Mickey Rooney
Tue Oct 01 2002 at 10:41:02
Actor Mickey Rooney was born Joe Yule Jnr in Brooklyn New York, on 23 September 1920 and died on 6 April 2014. His parents, Nell Carter and comic Joe Yule Sr, were in vaudeville, and he made his first stage appearance as part of their act when he was just fifteen months old. His parents divorced when he was three, and his mother gained custody. Under her aegis he made his screen debut at the age of six, as a cigar smoking midget in the short silent film Not to Be Trusted, followed a year later with a full length feature Orchids and Ermine.