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).
311 movies · 75 shows
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
2019·5.7
Sid & Judy
2019·7.4
Marilyn and I
2019·10.0
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
2017·5.8
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2017·4.2
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014·6.2
The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
2014·7.0
The Voices from Beyond
2012·0.0
Driving Me Crazy
2012·0.0
The Muppets
2011·6.7
Night Club
2011·2.0
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
2010·0.0
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
2009·6.0
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009·7.5
The Polio Crusade
2009·0.0
Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective
2009·0.0
A Miser Brothers' Christmas
2008·5.9
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008·8.0
Empire State Building Murders
2008·0.0
Lost Stallions: The Journey Home
2008·8.0
A Christmas Too Many
2007·3.5
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
2007·7.0
Night at the Museum
2006·6.6
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
2006·6.6
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006·7.0
The Thirsting
2006·3.3
The Happy Elf
2005·4.8
The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams
2005·6.0
Judy Garland Duets
2005·0.0
Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals
2005·0.0
Judy Garland: By Myself
2004·8.3
Hollywood Legenden
2004·4.5
To Kill a Mockumentary
2004·5.3
Illusion Infinity
2004·8.0
Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003·6.4
Cleavage
2002·6.0
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
2001·6.3
Phantom of the Megaplex
2000·6.0
The First of May
1999·7.5
Boys Will Be Boys
1999·6.2
Babe: Pig in the City
1998·5.7
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
1998·5.3
Internet Love
1998·10.0
Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights
1998·4.0
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
1998·4.0
Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998·7.8
Conan
1997·6.7
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
1997·0.0
Private Screenings: Mickey Rooney
1997·0.0
Killing Midnight
1997·5.5
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995·8.0
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
1995·6.0
Brothers' Destiny
1995·7.5
Revenge of the Red Baron
1994·3.0
That's Entertainment! III
1994·7.0
The Our Gang Story
1994·0.0
Making Waves
1994·5.0
Liberation
1994·7.9
The Milky Life
1993·3.6
Maximum Force
1992·4.8
The Legend of Wolf Mountain
1992·4.9
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker
1991·4.6
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
1991·4.8
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
1991·6.3
Sweet Justice
1991·4.7
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
1991·8.0
Home for Christmas
1990·6.4
Adventures of the Black Stallion
1990·10.0
Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990·6.8
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
1990·8.3
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
1989·0.0
Erik the Viking
1989·5.9
Lightning, the White Stallion
1986·4.7
Little Spies
1986·6.5
There Must Be a Pony
1986·6.8
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
1986·6.3
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986·8.3
The Care Bears Movie
1985·6.1
That's Dancing!
1985·6.9
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
1985·2.0
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
1984·5.9
Bill: On His Own
1983·7.2
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983·7.0
O’Malley
1983·10.0
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
1983·0.0
Showbiz Goes to War
1982·10.0
The Emperor of Peru
1982·3.9
Night of 100 Stars
1982·5.8
Hollywood’s Children
1982·9.0
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982·6.0
Senior Trip
1981·4.1
Bill
1981·7.4
The Fox and the Hound
1981·7.2
Leave 'Em Laughing
1981·8.0
Creole
1981·7.0
My Kidnapper, My Love
1980·7.5
From Raquel with Love
1980·9.0
The Black Stallion
1979·7.0
Arabian Adventure
1979·5.9
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
1979·6.4
Donovan's Kid
1979·7.5
Mickey's 50
1978·9.0
The Magic of Lassie
1978·5.8
Pete's Dragon
1977·6.3
The Domino Principle
1977·5.9
Find the Lady
1976·3.9
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976·7.0
Rachel's Man
1976·9.0
It's Showtime
1976·7.5
Hooray for Hollywood
1976·8.0
From Hong Kong with Love
1975·5.1
Ace of Hearts
1975·9.0
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975·6.3
The Intruder
1975·5.1
The Lion Roars Again
1975·6.5
The Year Without a Santa Claus
1974·7.1
That's Entertainment!
1974·7.4
Thunder County
1974·4.7
The Godmothers
1973·5.5
Journey Back to Oz
1972·5.4
Pulp
1972·5.8
Richard
1972·6.7
Fol-de-Rol
1972·0.0
Evil Roy Slade
1972·6.3
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972·7.3
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971·4.8
The Manipulator
1971·4.5
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
1970·7.1
Hollywood Blue
1970·10.0
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970·6.8
80 Steps to Jonah
1969·5.1
The Comic
1969·6.1
The Extraordinary Seaman
1969·3.6
Skidoo
1968·4.7
Vienna
1968·6.3
Lionpower from MGM
1967·6.3
The Devil in Love
1966·5.8
Ambush Bay
1966·5.6
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965·5.3
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
1965·6.1
The Secret Invasion
1964·5.8
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963·7.0
Requiem for a Heavyweight
1962·7.2
Everything's Ducky
1961·6.5
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961·7.6
Who Killed Julie Greer?
1961·0.0
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
1961·6.4
Platinum High School
1960·6.5
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
1960·4.3
The Big Operator
1959·6.0
The Last Mile
1959·6.5
Andy Hardy Comes Home
1958·5.0
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958·4.8
Baby Face Nelson
1957·5.6
Pinocchio
1957·8.0
Operation Mad Ball
1957·6.7
Mr. Broadway
1957·7.0
The Comedian
1957·9.0
Magnificent Roughnecks
1956·10.0
Francis in the Haunted House
1956·5.8
The Bold and the Brave
1956·6.2
The Twinkle In God's Eye
1955·7.5
The Atomic Kid
1954·5.0
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
1954·6.0
Drive a Crooked Road
1954·6.2
A Slight Case of Larceny
1953·5.5
Screen Snapshots: Mickey Rooney, Then and Now
1953·10.0
All Ashore
1953·7.3
Off Limits
1952·5.9
Sound Off
1952·9.0
The Strip
1951·5.9
My Outlaw Brother
1951·5.6
He's a Cockeyed Wonder
1950·4.3
The Fireball
1950·6.0
Quicksand
1950·6.1
The Big Wheel
1949·5.7
Words and Music
1948·5.8
Summer Holiday
1948·5.2
Killer McCoy
1947·6.3
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1946·5.9
Mickey the Great
1945·7.0
National Velvet
1945·7.2
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944·6.3
Girl Crazy
1943·5.6
Thousands Cheer
1943·6.4
Show-Business at War
1943·7.0
The Human Comedy
1943·6.2
Andy Hardy's Double Life
1942·5.0
A Yank at Eton
1942·6.1
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
1942·6.2
Personalities
1942·0.0
Babes on Broadway
1941·6.6
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
1941·6.0
Men of Boys Town
1941·6.4
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
1941·5.7
Rodeo Dough
1940·6.4
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940·6.8
Strike Up the Band
1940·6.6
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940·6.3
Trifles of Importance
1940·7.5
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
1940·5.7
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940·5.8
Young Tom Edison
1940·5.9
Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things
1940·8.0
Judge Hardy and Son
1939·5.9
Babes in Arms
1939·6.4
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
1939·5.7
From the Ends of the Earth
1939·5.0
The Hardys Ride High
1939·6.5
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939·4.0
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939·6.7
Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family)
1939·5.5
Out West with the Hardys
1938·6.7
Stablemates
1938·6.3
Boys Town
1938·6.8
Love Finds Andy Hardy
1938·6.2
Lord Jeff
1938·7.3
Hollywood Handicap
1938·4.8
Hold That Kiss
1938·7.0
Judge Hardy's Children
1938·6.8
Another Romance of Celluloid
1938·5.3
Love Is a Headache
1938·6.5
March of Dimes
1938·10.0
You're Only Young Once
1937·5.7
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
1937·5.9
Live, Love and Learn
1937·5.6
Hoosier Schoolboy
1937·7.0
Captains Courageous
1937·7.4
Slave Ship
1937·5.1
A Family Affair
1937·5.9
Cinema Circus
1937·8.0
Down the Stretch
1936·6.0
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936·7.0
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1936·6.8
Riffraff
1936·5.4
A Dream Comes True
1935·6.3
Ah, Wilderness!
1935·6.6
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935·6.1
Rendezvous
1935·4.9
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935·6.4
The Healer
1935·6.2
Reckless
1935·5.1
The County Chairman
1935·6.0
Death on the Diamond
1934·7.3
Chained
1934·7.0
Hide-Out
1934·7.3
Blind Date
1934·8.0
The Lost Jungle
1934·4.3
Half a Sinner
1934·8.0
Mickey's Medicine Man
1934·7.0
Manhattan Melodrama
1934·7.0
Love Birds
1934·6.5
I Like it That Way
1934·7.0
Mickey's Rescue
1934·10.0
Beloved
1934·9.0
Mickey's Minstrels
1934·8.0
Mickey's Covered Wagon
1933·8.0
The World Changes
1933·4.8
The Chief
1933·5.5
Mickey's Tent Show
1933·10.0
Mickey's Touchdown
1933·10.0
Broadway to Hollywood
1933·5.0
The Big Chance
1933·4.9
Mickey's Disguises
1933·9.0
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933·6.2
The Big Cage
1933·8.0
Mickey's Race
1933·8.0
Mickey's Ape Man
1933·8.0
Officer Thirteen
1932·6.6
Fast Companions
1932·7.5
My Pal, the King
1932·8.0
High Speed
1932·5.0
Sin's Pay Day
1932·6.0
The Beast of the City
1932·5.9
Mickey's Busy Day
1932·8.0
The Fisherman
1931·6.8
The Hare Mail
1931·6.5
The Hunter
1931·6.8
Mickey's Thrill Hunters
1931·6.0
Hot Feet
1931·5.5
Mickey's Wildcats
1931·8.0
Radio Rhythm
1931·7.0
Mickey's Rebellion
1931·8.0
Mickey's Stampede
1931·7.0
Mickey's Warriors
1930·9.0
Mickey's Whirlwinds
1930·8.0
Mickey's Luck
1930·8.0
The Voice of Hollywood No. 8
1930·0.0
Mickey's Champs
1930·9.0
Mickey's Big Moment
1929·9.0
Mickey's Mix-Up
1929·7.0
Mickey's Surprise
1929·7.0
Mickey's Midnite Follies
1929·9.0
Mickey's Northwest Mounted
1929·10.0
Mickey's Brown Derby
1929·8.0
Mickey's Menagerie
1929·7.0
Mickey's Explorers
1929·9.0
Mickey's Great Idea
1929·8.0
Mickey's Big Game Hunt
1928·8.0
Mickey the Detective
1928·8.0
Mickey's Rivals
1928·9.0
Mickey's Movies
1928·9.0
Mickey's Wild West
1928·8.0
Mickey's Little Eva
1928·8.0
Mickey in School
1928·9.0
Mickey's Battle
1927·10.0
Mickey's Eleven
1927·7.0
Mickey's Pals
1927·5.5
Mickey's Circus
1927·6.5
Orchids and Ermine
1927·5.9
Cinema Stars - No. 15
1925·0.0