Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
Biography
Mickey Rooney was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1920 and died in 2014. Over 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 was among the highest-paid actors of that period. He performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films during the 1930s and 1940s.
Occupation
Mickey Rooney is recorded as a vaudeville performer, a estrada artist, a producer, a dub actor, a film actor, a television actor, a novelist, a film producer, a director, a radio personality, a voice actor, a film director, a stage actor, a television producer, a musician, a comedian, a singer, a military personnel, a writer, a actor and a screenwriter, born in New York (1920–2014).
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