Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney was a little man who enjoyed a big career and a larger-than-life persona. Born into a family of vaudeville performers, he was pushed on stage before he could talk and never let up, appearing in hundreds of movies, TV shows, plays, casinos and gossip columns. He had a hunger for life and work that belied his small stature, marrying eight times, earning and losing millions of dollars on several occasions, and seemingly accepting any invitation to perform, whether it was a dinner theater or the Academy Awards. Outliving most of his Golden Age contemporaries, he carved out a unique place in show business history that spanned generations of fans. And even though his career reached its peak in the 1930s with his onscreen partnership with Judy Garland, he continued to win awards and accolades until his death on April 6, 2014.
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Mickey Rooney
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Holy Hollywood | Grandpa (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Soldier's Stories | Narrator (Voice) | - | 2014 |
48% |
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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Gus (Character) | $113.6M | 2014 |
95% |
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The Muppets | Self | $88.6M | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Now Here | Swifty (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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Lost Stallions: The Journey Home | Chief (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Empire State Building Murders | Mickey Silver (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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A Christmas Too Many | Grandpa (Character) | - | 2007 |
42% |
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Night at the Museum | Gus (Character) | $113.7M | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams | David McCord (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paradise |
Simon/ |
- | 2003 |
45% |
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Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure | Sparky (Voice) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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Phantom of the Megaplex | Movie Mason (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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The First of May | Boss Ed (Character) | - | 1998 |
65% |
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Babe: Pig in the City | Fugly Floom (Character) | $18.3M | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sinbad and the Battle of the Dark Knights | Sage (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Animals and the Tollkeeper | Tollkeeper (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Boys Will Be Boys | Wellington (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Michael Kael Contre la World News Company | Griffith (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Michael Kael vs. the World News Company | Griffith (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Killing Midnight | Professor Mort Sang (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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The Road Home | Father Flanagan (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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The Magic Voyage | Narrator (Voice) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Making Waves | Gabriel (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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Revenge of the Red Baron | Grandpa Spencer (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | O.B. Taggart |
O.B. Taggart (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La Vida Lactea | Barry Reilly (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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Maximum Force | Chief of Police (Character) | - | 1992 |
55% |
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Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland | Flip (Voice) | $1.4M | 1992 |
No Score Yet |
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The Legend of Wolf Mountain | Pat Jensen (Character) | - | 1992 |
33% |
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My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys | Junion (Character) | $3.6M | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker | Joe Petto (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Home for Christmas | Elmer (Character) | - | 1990 |
50% |
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Erik the Viking | Erik's Grandfather (Character) | $656.7K | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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Lightning -- The White Stallion | Barney Ingram (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer | Jack Bergan (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
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Little Spies | James Turner (Character) | - | 1986 |
43% |
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The Care Bears Movie | Mr. Cherrywood (Voice) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear | Mike Halligan (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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Bill: On His Own | Bill Sackter (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Odyssey of the Pacific | The Railway Engineer (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet |
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Bill | Bill Sackter (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Leave 'Em Laughing | Jack Thum (Character) | - | 1981 |
75% |
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The Fox and the Hound | Adult Tod (Voice) | $23.6M | 1981 |
No Score Yet |
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Senior Trip | Self | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Kidnapper, My Love | The Maker (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Arabian Adventure | Daad El Shur (Character) | - | 1979 |
14% |
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Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July | Santa Claus (Voice) | - | 1979 |
91% |
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The Black Stallion | Henry Dailey (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dark Side of Love | The Maker (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet |
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The Magic of Lassie | Gus (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Donovan's Kid | Old Bailey (Character) | - | 1978 |
14% |
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The Domino Principle | Spiventa (Character) | - | 1977 |
56% |
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Pete's Dragon | Lampie (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Find the Lady | Trigger (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Convict Women | Gas Station Attendant (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hooray for Hollywood | Narrator | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | From Hong Kong With Love | Marty (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rachel's Man | Laban (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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Journey Back to Oz | The Scarecrow (Voice) | - | 1974 |
90% |
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The Year Without a Santa Claus | Santa Claus (Voice) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cell Block Girls | Gas Station Attendant (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thunder County | Gas Station Attendant (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Just One More Time | Self | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Godmothers |
Rocky (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 1973 |
No Score Yet |
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Evil Roy Slade | Nelson Stool (Character) | - | 1972 |
77% |
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Pulp | Preston Gilbert (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | B.J. Lang Presents | B.J. Lang (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Killing Affairs | Unknown (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet |
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The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County | Indian Tom (Character) | - | 1970 |
93% |
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Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town | Kris (Voice) | - | 1970 |
67% |
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The Comic | Martin "Cockeye" Van Buren (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 80 Steps to Jonah | Wilfred Bashford (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Extraordinary Seaman |
Cook 3/ |
- | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Devil in Love | Adramalek (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet |
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Ambush Bay | Gunnery Sgt. Ernest Wartell (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 24 Hours to Kill | Norman Jones (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet |
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini | Peachy Keane (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet |
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The Secret Invasion | Terence Scanlon (Character) | - | 1964 |
69% |
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Ding Bell (Character) | - | 1963 |
89% |
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Requiem for a Heavyweight | Army (Character) | - | 1962 |
88% |
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Breakfast at Tiffany's | Mr. Yunioshi (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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King of the Roaring 20's -- The Story of Arnold Rothstein | Johnny Burke (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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Everything's Ducky | Kermit `'Beetle'` McKay (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Private Lives of Adam and Eve |
Nick Lewis/ |
- | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Platinum High School | Steven Conway (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Mile | `'Killer'` Mears (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Operator | Little Joe Braun (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Andy Hardy Comes Home | Andrew "Andy" Hardy (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed | Gus Harris (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet |
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Operation Mad Ball | MSgt. Yancy Skibo (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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Baby Face Nelson | Lester M. `'Baby Face Nelson'` Gillis (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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The Bold and the Brave | Dooley (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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Francis in the Haunted House | David Prescott (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Magnificent Roughnecks | Frank Sommers (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Twinkle in God's Eye |
Rev. William Macklin II (Character), Producer |
- | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Drive a Crooked Road | Eddie Shannon (Character) | - | 1954 |
80% |
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri | Mike Forney (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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The Atomic Kid |
Barnaby "Blix" Waterberry (Character), Producer |
- | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Off Limits | Herbert Tuttle (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All Ashore | Francis "Moby" Dickerson (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Slight Case of Larceny | Augustus `'Geechy'` Cheevers (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sound Off | Mike Donnelly (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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My Outlaw Brother |
J. Dennis "Denny" O'Moore (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My True Story | Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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The Strip | Stanley Maxton (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Outlaw Brother | J. Dennis "Denny" O'Moore (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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Quicksand | Daniel "Dan" Brady (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet |
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The Fireball | Johnny Casar (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | He's a Cockeyed Wonder | Freddie Frisby (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet |
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The Big Wheel | Billy Coy (Character) | - | 1949 |
17% |
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Words and Music | Lorenz Hart (Character) | - | 1948 |
71% |
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Summer Holiday | Richard Miller (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet |
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Killer McCoy |
Tommy McCoy/ |
- | 1947 |
No Score Yet |
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Love Laughs at Andy Hardy | Andy Hardy (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mickey the Great | Unknown (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet |
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble | Andrew "Andy" Hardy (Character) | - | 1944 |
98% |
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National Velvet | Mi Taylor (Character) | - | 1944 |
100% |
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The Human Comedy | Homer Macauley (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet |
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Thousands Cheer | Emcee at the Show (Character) | - | 1943 |
100% |
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Girl Crazy | Danny Churchill, Jr. (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet |
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A Yank at Eton | Timothy Dennis (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet |
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The Courtship of Andy Hardy | Andrew `'Andy'` Hardy (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Andy Hardy's Double Life | Andy Hardy (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | We Must Have Music | Self | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet |
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Life Begins for Andy Hardy | Andrew `'Andy'` Hardy (Character) | - | 1941 |
40% |
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Men of Boys Town | Whitey Marsh (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet |
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Babes on Broadway | Tommy "Tom" Williams (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet |
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Andy Hardy's Private Secretary | Andrew `'Andy'` Hardy (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet |
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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante | Andrew `'Andy'` Hardy (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet |
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Strike Up the Band | James 'Jimmy' Connors (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet |
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Young Tom Edison | Thomas Edison (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet |
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Judge Hardy and Son | Andrew `'Andy'` Hardy (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Huckleberry Finn (Character) | - | 1939 |
90% |
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Babes in Arms | Michael C. 'Mickey' Moran (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet |
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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever | Andrew `'Andy'` Hardy (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet |
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Judge Hardy's Children | Andrew "Andy" Hardy (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet |
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Out West With the Hardys | Andrew 'Andy' Hardy (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet |
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You're Only Young Once | Andrew `'Andy'` Hardy (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet |
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Love Finds Andy Hardy | Andrew "Andy" Hardy (Character) | - | 1938 |
86% |
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Boys Town | Whitey Marsh (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet |
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Hold That Kiss | Chick Evans (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet |
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The Hardys Ride High | Andrew "Andy" Hardy (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stablemates | Michael `'Mickey'` (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Is a Headache | Mike' OToole (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet |
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Lord Jeff | Terry O'Mulvaney (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet |
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Hoosier Schoolboy | Shockey Carter (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet |
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Thoroughbreds Don't Cry | Timmie Donovan (Character) | - | 1937 |
95% |
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Captains Courageous | Dan Troop (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet |
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Live, Love and Learn | Jerry Crump (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet |
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A Family Affair | Andy Hardy (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little Pal | Jimmy (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Down the Stretch | "Snapper" Sinclair, aka Fred St. Clair (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet |
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The Devil Is a Sissy | "Gig" Stevens (Character) | - | 1936 |
88% |
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Little Lord Fauntleroy | Dick Tipton (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Healer | Jimmy (Character) | - | 1936 |
100% |
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Ah, Wilderness! | Tommy Miller (Character) | - | 1935 |
92% |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, a Fairy (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet |
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Reckless | Eddie (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet |
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Riffraff | Jimmy (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The County Chairman | Freckles (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Half a Sinner | Willie Clark (Character) | - | 1934 |
81% |
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Manhattan Melodrama | Blackie as a Boy (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beloved | Tommy (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Birds | Gladwyn Tootle (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mickey's Medicine Man | Mickey McGuire (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet |
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Hide-Out | William "Willie" Miller (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death on the Diamond | Mickey (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blind Date | Freddie Taylor (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet |
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan | Freckles (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mickey's Touchdown | Mickey McGuire (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Chance | Arthur Wilson (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Officer 13 | Buddy Malone (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Cage | Jimmy O'Hara (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Broadway to Hollywood | Ted Hackett III (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mickey the Great | Unknown (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet |
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The Beast of the City | Mickey Fitzpatrick (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sins Pay Day | Unknown (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Those Darn Kids | Unknown (Character) | - | 1930 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 90% | American Dad! | Short Producer (Guest Voice) | 2015 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Grady (Character) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Safe Harbor | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 85% | ER | Dr. George Bikel (Guest Star) | 1998 |
81% | 67% | Conan | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kung Fu: The Legend Continues | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Himself (Guest Voice) | 1995 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Full House | Mr. Dreghorn (Guest Star) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Matt Cleveland (Guest Star) | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Adventures of the Black Stallion | Henry Dailey (Character) | 1990-1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bluegrass | John Paul Jones (Character) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | 94% | The Golden Girls | Rocco (Guest Star) | 1988 |
40% | No Score Yet | One of the Boys | Oliver Nugent (Character) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tattletales | Guest | 1977 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Night Gallery | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dan August | Kenny O'Malley (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Red Skelton Show |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Guest Star), Self |
1957 1962 1965-1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Carol Burnett Show | Guest | 1967-1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lucy Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Charlie Paris (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1952 1957 1960-1961 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Combat! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Judy Garland Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Samuel T. Evans (Guest Star) | 1959-1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Startime | Unknown (Character) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1957-1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Producers' Showcase | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mickey Rooney Show | Mickey Mulligan (Character) | 1954-1955 |