Mickey Rooney
Audiences rate Mickey Rooney’s films higher than 92% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
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The ThumbScore for Mickey Rooney (79.8%) is the average audience approval rating across 13 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Mickey's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, producer, and radio personality. In a career spanning nine decades and continuing until shortly before his death, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent film era. At the height of a career that was marked by declines and comebacks, Rooney performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomized American family values. A versatile performer, he became a celebrated character actor later in his career. Laurence Olivier once said he considered Rooney "the best there has ever been". Clarence Brown, who directed him in two of his earliest dramatic roles, National Velvet and The Human Comedy, said he was "the closest thing to a genius I ever worked with".
Rooney first performed in vaudeville as a child and made his film debut at the age of six. At 14, he played Puck in the play and later the 1935 film adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Critic David Thomson hailed his performance as "one of the cinema's most arresting pieces of magic". In 1938, he co-starred in Boys Town. At 19, he was the first teenager to be nominated for an Oscar for his leading role in Babes in Arms, and he was awarded a special Academy Juvenile Award in 1939. At the peak of his career between the ages of 15 and 25, he made 43 films, which made him one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most consistently successful actors and a favorite of MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer.
Born 1920-09-23 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. Died 2014-04-06.
Biography from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA).
On ThumbScore, Mickey Rooney appears in 13 films with an average audience score of 79.8%, most frequently in the Family genre.
Sources: TMDB
