A bit of news for the geezers on the board

Agreed. Time for Zach to update the avatar.

Very long if not illustrious career. I remember him most from the Mickey Rooney Show. He won a Primetime Emmy in 1981 for his role as the retarded character, Bill, in the TV movie by the same name. Rooney was nominated for 3 Academy Awards. He was active until his death filming Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and is listed in pre-production for 2 other films on IMDB. /salute

Number one box office draw in the country for years and a bronze star recipient in WWII.

Still, his death will receive less attention then some loser who dies from an heroin overdose.

I thought that was Woody Guthrie

I never could stand those dumb-assed Andy Hardy movies.

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Favorite Mickey Rooney role: Ding Bell from "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".

The whole thing with Rooney, Buddy Hackett and Jim Backus in the plane is priceless.

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One of the FUNNIEST movies ever made! Rat Race was a pretty decent rip-off, though

The idea of putting that many big names in small parts reminds me of The Longest Day...about Normandy invasion. That movie had at least 20 big name stars and very few of them were on screen for more than 5 minutes.

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I never could stand those dumb-assed Andy Hardy movies.

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The Andy Hardy movies were not very good from the standpoint of writing. So, I agree with you. In the same era we had the Marx Brothers movies and if you watched them today they are still very funny.

"You two girls are everything I want in a woman...you're tall and short, blond and brunette, let's get married."
"But that's bigamy"
"Yes it is. Let's all be big about this. One wife was good enough for your grandmother. But who wants to marry your grandmother. Not even your grandfather."