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
Ted Rooney Ted Rooney Ted Rooney is an American actor, known for his ongoing role as Morey Dell on "Gilmore Girls", neonatologist Dr. Tabash on "ER", and John McGarrigle on the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire". Rooney was born and raised in Portland. Oregon. He is the seventh of nine children. He graduated from Grant High School, where his father (Ed Rooney) was a teacher and basketball coach. Rooney completed his undergraduate degree in theater at Lewis and Clark College and received his MFA in acting at Temple University. After college, the 6'6" tall actor played semi-pro basketball in Germany. He lived for