Mickey Rooney
Born September 23, 1920 (Age: 105)
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Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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).
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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Filmography
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
2019
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 99
Marilyn and I
2019
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 98
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014
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as Gus
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Age: 94
No Image
Treasure Train
2011
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as
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Age: 91
The Muppets
2011
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as Smalltown Resident
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Age: 91
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
2010
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as Self
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Age: 89
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
2009
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 89
The Polio Crusade
2009
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as Archive Footage (from March of Dimes)
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Age: 88
Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective
2009
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 88
Night at the Museum
2006
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as Gus
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Age: 86
Judy Garland Duets
2005
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 84
No Image
Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals
2005
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as Self
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Age: 84
Judy Garland: By Myself
2004
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as Self - Actor (voice)
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Age: 83
To Kill a Mockumentary
2004
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as Max
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Age: 83
Illusion Infinity
2004
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as Simon / Henry, Sr.
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Age: 83
No Image
Hollywood Legenden
2004
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as Self
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Age: 83
Phantom of the Megaplex
2000
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as Movie Mason
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Age: 80
Babe: Pig in the City
1998
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as Fugly Floom, the Speechless Man in Hotel
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Age: 78
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
1998
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as Andy Hardy (archive footage)
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Age: 78
Internet Love
1998
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as Self
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Age: 77
Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights
1998
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as Sage
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Age: 77
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
1998
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as Griffith
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Age: 77
Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998
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as Tollkeeper
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Age: 77
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Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
1997
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as Self - Actor
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Age: 76
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Private Screenings: Mickey Rooney
1997
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as Self
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Age: 76
Killing Midnight
1997
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as Professor Mort Sang
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Age: 76
That's Entertainment! III
1994
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as Self - Co-Host / Narrator
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Age: 73
The Our Gang Story
1994
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 73
The Milky Life
1993
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as Barry Reilly
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Age: 72
Maximum Force
1992
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as Chief of Police
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Age: 72
The Legend of Wolf Mountain
1992
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as Pat Jensen
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Age: 71
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker
1991
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as Joe Petto
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Age: 71
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
1991
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as The Director
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Age: 71
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
1991
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as Junion
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Age: 70
Sweet Justice
1991
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as Zeke
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Age: 70
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
1991
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 70
Home for Christmas
1990
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as Elmer
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Age: 70
Adventures of the Black Stallion
1990
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as Henry Dailey
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Age: 69
Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 69
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
1990
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 69
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
1989
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as Self
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Age: 69
Erik the Viking
1989
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as Erik's Grandfather
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Age: 68
The Care Bears Movie
1985
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as Mr. Cherrywood (voice)
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Age: 64
That's Dancing!
1985
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 64
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
1985
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 64
O’Malley
1983
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as Mickey O’Malley
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Age: 62
Hollywood’s Children
1982
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 61
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 61
Senior Trip
1981
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as Self
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Age: 61
Bill
1981
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as Bill Sackter
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Age: 61
The Fox and the Hound
1981
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as Tod (voice)
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Age: 60
Leave 'Em Laughing
1981
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as Jack Thum
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Age: 60
No Image
Creole
1981
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as Narrator
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Age: 60
My Kidnapper, My Love
1980
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as The Maker
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Age: 60
From Raquel with Love
1980
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as Paradise Cab Company cabbie
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Age: 60
The Black Stallion
1979
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as Henry Dailey
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Age: 59
Mickey's 50
1978
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as Self
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Age: 58
The Magic of Lassie
1978
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as Gus
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Age: 57
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 55
Hooray for Hollywood
1976
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as Narrator
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Age: 55
The Year Without a Santa Claus
1974
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as Santa Claus (voice)
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Age: 54
That's Entertainment!
1974
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as Self - Host / Narrator
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Age: 53
Thunder County
1974
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as Gas Station Attendant
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Age: 53
The Godmothers
1973
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as Rocky Mastrasso
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Age: 53
Journey Back to Oz
1972
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as Scarecrow (voice)
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Age: 52
Richard
1972
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as Guardian Angel
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Age: 51
Fol-de-Rol
1972
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as The Executioner / Noah
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Age: 51
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 51
Hollywood Blue
1970
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as
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Age: 50
80 Steps to Jonah
1969
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as Wilfred Bashford
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Age: 49
The Comic
1969
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as Cockeye
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Age: 49
The Extraordinary Seaman
1969
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as Cook 3 / C W.J. Oglethorpe
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Age: 48
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965
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as Peachy Keane
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Age: 44
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
1965
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as Norman Jones
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Age: 44
The Secret Invasion
1964
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as Terence Scanlon
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Age: 43
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
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as Ding 'Dingy' Bell
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Age: 43
Requiem for a Heavyweight
1962
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as Army
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Age: 42
Everything's Ducky
1961
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as Kermit 'Beetle' McKay
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Age: 41
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961
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as Mr. Yunioshi
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Age: 41
Who Killed Julie Greer?
1961
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as Mike Zampini
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Age: 41
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
1961
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as Johnny Burke
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Age: 40
Platinum High School
1960
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as Steven Conway
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Age: 39
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
1960
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as Nick Lewis / The Devil
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Age: 39
The Big Operator
1959
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as Little Joe Braun
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Age: 38
The Last Mile
1959
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as John Mears
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Age: 38
Andy Hardy Comes Home
1958
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as Andy Hardy
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Age: 38
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958
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as Gus Harris
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Age: 38
Magnificent Roughnecks
1956
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as Frank Sommers
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Age: 35
Francis in the Haunted House
1956
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as David Prescott
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Age: 35
The Bold and the Brave
1956
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as Willie Dooley
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Age: 35
The Twinkle In God's Eye
1955
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as Rev. William Macklin II
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Age: 35
The Atomic Kid
1954
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as Barnaby 'Blix' Waterberry
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Age: 34
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
1954
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as Mike Forney
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Age: 34
Drive a Crooked Road
1954
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as Eddie Shannon
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Age: 33
A Slight Case of Larceny
1953
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as Augustus "Geechy" Cheevers
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Age: 32
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Screen Snapshots: Mickey Rooney, Then and Now
1953
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as Himself
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Age: 32
All Ashore
1953
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as Francis 'Moby' Dickerson
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Age: 32
He's a Cockeyed Wonder
1950
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as Freddie Frisby
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Age: 30
The Fireball
1950
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as Johnny Casar
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Age: 30
Quicksand
1950
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as Daniel 'Dan' Brady
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Age: 29
Mickey the Great
1945
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as Mickey McGuire
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Age: 24
National Velvet
1945
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as Michael 'Mi' Taylor
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Age: 24
Andy Hardy's Double Life
1942
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as Andy Hardy
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Age: 22
A Yank at Eton
1942
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as Timothy Dennis
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Age: 21
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
1942
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as Andy Hardy
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Age: 21
No Image
Personalities
1942
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as Andy Hardy (screen test footage) (uncredited)
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Age: 21
Babes on Broadway
1941
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as Tommy Williams
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Age: 21
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
1941
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as Andy Hardy
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Age: 20
Men of Boys Town
1941
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as Whitey Marsh
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Age: 20
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
1941
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as Andy Hardy
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Age: 20
Officer Thirteen
1932
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as Buddy Malone
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Age: 12
Fast Companions
1932
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as Midge
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Age: 11
My Pal, the King
1932
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as King Charles V
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Age: 11
High Speed
1932
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as Buddy Whipple (uncredited)
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Age: 11
Sin's Pay Day
1932
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as Chubby Dennis
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Age: 11
The Beast of the City
1932
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as Mickey Fitzpatrick (uncredited)
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Age: 11
No Image
Mickey's Busy Day
1932
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as Mickey McGuire
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Age: 11
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The Fisherman
1931
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as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
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Age: 11
No Image
The Hare Mail
1931
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as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
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Age: 11
The Hunter
1931
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as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 11
Mickey's Thrill Hunters
1931
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as Mickey McGuire
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Age: 10
No Image
Hot Feet
1931
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as Oswald (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 10
Mickey's Wildcats
1931
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as Mickey McGuire
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Age: 10
No Image
Radio Rhythm
1931
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as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (voice)
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Age: 10
Mickey's Rebellion
1931
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as Mickey McGuire
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Age: 10
Mickey's Stampede
1931
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as Mickey McGuire
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Age: 10
Mickey's Warriors
1930
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as Mickey McGuire
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Age: 9
Mickey's Whirlwinds
1930
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as Mickey McGuire
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Age: 9
Mickey's Luck
1930
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as Mickey McGuire
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Age: 9
No Image
The Voice of Hollywood No. 8
1930
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as
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Age: 9
Mickey's Champs
1930
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as Mickey McGuire
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Age: 9