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Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney was an American actor. In a career spanning nearly nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era. He was the top box-office attraction from 1939 to 1941, and one of the best-paid actors of that era. At the height of a career ultimately marked by declines and comebacks, Rooney performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series…
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Born 23 September 1920 · Died 6 April 2014 · Q104081
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2025· 2 entries
Los Angeles Times: 11 years after Mickey Rooney’s death, prized memorabilia from his estate will be auctioned
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2022· 1 entry
Yahoo: Mickey Rooney Jr., Musician, Actor and First Child of a Screen Legend, Dies at 77
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2015· 2 entries
The Guardian: Mickey Rooney's will approved after children drop objections
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The Guardian: Mickey Rooney honoured during Oscars ceremony
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2014· 7 entries
The Guardian: Mickey Rooney's widow to contest will leaving $18,000 estate to stepson
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The Guardian: Mickey Rooney cuts family out of will
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The Guardian: Mickey Rooney – a career in clips
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The Guardian: Mickey Rooney: baby-faced, dangerous and irresistibly anarchic
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The Guardian: Mickey Rooney obituary
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Died 2014-04-06.
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insider.si.edu: Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
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2011· 6 entries
The Guardian: Mickey Rooney and Ernest Borgnine set for Night Club appearance
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Rooney appeared before a special U
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Rooney was granted a temporary restraining order against his stepson Christopher Aber and Aber's wife Christina, and they were ordered to stay 100 yards from Rooney, his stepson Mark Rooney, and Mark's wife Charlene
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Rooney made a cameo appearance in The Muppets, and in 2014, at age 93, six weeks before his death, he reprised his role as Gus in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, which was dedicated to Robin Williams, who also d
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In 2011, all of Rooney's finances were permanently handed over to a conservator, who called Rooney "completely competent".
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All of Rooney's finances were permanently handed over to a conservator, who called Rooney "completely competent"
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2009· 3 entries
The Guardian: Mickey Rooney: 'Why retire? Inspire'
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The Guardian: Video: Mickey Rooney on marrying Ava Gardner, love and addiction
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In a scene that was deleted from the final film
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2008· 1 entry
And at the Milton Keynes theater in 2009
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2007· 3 entries
The Guardian: Portrait of the artist: Mickey Rooney, actor
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The Guardian: Q&A: Mickey Rooney
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Rooney was grand marshal at the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival
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2006· 1 entry
Rooney played Gus in Night at the Museum
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2005· 1 entry
Through 2011 in a musical revue called Let's Put on a Show
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (2004).
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Let’s Put on a Show”.
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2000· 1 entry
Starred in the Disney Channel original movie Phantom of the Megaplex
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1996· 1 entry
And described himself as "broke" in 2005
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1995· 2 entries
Appeared as himself on The Simpsons episode "Radioactive Man"
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Released album “Mickey & Judy: The Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney Collection”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Go Ahead and Laff”.
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1983).
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave Rooney their Academy Honorary Award for his lifetime of achievement
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1982· 4 entries
Awarded Emmy Award (1982).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Bill (1982).
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Starred in the NBC sitcom One of the Boys, along with two unfamiliar young stars, Dana Carvey and Nathan Lane; it ran for 13 episodes
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And an Emmy Award in the same year for the title role in a television movie Bill and was awarded the Academy Honorary Award in 1982
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1981· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for Bill (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Theatre World Special Award (1980).
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1979· 2 entries
To rave reviews, and this time he did not throw success away
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When Rooney made his Broadway debut in the acclaimed stage play Sugar Babies, a musical revue tribute to the burlesque era co-starring former MGM dancing star Ann Miller
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1978· 1 entry
Married his eighth and final wife, Jan Chamberlin
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1970· 1 entry
Wanted Rooney for the lead role of Archie Bunker
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1966· 2 entries
Rooney was working on the film Ambush Bay in the Philippines when his wife Barbara Ann Thomason—a former model and aspiring actress who had won 17 straight beauty contests in Southern California—was found dead in her bed
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By stuntman and actor Milos Milos (at the time bodyguard for French actor Alain Delon) who then shot himself
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1964· 1 entry
Launched another half-hour sitcom, Mickey
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1963· 3 entries
Won Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Series for Mickey (1963).
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Entered CBS's The Twilight Zone, giving a one-man performance in the episode "The Last Night of a Jockey" (1963)
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In 'The Hunt' for Suspense Theater, he played the sadistic sheriff hunting the young surfer played by James Caan
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1962· 2 entries
Although he had earned $12 million by that point, his debts and multiple divorces had forced him into filing for bankruptcy
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Was cast as himself in the episode "The Top Banana" of the CBS sitcom, Pete and Gladys, starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams
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1961· 2 entries
Guest-starred in the 13-week James Franciscus adventure–drama CBS television series The Investigators
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Rooney appeared on television's What's My Line
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1960· 2 entries
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960).
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Rooney directed and starred in The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, an ambitious comedy known for its multiple flashbacks and many cameos
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1958· 2 entries
Rooney joined Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in hosting an episode of NBC's short-lived Club Oasis comedy and variety show
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Rooney married model and actress Barbara Ann Thomason (stage name Carolyn Mitchell); they had four children
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1957· 2 entries
For The Bold and the Brave, and 1980 for The Black Stallion
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And as himself in a 1960 revue called The Musical Revue of 1959, based on the 1929 film The Hollywood Revue of 1929
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1951· 1 entry
Made his directorial debut with My True Story, starring Helen Walker
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1950· 1 entry
The only job he could get was touring Southern states with the Hadacol Caravan", promoting a patent medicine that was later forced off the market
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1949· 3 entries
Produced one son, but ended in divorce in 1951
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Variety reported a renegotiation of Rooney's deal with MGM
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And 1950 (repeated on Mutual during 1952)
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1948· 1 entry
Which paired him for the last time with Garland on film (he appeared with her on one episode as a guest on The Judy Garland Show)
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1945· 1 entry
Was too old for juvenile roles, but too short at 5 ft 2 in (157 cm) for most adult roles, and was unable to gain as many starring roles
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1944· 2 entries
Rooney met and married Betty Jane Phillips, who later became a singer under the name B
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Released album “Girl Crazy”.
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1942· 1 entry
Married his first wife, actress Ava Gardner, who at that time was still an obscure 20-year-old starlet
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1940· 1 entry
Timed to coincide with the release of Young Tom Edison; the cover story began:
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1939· 4 entries
Awarded Academy Juvenile Award (1939).
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Was not Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, or Tyrone Power, but a rope-haired, kazoo-voiced kid with a comic-strip face, who until this week had never appeared in a picture without mugging or overacting it
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Was the biggest box-office draw, followed immediately by Tyrone Power
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For "significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth"
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1938· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Juvenile Award (1938).
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1937· 3 entries
Rooney made his first film alongside Judy Garland with Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
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Rooney was selected to portray Andy Hardy in A Family Affair, which MGM had planned as a B-movie
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Rooney received top billing as Shockey Carter in Hoosier Schoolboy, but his breakthrough role as a dramatic actor came in 1938's Boys Town opposite Spencer Tracy as Father Flanagan, who runs a home for wayward and homele
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1924· 1 entry
And he and his mother moved to Hollywood the following year
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1920· 1 entry
Born 1920-09-23.
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