Biography: life and films
Mickey Rooney is an American actor and producer whose birth name is Ninian Joseph Yule Jr.. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA on 23rd September 1920.His best films as an actor include Tom Buckingham's comedy Not to Be Trusted (1926), Kurt Neumann's My Pal, the King (1932), Clarence Brown's National Velvet (1944), Ralph Nelson's Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) and Roger Steinmann's Paradise (2003), and whose best work as a film director include My True Story (1951) and The Bold and the Brave (1956).
Mickey Rooney has so far appeared in 202 films, directed 3 films and scripted 2 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Albert Herman (22 films), George B. Seitz (14), Walter Lantz (6), Norman Taurog (6), W.S. Van Dyke (4), Richard Quine (4), Kurt Neumann (4), Earl Montgomery (3), Clarence Brown (3), Busby Berkeley (3), Victor Fleming (2), Tay Garnett (2), Stanley Kramer (2), Sam Wood (2), Richard Thorpe (2), Jesse Duffy (2), Howard W. Koch (2), Don Chaffey (2) and Charles F. Haas (2).
His most frequent genres include: comedy (83 films), drama (60), comedy-drama (25), comedy-romance (19), romance (16), Fantasy (12), Animation (12), Thriller (10), War (8), Documentary (8), Western (6), history (4), Biography (4) and Horror (3).
Our average rating for Mickey Rooney over all films is: 2.7
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
Orchids and Ermine (1927) [a]
Fast Companions (1932) [a]
High Speed (1932) [a]
My Pal, the King (1932) [a]
Officer Thirteen (1932) [a]
Sin's Pay Day (1932) [a]
Broadway to Hollywood (1933) [a]
The Big Cage (1933) [a]
The Big Chance (1933) [a]
The Chief (1933) [a]
The World Changes (1933) [a]
Beloved (1934) [a]
Blind Date (1934) [a]
Death on the Diamond (1934) [a]
Half a Sinner (1934) [a]
Hide-Out (1934) [a]
I Like It That Way (1934) [a]
Love Birds (1934) [a]
Manhattan Melodrama (1934) [a]
The Lost Jungle (1934) [a]
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) [a]
Ah, Wilderness! (1935) [a]
Reckless (1935) [a]
The County Chairman (1935) [a]
The Healer (1935) [a]
Down the Stretch (1936) [a]
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) [a]
Riffraff (1936) [a]
The Devil Is a Sissy (1936) [a]
A Family Affair (1937) [a]
Captains Courageous (1937) [a]
Hoosier Schoolboy (1937) [a]
Live, Love and Learn (1937) [a]
Slave Ship (1937) [a]
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937) [a]
You're Only Young Once (1937) [a]
Boys Town (1938) [a]
Hold That Kiss (1938) [a]
Judge Hardy's Children (1938) [a]
Lord Jeff (1938) [a]
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) [a]
Love Is a Headache (1938) [a]
Out West with the Hardys (1938) [a]
Stablemates (1938) [a]
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939) [a]
Babes in Arms (1939) [a]
Judge Hardy and Son (1939) [a]
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939) [a]
The Hardys Ride High (1939) [a]
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940) [a]
Strike Up the Band (1940) [a]
Young Tom Edison (1940) [a]
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941) [a]
Babes on Broadway (1941) [a]
Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941) [a]
Men of Boys Town (1941) [a]
A Yank at Eton (1942) [a]
Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942) [a]
The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942) [a]
Girl Crazy (1943) [a]
The Human Comedy (1943) [a]
Thousands Cheer (1943) [a]
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944) [a]
National Velvet (1944) [a]
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946) [a]
Killer McCoy (1947) [a]
Summer Holiday (1948) [a]
Words and Music (1948) [a]
The Big Wheel (1949) [a]
He's a Cockeyed Wonder (1950) [a]
Quicksand (1950) [a]
The Fireball (1950) [a]
My Outlaw Brother (1951) [a]
My True Story (1951) [d]
The Strip (1951) [a]
Sound Off (1952) [a]
A Slight Case of Larceny (1953) [a]
All Ashore (1953) [a]
Off Limits (1953) [a]
Drive a Crooked Road (1954) [a]
The Atomic Kid (1954) [a]
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) [a]
The Twinkle in God's Eye (1955) [a]
Francis in the Haunted House (1956) [a]
Magnificent Roughnecks (1956) [a]
The Bold and the Brave (1956) [a,d]
Baby Face Nelson (1957) [a]
Operation Mad Ball (1957) [a]
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958) [a]
Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958) [a]
The Big Operator (1959) [a]
The Last Mile (1959) [a]
Platinum High School (1960) [a]
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960) [a,d]
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) [a]
Everything's Ducky (1961) [a]
King of the Roaring 20's - The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961) [a]
Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) [a]
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) [a]
The Secret Invasion (1964) [a]
Inside Daisy Clover (1965) [a]
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill (1965) [a]
Ambush Bay (1966) [a]
L'Arcidiavolo (1966) [a]
Skidoo (1968) [a]
80 Steps to Jonah (1969) [a]
The Comic (1969) [a]
The Extraordinary Seaman (1969) [a]
Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970) [a]
Hollywood Blue (1970) [a]
The Manipulator (1971) [a]
Pulp (1972) [a]
Richard (1972) [a]
The Godmothers (1973) [w]
Journey Back to Oz (1974) [a]
That's Entertainment! (1974) [a]
Thunder County (1974) [a]
Bons baisers de Hong Kong (1975) [a]
Hooray for Hollywood (1975) [a]
Juego sucio en Panamá (1975) [a]
Find the Lady (1976) [a]
It's Showtime (1976) [a]
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) [a]
Pete's Dragon (1977) [a]
The Domino Principle (1977) [a]
The Magic of Lassie (1978) [a]
The Black Stallion (1979) [a]
The Fox and the Hound (1981) [a]
The Emperor of Peru (1982) [a]
The Care Bears Movie (1985) [a]
Lightning, the White Stallion (1986) [a]
Erik the Viking (1989) [a]
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989) [a]
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991) [a]
Die Abenteuer von Pico und Columbus (1992) [a]
La Vida láctea (1992) [a]
Maximum Force (1992) [a]
The Legend of Wolf Mountain (1993) [a]
Liberation (1994) [a]
Making Waves (1994) [a]
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart (1994) [a,w]
Revenge of the Red Baron (1994) [a]
That's Entertainment! III (1994) [a]
Radio Star - die AFN-Story (1995) [a]
Killing Midnight (1997) [a]
Animals with the Tollkeeper (1998) [a]
Babe: Pig in the City (1998) [a]
Michael Kael contre la World News Company (1998) [a]
Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights (1998) [a]
The Face on the Barroom Floor (1998) [a]
Holy Hollywood (1999) [a]
The First of May (1999) [a]
Internet Love (2000) [a]
Topa Topa Bluffs (2002) [a]
Paradise (2003) [a]
Strike the Tent (2005) [a]
Night at the Museum (2006) [a]
Lost Stallions: The Journey Home (2008) [a]
Wreck the Halls (2008) [a]
Bamboo Shark (2009) [a]
Driving Me Crazy (2009) [a]
Gerald (2009) [a]
Now Here (2009) [a]
Saddle Up with Dick Wrangler & Injun Joe (2009) [a]
Night Club (2011) [a]
The Muppets (2011) [a]
The Voices from Beyond (2012) [a]
The Woods (2012) [a]
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