Actor Mickey Rooney died

On Sunday, April 6, in California at the age of 93, American actor Mickey Rooney died.

It is reported by BBC .

Mickey Runi (Mickey Yul) was born in 1920 in a family of vaudeville actors, who first brought him on stage when he was one and a half years old. He received the first role in the cinema at the age of 6, until 1932, under the pseudonym, Mikguyir played in dozens of low -budget comedies.

In 1935, Mickey Runi starred in Max Reinhardt’s sleep on a summer night, by the end of the 1930s, Judy Garland’s participation in the musicals and the role of the village guy Andy Hardy in comedies from the life of provincial America made him one of the most successful Hollywood actors. In 1939, Mickey Runi received the Oscar award for “bringing youth to the movie screen and, as a performer of teenage roles, the establishment of a high bar” for other actors.

During the Second World War, he was called up to the front, after the war he could not return the former success, since the role of teenagers no longer approached age. His last box office was the film “National Velvet” (1944) with Elizabeth Taylor.

An attempt to create its own studio led Runi to bankruptcy. For the sake of paying debts, he agreed to any roles, starred on television, since 1979 he played on Broadway. Television works brought him the Ammmy and Golden Globe awards.

Among the most noticeable films of the post -war period with the participation of Mickey Rooney - the comedy “Breakfast at Tiffany” (1961), “This crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy world” (1963), “Babe: Pig in the city” (1998) and “Night in the Museum” (2006).

In 1983, Mickey Rooney was awarded the second honorary Oscar - “an outstanding actor who has been creating inimitable images in unforgettable films for 50 years.”