The Mickey Rooney Show three stormy marriages by the early 1950s to actresses Ava Gardner, Martha Vickers, and Betty Jane Rase had marred his wholesome "Andy Hardy" image. (His fourth wife at the time, Elaine, was not an actress.) Although Rooney was thirty-four years old in 1954, his character Mickey Mulligan was only twenty-three. The series aired from August 28, 1954, to June 4, 1955 on Saturday evenings opposite the first half-hour of both CBS's "The Jackie Gleason Show" and ABC's "The Dotty Mack Show", a low-budget novelty program in which Dotty Mack lip-synced many of the works of other singers. Rooney's then-manager Maurice
Brian Rooney (actor) his long-running role of Michael Winters in the ABC-TV series "G.P.", and as Brendan Maloney in the 1991 miniseries "Brides of Christ". He has appeared in a number of made-for-television movies including "The Rogue Stallion" (1990), "South Pacific Adventures" (1991), and "Pirates Island" (1991). More recently Rooney played the role of Cedric in the 2001 children's television series "Escape of the Artful Dodger". In 2010, he guest starred as the character Jones in "" (Season 2, Episode 12). Brian Rooney (actor) Brian Rooney (Born 2 November 1972) is a Northern Irish-born Australian actor with film, television and stage credits. He