Mickey Rooney filmography

Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor of 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. He appeared in more than 300 films and was one of the last surviving stars of the silent film era, having one of the longest careers in the medium's history.[1]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1927 Orchids and Ermine Mickey McGuire
1932 The Beast of the City Mickey Fitzpatrick
1932 Sin's Pay Day Chubby Dennis
1932 High Speed Buddy Whipple
1932 Fast Companions Midge
1932 My Pal, the King King Charles V
1932 Officer Thirteen Buddy Malone
1933 The Big Cage Jimmy O'Hara
1933 The Life of Jimmy Dolan Freckles Alternate title: The Kid's Last Fight
1933 The Big Chance Arthur Wilson
1933 Broadway to Hollywood Ted Hackett III as a Child
1933 The Chief Willie
1933 The World Changes Otto Peterson, as a Child
1934 Beloved Tommy
1934 The Lost Jungle Mickey
1934 I Like It That Way Messenger Boy
1934 Manhattan Melodrama Blackie as a Boy
1934 Love Birds Gladwyn Tootle
1934 Half a Sinner Willie Clark
1934 Hide-Out William 'Willie' Miller
1934 Chained Boy Shipboard Swimmer
1934 Blind Date Freddie
1934 Death on the Diamond Mickey
1935 The County Chairman Freckles
1935 Reckless Eddie Alternate titles: Born Reckless and Hard to Handle
1935 The Healer Jimmy Alternate title: Little Pal
1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream Puck or Robin Goodfellow, a Fairy
1935 Rendezvous Country Boy
1935 Ah, Wilderness! Tommy
1936 Riffraff Jimmy
1936 Little Lord Fauntleroy Dick
1936 Down the Stretch 'Snapper' Sinclair
1936 The Devil Is a Sissy James 'Gig' Stevens
1937 A Family Affair Andy Hardy
1937 Captains Courageous Dan Troop
1937 Slave Ship Swifty
1937 Hoosier Schoolboy Shockey Carter
1937 Live, Love and Learn Jerry Crump
1937 Thoroughbreds Don't Cry Timmie Donovan
1937 You're Only Young Once Andy Hardy
1938 Love Is a Headache Mike O'Toole
1938 Judge Hardy's Children Andy Hardy
1938 Hold That Kiss Chick Evans
1938 Lord Jeff Terry O'Mulvaney
1938 Love Finds Andy Hardy Andy Hardy
1938 Boys Town Whitey Marsh
1938 Stablemates Mickey
1938 Out West with the Hardys Andy Hardy
1939 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huckleberry Finn
1939 The Hardys Ride High Andy Hardy
1939 Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever Andy Hardy
1939 Babes in Arms Mickey Moran
1939 Judge Hardy and Son Andy Hardy
1940 Young Tom Edison Thomas Edison
1940 Andy Hardy Meets Debutante Andy Hardy
1940 Strike Up the Band Jimmy Connors
1941 Andy Hardy's Private Secretary Andy Hardy
1941 Men of Boys Town Whitey Marsh
1941 Life Begins for Andy Hardy Andy Hardy
1941 Babes on Broadway Tommy Williams
1942 The Courtship of Andy Hardy Andy Hardy
1942 A Yank at Eton Timothy Dennis
1942 Andy Hardy's Double Life Andy Hardy
1943 The Human Comedy Homer Macauley
1943 Thousands Cheer Emcee at the Show
1943 Girl Crazy Daniel "Danny" Churchill, Jr.
1944 Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble Andrew "Andy" Hardy
1944 National Velvet Michael "Mi" Taylor
1946 Love Laughs at Andy Hardy Andrew "Andy" Hardy
1947 Killer McCoy Tommy McCoy / Killer McCoy
1948 Summer Holiday Richard Miller
1948 Words and Music Lorenz Hart
1949 The Big Wheel William "Billy" Coy
1950 Quicksand Daniel "Dan"
1950 The Fireball Jonathan "Johnny" Casar
1950 He's a Cockeyed Wonder Frederick "Freddie" Frisby
1951 My Outlaw Brother J. Dennis 'Denny' O'Moore
1951 The Strip Stanley Maxton
1952 Sound Off Michael "Mike" Donnelly
1953 Off Limits Herbert Tuttle
1953 All Ashore Francis 'Moby' Dickerson
1953 A Slight Case of Larceny Augustus 'Geechy' Cheevers
1954 Drive a Crooked Road Edward "Eddie" Shannon
1954 The Atomic Kid Barnaby 'Blix' Waterberry
1955 The Bridges at Toko-Ri Michael "Mike" Forney
1955 The Twinkle in God's Eye Rev. William Macklin II
1956 The Bold and the Brave Dooley
1956 Francis in the Haunted House David Prescott
1956 Magnificent Roughnecks Francis "Frank" Sommers
1957 Operation Mad Ball MSgt. Yancy Skibo
1957 Baby Face Nelson Lester M. 'Baby Face Nelson' Gillis
1958 A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed Gustav "Gus" Harris
1958 Andy Hardy Comes Home Andrew "Andy" Hardy
1959 The Big Operator Joseph "Little Joe" Braun Alternate title: Anatomy of the Syndicate
1959 The Last Mile 'Killer' Mears
1960 Platinum High School Steven Conway
1960 The Private Lives of Adam and Eve Nicholas "Nick" Lewis / The Devil
1961 The Big Bankroll Jonathan "Johnny" Burke Alternate title: King of the Roaring 20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein
1961 Breakfast at Tiffany's I.Y. Yunioshi
1961 Everything's Ducky Kermit 'Beetle' McKay
1962 Requiem for a Heavyweight Army
1963 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World "Dingy" Bell
1964 The Secret Invasion Terence Scanlon
1965 Twenty-Four Hours to Kill Norman Jones
1965 How to Stuff a Wild Bikini Peachy Keane
1966 The Devil in Love Adramalek
1966 Ambush Bay Sgt. Ernest Wartell
1968 Skidoo George 'Blue Chips' Packard
1969 The Extraordinary Seaman Cook 3 / C W. J. Oglethorpe
1969 The Comic Martin 'Cockeye' Van Buren
1969 80 Steps to Jonah Wilfred Bashford
1970 The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County Indian Tom
1970 Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town Kris Kringle\Santa Claus (voice)
1971 Mooch Goes to Hollywood Himself
1971 The Manipulator B.J. Lang
1972 Evil Roy Slade Nelson Stool
1972 Richard Guardian Angel
1972 Pulp Preston Gilbert
1973 The Godmothers Rocky Mastrasso
1974 Thunder County Gas Station Attendant
1974 Journey Back to Oz Scarecrow (voice)
1974 The Year Without a Santa Claus Santa Claus (voice)
1975 Rachel's Man Laban
1975 Ace of Hearts Papa Joe
1975 From Hong Kong with Love Marty Alternate title: Bons Baisers de Hong Kong
1976 Find the Lady Trigger
1977 The Domino Principle Spiventa
1977 Pete's Dragon Lampie
1978 The Magic of Lassie Gus
1979 The Black Stallion Henry Dailey
1979 Arabian Adventure Daad El Shur
1979 Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July Santa Claus (voice)
1981 The Fox and the Hound Adult Tod (voice)
1981 Bill Bill Sackter
1982 Odyssey of the Pacific The Railway Engineer Alternate titles: The Emperor of Peru and Treasure Train
1983 Bill: On His Own Bill Sackter
1984 It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Mike Halligan
1985 The Care Bears Movie Mr. Cherrywood (voice)
1986 Lightning, the White Stallion Barney Ingram
1986 Little Spies Jimmie The Hermit [2]
1988 Bluegrass John Paul Jones
1989 Erik the Viking Erik's Grandfather
1989 Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland Flip (voice)
1990 Home For Christmas Elmer
1991 My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys Junion
1991 The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw The Director
1992 Sweet Justice Zeke
1992 Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker Joe Petto
1992 The Magic Voyage Narrator (voice)
1992 Maximum Force Chief of Police
1993 The Legend of Wolf Mountain Pat Jensen
1993 The Milky Life Barry Reilly
1994 Revenge of the Red Baron Grandpa Spencer
1994 The Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart O.B. Taggart
1994 Making Waves Gabriel
1997 Killing Midnight Professor Mort Sang
1998 The Face on the Barroom Floor
1998 Animals and the Tollkeeper Tollkeeper
1998 Michael Kael vs. the World News Company Griffith
1998 The Snow Queen Ol Dreamy
1998 Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights Sage
1998 Babe: Pig in the City Fugly Floom
1999 Holy Hollywood
1999 The First of May Boss Ed
2000 Internet Love
2000 Phantom of the Megaplex Movie Mason
2001 Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure Sparkey (voice) Direct-to-video film
2002 Topa Topa Bluffs Prospector
2003 Paradise Simon / Henry Sr.
2005 Strike the Tent David McCord
2005 The Happy Elf Santa (voice)
2006 The Thirsting Savy
2006 To Kill a Mockumentary Max
2006 Night at the Museum Gus
2007 The Yesterday Pool Trobadar
2007 Bamboo Shark Brooks
2007 A Christmas Too Many Grandpa Direct-to-video film
2008 Lost Stallions: The Journey Home Chief
2008 A Miser Brothers' Christmas Santa Claus (voice)
2009 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Gus Deleted scene only
2009 Saddle Up with Dick Wrangler & Injun Joe Owen Blumenkrantz
2010 Gerald The Doctor
2010 Now Here Swifty
2011 Night Club Jerry Sherman
2011 The Muppets Elderly Smalltown Resident
2012 Last Will and Embezzlement Himself
2012 Driving Me Crazy Mr. Cohen
2012 The Voices from Beyond Johnny O'Hara
2012 The Woods Lester
2014 Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Gus Released eight months after Rooney's death, the credits contain 'In loving memory of Mickey Rooney'.
2015 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Mr. Louis Rooney's last performance in a film

Short subjects

Box-office ranking

For a number of years, film exhibitors regularly voted Rooney as one of the top money making stars in the country in the annual Quigley Poll:[3]

Television

Rooney made countless appearances in TV sitcoms and television films. He also lent his voice to many animation films. Only his most important work is listed in this section.

Year(s) Title Role Notes
1954–55 The Mickey Rooney Show Mickey Mulligan Lead role (33 episodes)
1957 Playhouse 90 Sammy Hogart "The Comedian"; lead role
1959 Wagon Train Samuel T. Evans Episode: "The Greenhorn Story"
1960 Wagon Train Samuel T. Evans Episode: "Wagons Ho!"
1960 General Electric Theater Al Roberts Episode: "The Money Driver"
1963 The Twilight Zone Grady Episode: "The Last Night of a Jockey"
1964 Rawhide Pan Macropolous Episode: "Incident of the Odyssey"
1964 Combat Harry White Episode: "Silver Service"
1964–65 Mickey Mickey Grady Lead role (17 episodes)
1972 Night Gallery August Kolodney Episode: "Rare Objects"
1977 A Year at the Top Uncle Mickey Durbin Episode: "Pilot"
1979 The Wonderful World of Disney Old Bailey Episodes: "Donovan's Kid" Parts 1 & 2
1982 One of the Boys Oliver Nugent Lead role (13 episodes)
1982 The Love Boat Angelarum Dominicus Episode: "The Christmas Presence"
1986 The Disney Sunday Movie James Turner Episode: "Little Spies"
1988 The Golden Girls Rocco Episode: "Larceny and Old Lace"
1990–93 The Adventures of the Black Stallion Henry Dailey Main role (78 episodes)
1993 Murder, She Wrote Matt Cleveland Episode: "Bloodlines"
1994 Full House Mr. Dreghorn Episode: "Arrest Ye Merry Gentlemen "
1995 The Simpsons Himself (voice) Episode: "Radioactive Man"
1996 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Harold Lang Episode: "A Shaolin Treasure"
2000 Phantom of the Megaplex Movie Mason
2002–06 Kleo the Misfit Unicorn Talbut Main role (26 episodes)
2003 GodRocks! Coach Bullseye Episode: "Splatball Square-Off"
2011 Eagleheart Himself Episode: "Once in a Wattle"
2015 American Dad! Short Producer Episode: "A Star Is Reborn" (Last TV Appearance)

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." 		Honored
1939 Academy Award Best Actor in a Leading Role Babes in Arms Nominated
1943 Academy Award Best Actor in a Leading Role The Human Comedy Nominated
1956 Academy Award Best Actor in a Supporting Role The Bold and the Brave Nominated
1957 Emmy Award Best Single Performance in a Leading or Supporting Role "The Comedian", episode of Playhouse 90 Nominated
1957 Laurel Award Top Male Action Star Baby Face Nelson 3rd Place
1958 Emmy Award Best Single Performance in a Leading or Supporting Role Alcoa Theatre: Eddie Nominated
1960 Hollywood Walk of Fame Star of Motion Picture Star at 1718 Vine Street Honored
Star of Television Star at 6372 Hollywood Boulevard Honored
Star of Radio Star at 6541 Hollywood Boulevard Honored
1961 Emmy Award Best Single Performance in a Leading or Supporting Role "Somebody's Waiting", episode of The Dick Powell Show Nominated
1962 Laurel Award Top Male Supporting Performance Requiem for a Heavyweight Nominated
1964 Golden Globe Best TV Star – Male Mickey Won
1980 Academy Award Best Actor in a Supporting Role The Black Stallion Nominated
1980 Tony Award Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical Sugar Babies Nominated
1980 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actor in a Musical Sugar Babies Nominated
1981 Emmy Award Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Special Bill Won
1981 Golden Globe Best Actor in a TV Mini-Series or Motion Picture Bill Won
1983 Academy Award Academy Honorary Award "In recognition of his 50 years of versatility in a variety of memorable film performances." Honored
1983 Emmy Award Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special Bill: On His Own Nominated
1991 Gemini Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role The Adventures of the Black Stallion Nominated
1991 Young Artist Award Former Child Star Award For lifetime achievement as a child star
(Subsequently renamed "The Mickey Rooney Award") 		Honored
1996 Giffoni Film Festival François Truffaut Award Honored
2004 Pocono Mountains Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award Honored

In 1996, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Mickey Rooney, an enduring star", The Boston Globe, April 7, 2014
  2. ↑ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/466032/Little-Spies/
  3. ↑ Top Ten Money Making Stars Archived 2014-12-21 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "Bing Crosby America's Screen Favourite.". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 24 March 1945. p. 8 Supplement: The Argus Week-end Magazine. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Palm Springs Walk of Stars by date dedicated" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-13. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
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