Cast: Mickey Rooney

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Mickey Rooney. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Captains Courageous

1937 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Spencer Tracy · Freddie Bartholomew · Lionel Barrymore · Melvyn Douglas

Plot Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is a wealthy, spoiled 12-year-old who falls overboard on his way to Europe. When he regains consciousness on a Gloucester fishing boat, the ship’s captain (Lionel...

8.1

7K votes

8.1

7K votes

The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Plot TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end...

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

Breakfast at Tiffany's

1961 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Audrey Hepburn · George Peppard · Patricia Neal · Buddy Ebsen

Plot Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is New York call girl, whose allure captivates her upstairs neighbour Paul Varjak (George Peppard), a writer who pays the rent with the help of his...

7.7

68K votes

7.7

68K votes

Requiem for a Heavyweight

1962 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Nelson

Cast Anthony Quinn · Jackie Gleason · Mickey Rooney · Julie Harris

Plot Mountain Rivera is at the end of his boxing career after a knockout by Cassius Clay in the seventh round. His left eye is one punch from permanent trauma, his...

7.4

504 votes

7.4

504 votes

That's Entertainment!

1974 · Documentary · 134 min. · United States

Direction Jack Haley Jr.

Cast Fred Astaire · Bing Crosby · Gene Kelly · Peter Lawford

Plot Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favourite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

7.1

347 votes

7.1

347 votes

7.0

78 votes

The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

2007 · Documentary · 85 min. · United States

Cast Rudy Behlmer · Scott Eyman · Robert Gitt · A.C. Lyles Productions

Plot The nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures is the backdrop for this insightful documentary. Film historians, and survivors from the era take the audience from the early...

7.0

21 votes

7.0

21 votes

Drive a Crooked Road

1954 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Mickey Rooney · Dianne Foster · Kevin McCarthy · Jack Kelly

Plot Eddie Shannon is an undersized, sports-car mechanic who dreams of racing an expensive car in a European meet. He meets and falls in love with Barbara Mathews, and thinks she...

6.9

135 votes

6.9

135 votes

Night Gallery (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc · Jeff Corey · Gene R. Kearney

Cast Rod Serling · John Astin · Geraldine Page · Vincent Price

Plot Serling appeared in an art gallery setting and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings (by artist Tom Wright) that depicted the stories. Night Gallery...

6.9

166 votes

6.9

166 votes

Boys Town

1938 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Spencer Tracy · Mickey Rooney · Henry Hull · Leslie Fenton

Plot Spencer Tracy won his second Oscar for his portrayal of Father Edward J. Flanagan--then promptly turned the statuette over to the real Father Flanagan out of gratitude. The priest's philosophy...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

6.8

63 votes

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1963 · Movie · 154 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Jonathan Winters

Plot After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over...

6.8

5K votes

6.8

5K votes

Manhattan Melodrama

1934 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Clark Gable · William Powell · Myrna Loy · Leo Carrillo

Plot Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy star in this aptly titled film about best friends who end up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with...

6.8

736 votes

6.8

736 votes

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976 · Documentary · 126 min. · United States

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Fred Astaire · Gene Kelly · Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney

Plot Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

6.8

165 votes

6.8

165 votes

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1936 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

6.5

680 votes

6.5

680 votes

Men of Boys Town

1941 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

6.3

554 votes

6.3

554 votes

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1935 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle · Max Reinhardt

Cast Ian Hunter · Verree Teasdale · Hobart Cavanaugh · Dick Powell

Plot Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the...

6.3

251 votes

6.3

251 votes

Young Tom Edison

1940 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Mickey Rooney · Fay Bainter · George Bancroft · Virginia Weidler

Plot Mickey Rooney stars as the young boy who grew up to become America's greatest inventor in this biographical film based on his early life.

6.3

401 votes

6.3

401 votes

The Human Comedy

1943 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Mickey Rooney · Frank Morgan · James Craig · Marsha Hunt

Plot Recently-deceased Matthew Macauley looks down upon his family in small-town Ithaca, where eldest son Marcus has departed to await deployment for combat in the Second World War. This leaves middle...

6.2

143 votes

6.2

143 votes

Baby Face Nelson

1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Mickey Rooney · Carolyn Jones · Cedric Hardwicke · Leo Gordon

Plot George "Babyface" Nelson becomes one of the most important gangsters of 1920s Chicago by making brutal robberies. In order to compete with Al Capone he allies himself with John Dillinger...

6.2

75 votes

6.2

75 votes