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Mickey Rooney in 1945. Mickey Rooney (1920–2014) was an American actor of stage, film, television, Broadway, radio, and vaudeville.Beginning as a child actor, his career extended over 88 years, making him one of the most enduring performers in show business history.
Bill is a 1981 American made-for-television biographical drama film starring Mickey Rooney and Dennis Quaid based on the life of Bill Sackter. [1] [2] The film was broadcast on CBS on December 22, 1981. [3] A sequel, Bill: On His Own, was released in 1983. [4]
Rooney was born Ninnian Joseph Yule, Jr., [7] in Brooklyn, New York on September 23, 1920, the only child of Nellie W. Carter and Joe Yule. [8] His mother was an American former chorus girl and burlesque performer from Kansas City, Missouri, while his father was a Scottish-born vaudevillian, who had emigrated to New York from Glasgow with his family at the age of three months. [4]
Quicksand is a 1950 American film noir that stars Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre and portrays a garage mechanic's descent into crime. It was directed by Irving Pichel shortly before he was included in the Hollywood blacklist (which was instituted by the House Un-American Activities Committee to block screenwriters with suspected Communist affiliation from obtaining employment).
Inside, Mickey Rooney is dressing up in front of the mirror, when Donald asks him for his autograph. Rooney writes his name in Donald's book and makes it disappear and reappear with a magic trick. Donald, who is not amused, tries to impress Rooney by doing a similar trick with an egg. However, the egg is obviously hidden under Donald's hat and ...
Mickey is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 1964 to January 1965. Created and produced by Bob Fisher and Arthur Marx, the series starred Mickey Rooney , and was filmed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.
The Mickey Rooney Show was created by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine. [1] Rooney and Maurice Duke were executive producers. [2] Joseph Santley was the producer. [5] Leslie Martinson and Quine were among the directors. Harry Clork, Duke, Edwards, Benedict Freedman, Sumner Long, John Fenton Murray, and Quine were among the writers.
The late 1980s brought the arrival of the Mickey McGuire shorts to home video for the first time. United American Video and Summit Media Co. released three volumes of the Columbia Mickey McGuire shorts. Mickey Rooney introduced each short. In 2001, ten of the sound shorts made their way to home video on five VHS tapes through Virgil Films and Ent.