Mickey Rooney Mickey Rooney Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, producer and radio personality. In a career spanning nine decades and continuing until shortly before his death, he appeared in more than 300 films and was one of the last surviving stars of the silent film era. At the height of a career that was marked by precipitous declines and raging comebacks, Rooney performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 15 films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomized American family values. A versatile performer, he
Joseph Parker Jr. Samaritan Hospital in Greensboro on September 27, 2012, at the age of 95. Researchers concluded that he was the last surviving physician who served at Omaha Beach. Joseph Parker Jr. Joseph Lee Parker Jr. (November 20, 1916 – September 27, 2012) was an American doctor. Parker was the last surviving United States Naval physician who participated in the Allied invasion of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Parker was born in Waycross, Georgia, to Joseph Lee Parker Sr. and Vera Estelle Sweat. He graduated from the University of Georgia before completing medical school at the Medical College of Georgia in