Mickey Rooney 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 Juvenile Academy Award, an Honorary Academy Award, two Golden Globes 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 91 years actively making films in ten decades, from 1920s to 2010s. For a younger generation of fans, he gained international fame for his leading role as Henry Dailey in The Family Channel's The Adventures of the Black Stallion.

Along with Jean Darling, and Baby Peggy, he is one of the last surviving stars who worked in the silent film era. He is also the last surviving cast member of several films in which he appeared during the 1930s and 1940s.

Early life

Rooney was born Joseph Yule, Jr. in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. His father, Joseph Yule, was from Glasgow, 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.

When he was fourteen 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 a heavy drinker, leaving the family when Joe Jr. was only three. While Joe Sr. was traveling, Joe Jr. and his mother moved from Brooklyn to Kansas City to live with his aunt. While his mother was reading the entertainment newspaper, Nellie was interested in getting Hal Roach to approach her son 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, Colleen Moore, Clark Gable, 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, 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 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 became Mickey McGuire legally in order to trump an attempted copyright lawsuit (if it were 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, compelling the twelve-year-old actor to refrain from calling himself Mickey McGuire on- and offscreen.

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, although Disney always said that he had changed the name from "Mortimer Mouse" to "Mickey 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 made other films in his adolescence, including several more of the McGuire films, and signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934. MGM cast Rooney as the teenage son of a judge in 1937's 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 subsequent 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, Rooney 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 (1939). During an interview in the 1992 documentary film MGM: When the Lion Roars, Rooney describes their friendship:

"Judy and I were so close we could've come from the same womb. We weren't like brothers or sisters but there was no love affair there; there was more than a love affair. It's very, very difficult to explain the depths of our love for each other. It was so special. It was a forever love. Judy, as we speak, has not passed away. She's always with me in every heartbeat of my body."

Rooney's breakthrough-role as a dramatic actor came in 1938's Boys Town opposite Spencer Tracy as Whitey Marsh, which opened shortly before his 18th birthday. Rooney was awarded a special Juvenile Academy Award in 1939 and was named the biggest box-office draw in 1939, 1940 and 1941. A well-known entertainer by the early 1940s, his picture appeared on the cover of the March 18, 1940 issue of Time magazine, timed to coincide with the release of Young Tom Edison; the cover story began:

"Hollywood's No. 1 box office bait in 1939 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. His name (assumed) was Mickey Rooney, and to a large part of the more articulate U. S. cinemaudience, his name was becoming a frequently used synonym for brat."

Rooney, with Garland, was one of many celebrities caricatured in Tex Avery's 1941 Warner Bros. cartoon Hollywood Steps Out. , Rooney is the only surviving entertainer depicted in the cartoon. In 1991, Rooney was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its 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 twenty-one 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 II 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 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 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).

His first television series, The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan (created by Blake Edwards with Rooney as his own producer), appeared on 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, 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, 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 (1979). One of Rooney's more controversial roles came in the highly-acclaimed 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's where he played a stereotyped buck-toothed myopic Japanese neighbor (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.

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. This was a period of professional distress for Rooney; as a childhood friend, director Richard Quine put it: "Let's face it. It wasn't all that easy to find roles for a 5-foot-3 man who'd passed the age of Andy Hardy." In 1962, his debts had forced him into filing for bankruptcy.

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 pinup 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, General Electric Theater, Hennesey, The Dick Powell Theatre, Arrest and Trial, Burke's Law, Combat!, 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 CBS television series The Investigators. In 1962, he was cast as himself in the episode "The Top Banana" of the CBS sitcom, Pete and Gladys, starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams.

In 1963, he entered CBS's The Twilight Zone, giving a one-man performance in the episode "The Last Night of a Jockey". Also in 1963, in 'The Hunt' episode 9, season 1 for Suspense Theater, he played the sadistic sheriff hunting the young surfer played by James Caan. In 1964, he launched another half-hour sitcom, Mickey, on ABC. The story line had "Mickey" operating a resort hotel in southern California. Son Tim Rooney appeared as Rooney's teenaged son on this 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.

He won a Golden Globe and an 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 provided the voices for four Christmas TV animated/stop action specials: 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.

He continued to work on stage and television through the 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the acclaimed stage play 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 1990s, he returned to Broadway for the final months of Will Rogers Follies, playing the ghost of Will's father. On television, he starred in the short-lived sitcom, One of the Boys, along with two 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 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 documentaries That's Entertainment! and That's Entertainment! III, in both films introducing segments paying tribute to Judy Garland.

Rooney voiced Mr. Cherrywood in The Care Bears Movie (1985), and starred as the Movie Mason in a Disney Channel 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" of 1995. In 1996"97, Rooney played Talbut on the TV series, Kleo The Misfit Unicorn. He costarred in Night at the Museum in 2006 with Dick Van Dyke and Ben Stiller; Rooney filmed a cameo with Van Dyke for the 2009 sequel, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, which was cut from the film but included as an extra on the DVD release.

After starring in one unsuccessful TV series and turning down an offer for a huge TV series, Rooney finally hit the jackpot, at 70, when he was offered a starring role on The Family Channel's The Adventures of the Black Stallion, where he reprised his role as Henry Dailey in 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 to Vancouver. Like the show itself, the Black Stallion TV series, Rooney became one of the most beloved stars. The show became an immediate hit with teenagers, young adults and people all over the world, being seen in 70 countries.

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. 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 that 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, 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 acted together before, Lost Stallions: The Journey Home is the sole film to date in which Rooney and Jan portrayed a married couple onscreen.

In December 2009, he appeared as a guest at a dinner-party hosted by David Gest on Come Dine With Me.

Rooney made a brief cameo appearance in The Muppets (2011), making his career span ten decades.

In 2011, Rooney appeared in an episode of Celebrity Ghost Stories, recounting how, during a down period in his career, his deceased father appeared to him one night, telling him not to give up on his career. He claims that the experience bolstered his resolve and soon afterwards his career experienced a resurgence.

Personal life

Rooney has been married eight 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 Chamberlin. In 2013, this eighth marriage reached a milestone for reaching the same span of time from Rooney's first marriage to his last divorce. He has a total of nine children, as well as nineteen grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

In 1942, he married future 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 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 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 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.

Rooney is an outspoken advocate for veterans and senior rights.

On September 23, 2010, Rooney celebrated his 90th birthday at Feinstein's at 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, one of Jan Rooney's two sons from a previous marriage. On March 2, 2011 Rooney appeared before a special U.S. 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.

In May of 2013, Mickey sold his house of many years, separated from his wife Jan Rooney and split the proceeds.

Marriages

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Name	Years	Children
Ava Gardner	1942"1943
Betty Jane Rase	1944"1949	Mickey Rooney, Jr. (born July 3, 1945)
		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)
		Jonelle Rooney (born January 11, 1970)
Jan Chamberlin	1978"present	Separated May 2013

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	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
	National Velvet
1946	Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1947	Killer McCoy
1948	Summer Holiday
	Words and Music
1949	The Big Wheel
1950	Quicksand
	The Fireball
	He's a Cockeyed Wonder
1951	My Outlaw Brother
	The Strip
1952	Sound Off
1953	Off Limits
	All Ashore
	A Slight Case of Larceny
1954	Drive a Crooked Road
	The Atomic Kid
1955	The Bridges at Toko-Ri
	The Twinkle in God's Eye
1956	The Bold and the Brave
	Francis in the Haunted House
	Magnificent Roughnecks
1957	Operation Mad Ball
	Baby Face Nelson
1958	A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
	Andy Hardy Comes Home
1959	The Big Operator
	The Last Mile
1960	Platinum High School
	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
	How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1966	The Devil In Love
	Ambush Bay
1968	Skidoo
1969	The Extraordinary Seaman
	The Comic
	80 Steps to Jonah
1970	Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
	Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (voice)
1971	Mooch Goes to Hollywood
	The Manipulator
1972	Evil Roy Slade
	Richard
	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
	From Hong Kong with Love
1976	Find the Lady

Year	Title
1977	The Domino Principle
	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)
	Bill
1982	The Emperor of Peru/Odyssey of the Pacific
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
	Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (voice)
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
	The Magic Voyage (voice)
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
	The Snow Queen (voice)
	Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights
	Babe: Pig in the City
1999	Holy Hollywood
	The First of May
2000	Internet Love
	Phantom of the Megaplex
2001	Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (voice)
2002	Topa Topa Bluffs
2003	Paradise
2005	Strike the Tent
	A Christmas Too Many
2006	The Thirsting
	To Kill a Mockumentary
	Night at the Museum
2007	The Yesterday Pool
	Bamboo Shark
2008	Lost Stallions: The Journey Home
	A Miser Brothers' Christmas (voice)
2010	Gerald
2011	The Muppets
2012	Last Will and Embezzlement

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"55	The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey Mulligan
1957	The Comedian (on Playhouse 90)
1964	Combat! (episode: "Silver Service")
1964"65	Mickey
1981	Bill (won Emmy, Golden Globe, and Peabody Award for title role)
1982	One of the Boys (canceled after 13 episodes)
1983	Bill: On His Own (sequel to 1981's "Bill" nominated for Emmy)
1990"93	The Adventures of the Black Stallion

Stage work

• 1934: A Midsummer Night's Dream
• 1951:Sailor Beware
• 1963: The Tunnel of Love
• 1965: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• 1967: The Odd Couple
• 1969"70: George M!
• 1971: Three Goats and a Blanket
• 1971: Hide and Seek
• 1971: W.C. (closed on the road)
• 1972"74: See How They Run
• 1973: A Midsummer Night's Dream
• 1974: Show Boat
• 1975: Goodnight Ladies
• 1975: Sugar
• 1976: Alimony
• 1978: Show Boat
• 1979"82, 1983"88: Sugar Babies
• 1986: The Laugh's On Me
• 1987: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• 1989: Two for the Show
• 1990: The Sunshine Boys
• 1991"93: The Will Rogers Follies
• 1993: Lend Me a Tenor
• 1994: The Mind with the Naughty Man
• 1995: Crazy for You
• 1997"99: The Wizard of Oz
• 2000: Hollywood Goes Classical
• 2003: Singular Sensations

Awards and honors

Year	Award	Category	Nominated Work / Honor	Result
1938	Academy Award	Academy Juvenile Award	(With Deanna Durbin) "For their significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth, and as juvenile players setting a high standard of ability and achievement."
1939	Academy Award	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Babes in Arms
1943	Academy Award	Best Actor in a Leading Role	The Human Comedy
1956	Academy Award	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	The Bold and the Brave
1957	Emmy Award	Best Single Performance in a Leading or Supporting Role	"The Comedian", episode of Playhouse 90
1957	Laurel Award	Top Male Action Star	Baby Face Nelson
1958	Emmy Award	Best Single Performance	Alcoa Theatre
1960	Hollywood Walk of Fame	Star of Motion Picture	Star at 1718 Vine Street
		Star of Television	Star at 6372 Hollywood Boulevard
		Star of Radio	Star at 6541 Hollywood Boulevard
1961	Emmy Award	Best Single Performance in a Leading or Supporting Role	"Somebody's Waiting", episode of The Dick Powell Show
1962	Laurel Award	Top Male Supporting Performance	Requiem for a Heavyweight
1964	Golden Globe	Best TV Star " Male	Mickey
1980	Academy Award	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	The Black Stallion
1981	Emmy Award	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Special	Bill
1981	Golden Globe	Best Actor in a TV Mini-Series or Motion Picture	Bill
1983	Academy Award	Academy Honorary Award	"In recognition of his 50 years of versatility in a variety of memorable film performances."
1983	Emmy Award	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Special	Bill: On His Own
1991	Gemini Award	Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role	The Adventures of the Black Stallion
1991	Young Artist Award	Former Child Star Award	For lifetime achievement as a child star (Subsequently renamed "The Mickey Rooney Award")
1996	Giffoni Film Festival	François Truffaut Award	"?
2004	Pocono Mountains Film Festival	Lifetime Achievement Award	"?

In 1996, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.

See also

• List of surviving silent film actors