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  • Category: Live theatre
  • Unveiled: 26 Apr 2004
  • Star rank: 2337
  • Address:
    6801 Hollywood Blvd
  • Position: 4 tiles from the curb, facing west
  • GPS location:
    34.101675, -118.338991

Mickey & Jan Rooney

Next star: Beverly Garland
Previous star: Preston Foster

Biography

Rooney in 1945

Source: Wikipedia

Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr.; September 23, 1920) is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He has received multiple awards, including a Juvenile Academy Award, an Honorary Academy Award, two Golden Globes and an Emmy Award. Working as a performer since he was a child, he was a superstar as a teenager for the films in which he played Andy Hardy, and he has had one of the longest careers of any actor, to date spanning 90 years actively making films in ten decades, from 1920s to 2010s. He is the last surviving male star from 1930s Hollywood. For a younger generation of fans, he gained international fame for his leading role as Henry Dailey in The Family Channel’s The Adventures of the Black Stallion, as well as the film itself.

Fact file

  • Born: Joseph Yule, Jr. September 23, 1920 (age 91) Brooklyn, New York, US
  • Occupation: Actor, comedian, vaudevillian
  • Years active: 1922–present
  • Spouse: Ava Gardner (1942–43) Betty Jane Rase (aka B.J. Baker) (1944–48) Martha Vickers (1949–1951) Elaine Devry (1952–58) Carolyn Mitchell (1958–66) Marge Lane (1966–67) Carolyn Hockett (1969–75) Jan Chamberlin (1978–present)
  • Children: 9 children

Read more about Mickey & Jan Rooney at Wikipedia

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