)
1983	Bill: On His Own (sequel to 1981's "Bill" nominated for Emmy)
1990-1993	The Adventures of the Black Stallion Adventures of the Black Stallion *Adventures of The Black Stallion* is a television series that was loosely based on the movies The Black Stallion and The Black Stallion Returns ....

Marriages

Name	Years	Children
Ava Gardner Ava Gardner Ava Lavinia Gardner was an Academy Award-nominated United States actress. She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years......	1942-1943
Betty Jane Rase	1944-1949	Mickey Rooney, Jr. Mickey Rooney, Jr. Mickey Rooney, Jr. is a retired United States actor and the eldest son of the actor Mickey Rooney. He operates the Rooney Entertainment Group, a movie and TV production company.... (born July 3, 1945)
Betty Jane Rase	1944-1949	Tim Rooney Tim Rooney Timothy Hayes Rooney was an United States actor and voice actor. He was the second son of actor Mickey Rooney and suffered from a muscle disease known as dermatomyositis... (January 4, 1947 - September 23, 2006)
Martha Vickers Martha Vickers Martha Vickers was an American film actress....	1949-1951	Theodore Michael Rooney (born April 13, 1950)
Elaine Devry Elaine Devry Elaine Devry is an American actress. She appeared in a number of films including A Guide for the Married Man and was formerly married to actor Mickey Rooney....	1952-1958
Barbara Ann Thomason (Carolyn Mitchell)	1958-1966	Kelly Ann Rooney (born September 13, 1959)
		Kerry Rooney (born December 30, 1960)
		Michael Joseph Rooney (born April 2, 1962)
		Kimmy Sue Rooney (born September 13, 1963)
Marge Lane	1966-1967
Carolyn Hockett	1969-1974	Jimmy Rooney (adopted from Carolyn's previous marriage) (born 1966)
Carolyn Hockett	1969-1974	Jonelle Rooney (born January 11, 1970)
Jan Chamberlin	1978-present

External links

Montreal Mirror
Montreal Mirror

Montreal Mirror is an English language alternative newsweekly based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a circulation of 70,000 and reaches a quarter of a million readers per week....
interview 1998

Mickey Rooney

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