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Biography

Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr. ; (September 23, 1920) is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He has received multiple awards, including a Academy Juvenile Award|Juvenile Academy Award , an Academy Honorary Award|Honorary Academy Award , two Golden Globe s and an Emmy Award . Working as a performer since he was a child, he was a superstar as a teenager for the films in which he played Andy Hardy , and he has had one of the longest careers of any actor, to date spanning 90 years actively making films in ten decades, from 1920s to 2010s. He is the last surviving male star from 1930s Hollywood. For a younger generation of fans, he gained international fame for his leading role as Henry Dailey in Television networks preceding ABC Family|The Family Channel 's The Adventures of the Black Stallion , as well as the film itself.

Early life

Rooney was born Joseph Yule, Jr. in Brooklyn, New York . His father, Joe Yule|Joseph Yule , was from Scotland , and his mother, Nellie W. (née Carter), was from Kansas City, Missouri . Both of his parents were in vaudeville , appearing in a Brooklyn production of A Gaiety Girl 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. Life Is Too Short . Autobiography (1991). ISBN 978-0-679-40195-7

When he was 14 months old, unknown to everyone, he crawled onstage wearing overalls and a little harmonica around his neck. He sneezed and his father, Joe Sr., grabbed him up, introducing him to the audience as Sonny Yule. He felt the spotlight on him and has described it as his mother's womb. From that moment on, the stage was his home.

His father was a womanizer and heavy drinker, leaving the family when Joe Jr. was only three. While Joe Sr. was traveling, Joe Jr. and his mother moved from Brooklyn, New York to Kansas City, Missouri to live with his aunt. While his mother was reading the entertainment newspaper, Nellie was interested in getting Hal Roach to approach the young star to participate in the Our Gang series in Hollywood . Roach offered $5 a day to Joe Jr. while the other young stars were paid five times more.

As he was getting bit parts in films, he was working with other established film stars such as Joel McCrea , Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Jean Harlow . While selling newspapers around the corner, he also entered into Hollywood Professional School , where he went to school with dozens of unfamiliar students such as: Joseph A. Wapner , Nanette Fabray , Judy Garland , Lana Turner , among many others, and later Hollywood High School , where he graduated in 1938.

Career

Mickey McGuire

The Yules separated in 1924 during a slump in vaudeville, and in 1925, Nell Yule moved with her son to Hollywood, California , where she managed a tourist home. Fontaine Fox had placed a newspaper ad for a dark-haired child to play the role of "Mickey McGuire" in a Mickey McGuire (film series)|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. Current Biography 1942 . H.W. Wilson Co. (January 1942). pp704-06. ISBN 99903-960-3-5. 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 Folks|Toonerville Trolley comic strip, which contained a character named Mickey McGuire. Joe Yule briefly became Mickey McGuire legally in order to trump an attempted copyright lawsuit (if it was his legal name, the film producer Larry Darmour did not owe the comic strip writers royalties). His mother also changed her surname to McGuire in an attempt to bolster the argument, but the film producers lost. The litigation settlement awarded damages to the owners of the cartoon character, as well as compelled the twelve-year-old actor to refrain from calling himself by the name Mickey McGuire on and off screen.Server, Lee, Ava Gardner "Love is Nothing"'' (2006), St. Martin's Press

Rooney later claimed that, during his Mickey McGuire days, he met cartoonist Walt Disney at the Warner Brothers studio, and that Disney was inspired to name Mickey Mouse after him,Albin, Kira. . GrandTimes.com Senior Magazine. 1995. although Disney always said that he had changed the name from "Mortimer Mouse" to "Mickey Mouse" on the suggestion of his wife.Gabler, Neal, Walt Disney , (2006), Alfred A. Knopf

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 (film)|A Family Affair , setting Rooney on the way to another successful film series.

"Andy Hardy" and Judy Garland

In 1937, Rooney was selected to portray Andy Hardy in A Family Affair (1937), which MGM had planned as a B-movie . Rooney provided comic relief as the son of Judge James K. Hardy, portrayed by Lionel Barrymore (although Lewis Stone would play the role of Judge Hardy in later films). The film was an unexpected success, and led to 13 more Andy Hardy films between 1937 and 1946, and a final film in 1958. Rooney also received top billing as "Shockey Carter" in Hoosier Schoolboy (1937).

Also in 1937, Mickey made his first film alongside Judy Garland with '' Thoroughbreds Don't Cry . Garland and Rooney became close friends and 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, they appeared together in a string of successful musicals, including the Oscar-nominated Babes in Arms (film)|Babes in Arms (1939). During an interview in the documentary film When the Lion Roars , Rooney describes their friendship:

Rooney's breakthrough role as a dramatic actor came in 1938's Boys Town (1938 film)|Boys Town opposite Spencer Tracy as Whitey Marsh, which opened shortly before his 18th birthday. Rooney was awarded a special Academy Juvenile Award|Juvenile Academy Award in 1939 and was named the biggest box-office draw in 1939, 1940 and 1941."In 1939 became the top box-office star in the world, a title he held for three consecutive years." Kenneth Branagh|Branagh, Kenneth (narrator). ''1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year''. Turner Classic Movies , 2009. Unquestionably a well-known entertainer by the early 1940s, Rooney, with Garland, was one of many celebrities caricatured in Tex Avery 's 1941 Warner Bros. cartoon Hollywood Steps Out . As of 2012, Rooney is the only surviving entertainer depicted in the cartoon. In 1991, Rooney was honored by the Young Artist Award|Young Artist Foundation with its Young Artist Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award|Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award recognizing his achievements within the film industry as a child actor . After presenting the award to Rooney, the foundation subsequently renamed the accolade "The Mickey Rooney Award" in his honor.

After the war

In 1944, Rooney entered military service. He served more than 21 months, until shortly after the end of World War II. During and after the war he helped entertain the troops in America and Europe, and spent part of the time as a radio personality on the American Forces Network and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for entertaining troops in combat zones. In addition to the Bronze Star Medal, Rooney also received the Army Good Conduct Medal , American Campaign Medal , European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal , and World War Two Victory Medal for his military service.

After his return to civilian life, his career slumped. He appeared in a number of films, including Words and Music (1948 film)|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 Columbia Broadcasting Company|CBS variety series in 1963). He briefly starred in a CBS radio series, Shorty Bell , in the summer of 1948, and reprised his role as "Andy Hardy", with most of the original cast, in a syndicated radio version of The Hardy Family in 1949 and 1950 (repeated on Mutual during 1952). Dunning, John , On The Air: The Encyclopedia Of Old-Time Radio (1998), Oxford University Press

His first television series, The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan (created by Blake Edwards with Rooney as his own producer), appeared on National Broadcasting Company|NBC television for thirty-two episodes between August 28, 1954 and June 4, 1955. In 1951, he directed a feature film for Columbia Pictures , My True Story starring Helen Walker . Rooney also starred as a ragingly egomaniacal television comedian in the live 90-minute television drama The Comedian (1957 TV drama)|The Comedian , in the Playhouse 90 series on the evening of Valentine's Day in 1957, and as himself in a revue called The Musical Revue of 1959 based on the 1929 film The Hollywood Revue of 1929 which was edited into a film in 1960, by British International Pictures .

In 1958, Rooney joined Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in hosting an episode of NBC's short-lived Club Oasis comedy and variety show. In 1960, Rooney directed and starred in The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (film)|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 films, but occasionally would appear in better works, such as Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962), '' It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and The Black Stallion (film)|The Black Stallion '' (1979). One of Rooney's more controversial roles came in the highly acclaimed 1961 film '' Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)|Breakfast at Tiffany's '' where he played a stereotyped buck-toothed Myopia|myopic Japanese neighbor ( Mickey Rooney's Portrayal of I.Y. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's|Mr. Yunioshi ) of the main character, Holly Golightly. Despite Rooney's protests that he was congratulated for the role by Asians, that role would later be held up as one of the most notorious examples of Hollywood's history of stereotypical depictions of that racial group, evidenced in the film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story when future Asian-American film star, Bruce Lee , was deeply offended seeing the film.

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 the film Ambush Bay in the Philippines , his wife Barbara Ann Thomason (akas: 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 , an actor friend of Rooney's. Detectives ruled it murder-suicide , which was committed with Rooney's own gun.

Rooney was awarded an Academy Juvenile Award in 1938, and in 1983 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted him their Academy Honorary Award for his lifetime of achievement. He was mentioned in the 1972 song " Celluloid Heroes " by The Kinks : ''"If you stomped on Mickey Rooney/ He'd still turn round and smile..."

Character actor

In addition to his movie roles, Rooney made numerous guest-starring roles as a character actor for nearly six decades, beginning with an episode of Celanese Theatre . The part led to other roles on such television series as Schlitz Playhouse , Playhouse 90 , ''Producers' Showcase , Alcoa Theatre , Wagon Train , G.E. True Theater , Hennesey , The Dick Powell Theatre , Arrest and Trial , Burke's Law , Combat! , The Fugitive (TV series)|The Fugitive , Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre , The Jean Arthur Show , The Name of the Game , Dan August , Night Gallery , The Love Boat , Kung Fu: The Legend Continues , among many others.

Television, stage and The Black Stallion

Rooney made a successful transition to television and stage work. In 1961, he guest starred in the 13-week James Franciscus adventure – drama television series The Investigators (American TV series)|The Investigators on CBS. In 1963, he even entered The Twilight Zone , giving a one-man performance in the episode " The Last Night of a Jockey ". In 1964, he launched another half-hour sitcom , Mickey (TV series)|Mickey , on American Broadcasting Company|ABC . The story line had "Mickey" operating a resort hotel in southern California . Son Tim Rooney appeared as Rooney's teenaged son on the program, and Emmaline Henry starred as Rooney's wife. It lasted 17 episodes, ending primarily due to the suicide of co-star Sammee Tong in October 1964.Marx, Arthur, The Nine Lives Of Mickey Rooney (1986), Stein & Day

He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television|Golden Globe and an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie|Emmy Award for his role in 1981's Bill . Playing opposite Dennis Quaid , Rooney's character 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 TV animated/stop action specials: '' Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (TV special)|Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970), The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974), Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979), and A Miser Brothers' Christmas (2008) — always playing Santa Claus . In 1970, he was approached by television producer Norman Lear to consider taking on the role of Archie Bunker in the upcoming CBS series, All in the Family ''. Like Jackie Gleason before him, Mickey rejected the role, which ultimately went to Carroll O'Connor .

He continued to work on stage and television through the 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the acclaimed stage play Sugar Babies (musical)|Sugar Babies with Ann Miller beginning in 1979. Following this, he toured as Pseudelous in Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum . In the 1990's, he returned to Broadway for the final months of Will Rogers Follies , playing the ghost of Will's father. On television, starred in the short-lived sitcom, One of the Boys (TV series)|One of the Boys , along with 2 unfamiliar young stars, Dana Carvey and Nathan Lane , in 1982. He toured Canada 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 with Eartha Kitt at Madison Square Garden . Kitt was later replaced by Jo Anne Worley . In 1995 he starred with Charlton Heston , Peter Graves and Deborah Winters in the Warren Chaney docudrama America: A Call to Greatness . He also appeared in the documentary '' That's Entertainment& #33; III .

Rooney voiced Mr. Cherrywood in The Care Bears Movie (1985), and starred as the Movie Mason in a Disney Channel Disney Channel Original Movies|Original Movie family film 2000's Phantom of the Megaplex . He had a guest spot on an episode of The Golden Girls as Sophia's boyfriend "Rocko", who claimed to be a bank robber. He voiced himself in the Simpsons episode " Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode)|Radioactive Man " of 1995. In 1996–97, Mickey played Talbut on the TV series, Kleo The Misfit Unicorn produced by Gordon Stanfield Animation (GSA) . He co-starred in Night at the Museum in 2006 with Dick Van Dyke and Ben Stiller .

After starring in one unsuccessful TV series and for turning down an offer on a huge TV series, Rooney finally hit the jackpot, at 70, when he was offering a starring role on The Family Channel's, The Adventures of the Black Stallion , where he reprised his role as Henry Dailey from the film of the same name, eleven years earlier. The show was based on a novel by Walter Farley . For this role, he had to travel all the way to Vancouver . Just like the film itself, the Black Stallion TV series, Rooney became one of the most beloved stars, that the show itself became an immediate hit with teenagers, young adults and people all over the world. The show was also seen in 70 countries. It also lost out to Harry and the Hendersons , when the show was nominated for a Young Artist Award in the "Best Off-Prime Time or Cable Family Series" category.
Also starring on Black Stallion were Docs Keepin Time who played "The Black Stallion", but did not have a voice part in the series, despite appearing in every episode of the series, with an unfamiliar Canadian high school student, a fan of Rooney's films, a voice-over actor, a future acting instructor, and online radio host, Richard Ian Cox , in the role of Henry's teenaged traveler, Alec Ramsay. The on- and off-screen chemistry between Rooney and Cox was an immediate success story of 1990s television. Richard also had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with Mickey's real-life family, when not filming. For its three seasons on air, Rooney was nominated for a Gemini Award in the category of "Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role", but didn't win. By the end of the third season, Black Stallion's ratings were declining, the show was cancelled in 1993, after three seasons and 78 episodes.
In December 2009, he appeared as a guest to a dinner party hosted by David Gest on Come Dine With Me .

Current work

Rooney appeared in television commercials for Garden State Life Insurance Company in 1999, alongside his wife Jan Rooney . In commercials shown in 2007, he can be seen in the background washing imaginary dishes.

In 2003, Rooney and his wife began their association with Rainbow Puppet Productions, providing their voices to the 100th Anniversary production of "Toyland!" an adaptation of Victor Herbert 's Babes in Toyland (operetta)|Babes in Toyland . He created the voice for the Master Toymaker while Jan provided the voice for Mother Goose. Since that time, they have created voices for additional Rainbow Puppet Productions including "Pirate Party" which also features vocal performances by Carol Channing . Both productions continue to tour theaters across the country.

He continues to work in film and tours with his wife in a multi-media live stage production called ''Let's Put On a Show! His first performance of this show after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack was in Bend, Oregon , in which Mickey and Jan requested the show begin with the singing of the " Star Spangled Banner " by Jan offstage with only the American Flag visible on stage.

On May 26, 2007, he was grand marshal at the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival. Rooney made his British pantomime debut, playing Baron Hardup in Cinderella , at the Sunderland Empire Theatre over the 2007 Christmas period,, December 7, 2007 a role he reprised in 2009 at the Milton Keynes theatre.

In 2008, Rooney starred as Chief, a wise old ranch owner, in the independent family feature film Lost Stallions: The Journey Home , marking a return to starring in equestrian-themed productions for the first time since the 1990s TV show Adventures of the Black Stallion . Even though they've acted together before, Lost Stallions: The Journey Home is the sole film to date in which he and Jan portrayed a married couple on screen.

Rooney made a brief cameo appearance in The Muppets (film)|The Muppets , making his career span 10 decades.

Personal life

Rooney has been married 8 times. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was often the subject of comedians' jokes for his alleged inability to stay married. He is currently married to Jan Rooney|Jan Chamberlin . He has 9 children from his eight marriages, as well as nineteen grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
In 1942, he married Star system (filmmaking)|Hollywood starlet Ava Gardner , but the two were divorced well before she became a star in her own right. While stationed in the military in Alabama in 1944, Rooney met and married local beauty queen B. J. Baker|Betty Jane Phillips . This marriage ended in divorce after he returned from Europe at the end of World War II. His subsequent marriages to Martha Vickers (1949) and Elaine Devry|Elaine Mahnken (1952) were also short-lived and ended in divorce. In 1958, Rooney married Barbara Ann Thomason, but tragedy struck when she was murdered in 1966. Falling into Major depressive disorder|deep depression , he married Barbara's friend, Marge Lane, who helped him take care of his young children. The marriage lasted only 100 days. He was married to Carolyn Hockett from 1969 to 1974, but financial instability ended the relationship. Finally, in 1978, Rooney married Jan Chamberlin, his 8th wife. , they live in Westlake Village, California . Mickey is an outspoken advocates for veterans and senior rights.

Rooney's oldest child Mickey Rooney, Jr. is a Born again (Christianity)|born-again Christian . He and several of Rooney's other eight children have worked at various times in show business. One of them, actor Tim Rooney , died in 2006 on Mickey's birthday at the age of 59.

On September 23, 2010, Rooney celebrated his 90th birthday at Feinstein's at Loews Hotels|Loews Regency in the Upper East Side of New York City. Among the people who were attending the party were: Donald Trump , Regis Philbin , Nathan Lane and Tony Bennett . In December 2010 he was honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month.

On February 16, 2011, Rooney was granted a temporary restraining order against Christopher Aber. Christopher is the oldest of Jan Rooney's two sons from a previous marriage. Many press releases state that the restraining order included Mickey Rooney, Jan's son Mark Rooney, who is currently Mickey's caregiver, and wife Jan Rooney. Public record states that the restraining order in fact included Mickey Rooney, Mark Rooney and Mark's wife Charlene Rooney. Jan Rooney was not included in the restraining order and has publicly denied any abuse in defense of her son Christopher. On March 2, 2011 Rooney appeared before a special US Senate committee that was considering legislation to curb elder abuse . Rooney stated that he was financially abused by unnamed family members. On March 27, 2011, all of Rooney's finances were permanently handed over to lawyers over the claim of missing money.

In April 2011, the temporary restraining order that Rooney was previously granted was replaced by a confidential settlement between Rooney and his stepson. Christopher Aber and Jan Rooney have denied all the allegations. by Carole Fleck and Talia Schmidt. AARP Bulletin, March 2, 2011

Marriages

Name !! Years !! Children
Ava Gardner	1942–1943
Betty Jane Rase	1944–1949	Mickey Rooney, Jr. (born July 3, 1945)
Betty Jane Rase	1944–1949	Tim Rooney (January 4, 1947 – September 23, 2006)
Martha Vickers	1949–1951	Theodore Michael Rooney (born April 13, 1950)
Elaine Devry	1952–1958
Barbara Ann Thomason (akas: Tara Thomas, 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	1969–1975	Jimmy Rooney (adopted from Carolyn's previous marriage) (born 1966)
Carolyn Hockett	1969–1975	Jonelle Rooney (born January 11, 1970)
Jan Chamberlin	1978–present

Filmography

Selected films

This is a selected list of Rooney's full-length films, both theatrical and made for television.

Year !! Title
1927	Orchids and Ermine
1932	The Beast of the City
	'' 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
	I Like It That Way
	Manhattan Melodrama
	Love Birds
	Half a Sinner
	Hide-Out
	Chained
	Blind Date
	Death on the Diamond
1935	The County Chairman
	Reckless
	The Healer
	A Midsummer Night's Dream
	Rendezvous
	Ah, Wilderness!
1936	Riffraff
	Little Lord Fauntleroy
	Down the Stretch
	The Devil is a Sissy
1937	A Family Affair
	Captains Courageous
	Slave Ship
	Hoosier Schoolboy
	Live, Love and Learn
	'' Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
	'' You're Only Young Once
1938	Love Is a Headache
	''Judge Hardy's Children
	Hold That Kiss
	Lord Jeff
	Love Finds Andy Hardy
	Boys Town
	Stablemates
	Out West with the Hardys
1939	Huckleberry Finn (1939 film)>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
	The Hardys Ride High
	Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
	Babes in Arms
	Judge Hardy and Son
1940	Young Tom Edison
	Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
	Strike Up the Band
1941	'' Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
	Men of Boys Town
	Life Begins for Andy Hardy
	Babes on Broadway
1942	The Courtship of Andy Hardy
	A Yank at Eton
	''Andy Hardy's Double Life

Year !! Title
1943	The Human Comedy
	Thousands Cheer
	Girl Crazy
1944	'' Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944	National Velvet
1946	Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1947	Killer McCoy
1948	Summer Holiday
1948	Words and Music
1949	The Big Wheel
1950	Quicksand (1950 film)>Quicksand
	The Fireball
	''He's a Cockeyed Wonder
1951	My Outlaw Brother
1951	The Strip
1952	Sound Off
1953	Off Limits
	All Ashore
	A Slight Case of Larceny
1954	Drive a Crooked Road
1954	The Atomic Kid
1955	The Bridges at Toko-Ri
1955	''The Twinkle in God's Eye
1956	The Bold and the Brave
	Francis in the Haunted House
	Magnificent Roughnecks
1957	Operation Mad Ball
1957	Baby Face Nelson (film)>Baby Face Nelson
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
	'' Everything's Ducky
1962	Requiem for a Heavyweight
1963	'' It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1964	The Secret Invasion
1965	Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
1965	How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1966	The Devil In Love
1966	Ambush Bay
1968	Skidoo
1969	The Extraordinary Seaman
	The Comic
	80 Steps to Jonah
1970	Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970	Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (voice)
1971	Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971	The Manipulator
1972	Evil Roy Slade
	Richard
	Pulp (1972 film)>Pulp
1973	The Godmothers
1974	Thunder County
	''Rachel's Man
	Journey Back to Oz (voice)
	The Year Without a Santa Claus (voice)
1975	Ace of Hearts
1975	From Hong Kong with Love
1976	Find the Lady

Year !! Title
1977	The Domino Principle
1977	'' Pete's Dragon
1978	The Magic of Lassie
1979	The Black Stallion
	Arabian Adventure
	'' Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (voice)
1981	The Fox and the Hound (voice)
1981	Odyssey of the Pacific
1982	The Emperor of Peru
1983	Bill: On His Own
1984	It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
1985	The Care Bears Movie (voice)
1986	Lightning, the White Stallion
1988	Bluegrass
1989	Erik the Viking
1989	Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
1990	Home For Christmas
1991	My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
1992	The Milky Life
	Sweet Justice
	Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker
	Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland
	Maximum Force
1993	The Legend of Wolf Mountain
1994	Revenge of the Red Baron
	The Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
	Making Waves
1995	America: A Call to Greatness
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
1999	Holy Hollywood
1999	The First of May
2000	Internet Love
2000	Phantom of the Megaplex
2001	'' Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (voice)
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
2007	The Yesterday Pool
2007	Bamboo Shark
2008	Lost Stallions: The Journey Home
2008	'' A Miser Brothers' Christmas (voice)
2010	Gerald
2011	The Muppets (film)>The Muppets

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 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 Menagerie
	''Mickey's Last Chance
	''Mickey's Brown Derby
	'' Mickey's Northwest Mounted
	''Mickey's Initiation
	''Mickey's Midnite Follies
	'' Mickey's Surprise
	'' Mickey's Mix-Up
	''Mickey's Big Moment
	''Mickey's Strategy

Year !! Title
1930	'' Mickey's Champs
	'' Mickey's Explorers
	''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
1932	''Mickey's Busy Day
	''Mickey's Travels
	''Mickey's Holiday
	''Mickey's Big Business
	''Mickey's Golden Rule
	''Mickey's Charity

Year !! Title
1933	''Mickey's Ape Man
	''Mickey's Race
	''Mickey's Big Broadcast
	'' Mickey's Disguises
	'' Mickey's Touchdown
	'' Mickey's Tent Show
	'' Mickey's Covered Wagon
1934	'' Mickey's Minstrels
	'' Mickey's Rescue
	'' Mickey's Medicine Man
1935	Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1937	Cinema Circus
1938	''Andy Hardy's Dilemma
1940	Rodeo Dough
1941	Meet the Stars #4 : Variety Reel #2
1943	Show Business at War
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

Rooney has made countless appearances in TV sitcoms and television films. 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 : Hey Mulligan
1957	The Comedian (on Playhouse 90 )
1964–1965	Mickey
1981	Bill (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

Awards

Year !! Award !! Category !! Nominated Work / Honor !! Result
1938
1939
1943
1956
1957
1957
1958
1960
	Star of Television
	Star of Radio
1962
1964
1980
1981
1981
1983
1983
1991
1991
1996
2004

Copyright Citations

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1. Gene Autry 2. Kathryn Grayson 3. The Rat Pack 4. Dillinger 5. Benny Hill 6. Bernadette Peters 7. Dan Byrd 8. Dana Carvey 9. Jeff Dunham 10. Kristin Chenoweth 11. Marilyn Monroe 12. Rachel Sweet 13. Will Rogers Follies 14. Rat Pack 15. Nathan Lane 16. Mickey Mouse Club

Undetermined Music Artists