name	Ava Gardner
birth name	Ava Lavinia Gardner
birth date	December 24, 1922
birth place	Grabtown, North Carolina, U.S.
death date	January 25, 1990
death place	Westminster, London, England, UK
years active	1941–86
occupation	Actress
spouse	}}

Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress.

She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in ''The Killers'' (1946). She became one of Hollywood's leading actresses, considered one of the most beautiful women of her day. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in ''Mogambo'' (1953).

She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including ''The Hucksters'' (1947), ''Show Boat'' (1951), ''The Snows of Kilimanjaro'' (1952), ''The Barefoot Contessa'' (1954), ''Bhowani Junction'' (1956), ''On the Beach'' (1959), ''Seven Days in May'' (1964), ''The Night of the Iguana'' (1964), ''The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean'' (1972), ''Earthquake'' (1974), and ''The Cassandra Crossing'' (1976). Gardner continued to act regularly until 1986, four years before her death from pneumonia, at age 67, in 1990.

She is listed 25th among the American Film Institute's Greatest female stars.

Early years[link]

Gardner was born in the big farming community of Grabtown, Johnston County, North Carolina, the youngest of seven children (she had two brothers, Raymond and Melvin, and four sisters, Beatrice, Elsie Mae, Inez, and Myra). Her parents, Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" (née Baker) and Jonas Bailey Gardner, were poor cotton and tobacco farmers. Her ancestry was said to include Scots-Irish, English, Irish, French Huguenot, and American Indian (Tuscarora). She was raised a Baptist. While the children still were young, the Gardners lost their property, forcing Jonas Gardner to work at a sawmill and Mollie to begin working as a cook and housekeeper at a dormitory for teachers at the nearby Brogden School.

When Gardner was seven years old, the family decided to try their luck in a larger city, Newport News, Virginia, where Mollie Gardner found work managing a boardinghouse for the city's many shipworkers. While in Newport News, Gardner's father became ill and died from bronchitis in 1938, when Ava was 15 years old. After Jonas Gardner's death, the family moved to Rock Ridge near Wilson, North Carolina, where Mollie Gardner ran another boarding house for teachers. Ava Gardner attended high school in Rock Ridge and she graduated from there in 1939. She then attended secretarial classes at Atlantic Christian College in Wilson for about a year.

Early career[link]

Gardner was visiting her sister Beatrice ("Bappie") in New York in 1941 when Beatrice's husband Larry Tarr, a professional photographer, offered to take her portrait. He was so pleased with the results that he displayed the finished product in the front window of his Tarr Photography Studio on 25th Avenue. A Loews Theatres legal clerk, Barnard "Barney" Duhan, spotted Gardner's photo in Tarr's studio. At the time, Duhan often posed as an MGM talent scout to meet girls, using the fact that MGM was a subsidiary of Loews. Duhan entered Tarr's and tried to get Gardner's number, but was rebuffed by the receptionist. Duhan made the offhand comment, ''"Somebody should send her info to MGM"'', and the Tarrs did so immediately. Shortly after, Gardner, who at the time was a student at Atlantic Christian College, traveled to New York to be interviewed at MGM's New York office by Al Altman, head of MGM's New York talent department. With cameras rolling, he directed the eighteen-year-old to walk toward the camera, turn and walk away, then rearrange some flowers in a vase. He did not attempt to record her voice because her Southern accent made it almost impossible for him to understand her. Though Al thought Ava the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen, he believed the test was a disaster and was completely surprised by what he saw in the screening room. On screen she was magnetic. The camera loved her. He sent the test to Hollywood. Louis B. Mayer, head of the studio, sent a telegram to Al: "She can't sing, she can't act, she can't talk, She's terrific!" She was offered a standard contract by MGM, and left school for Hollywood in 1941 with her sister Bappie accompanying her. MGM's first order of business was to provide her a speech coach, as her Carolina drawl was nearly incomprehensible to them.

Career[link]

Gardner came to prominence in the Mark Hellinger-produced smash hit film noir ''The Killers'' (1946), which introduced Burt Lancaster to the screen in the lead role. Other films include ''The Hucksters'' (1947) with Clark Gable, ''Show Boat'' (1951), ''The Snows of Kilimanjaro'' (1952) with Gregory Peck, ''Lone Star'' (1952) with Clark Gable, ''Mogambo'' (1953) with Clark Gable and Grace Kelly, 1954's ''The Barefoot Contessa'' with Humphrey Bogart (which some consider to be Gardner's "signature film" since it mirrored her real life custom of going barefoot), ''Bhowani Junction'' (1956), ''The Sun Also Rises'' with Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn (in which she played party-girl Brett Ashley) (1957), and the film version of Nevil Shute's best-selling ''On the Beach'' with Peck and Fred Astaire. Off-camera, she could be witty and pithy, as in her assessment of director John Ford, who directed ''Mogambo'' (''"The meanest man on earth. Thoroughly evil. Adored him!"'')

Gardner again appeared with Lancaster, this time paired with Kirk Douglas, in ''Seven Days in May'' (1962), a taut thriller about a military takeover of the US government. She found herself billed between Charlton Heston and David Niven in the epic ''55 Days at Peking'' in 1963, a lavish version of the Chinese revolt against foreign control during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.

The following year, she played her last great leading role in a superlative film, ''The Night of the Iguana'' (1964), based upon a Tennessee Williams play and starring Richard Burton as an atheist clergyman and Deborah Kerr as a gentle artist traveling with her aged poet grandfather. John Huston directed the movie in Puerto Vallarta Mexico, insisting on making the film in black and white, a decision he later regretted because of the vivid colors of the flora. Gardner received billing below Burton but above Deborah Kerr. Gardner was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe award for her hearty performance in this signature role.

Two years later, in 1966, Gardner briefly sought the role of Mrs. Robinson in Mike Nichols' ''The Graduate'' (1967). She reportedly called Nichols and said, "I want to see you! I want to talk about this ''Graduate'' thing!" Nichols never seriously considered her for the part, preferring to cast a younger woman (Anne Bancroft was 36 while Gardner was 45), but he did visit her hotel, where he later recounted that "she sat at a little French desk with a telephone, she went through every movie star cliché. She said, 'All right, let's talk about your movie. First of all, I strip for nobody.'"

Gardner moved to London, England in 1968, undergoing an elective hysterectomy to allay her worries of contracting the uterine cancer that had claimed the life of her own mother. That year, she made what some consider to be one of her best films, ''Mayerling'', in which she played the supporting role of Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Austria opposite James Mason as Emperor Franz Joseph I. She appeared in a number of disaster films throughout the 1970s, notably ''Earthquake'' (1974) with Charlton Heston, ''The Cassandra Crossing'' (1976), and the Canadian movie ''City on Fire'' (1979). She also appeared briefly as Lillie Langtry at the end of ''The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean'' (1972) with Paul Newman and Jacqueline Bisset, and in ''The Blue Bird'' (1976) with Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Fonda.

Her last movie was ''Regina Roma'' (1982), a direct-to-video release. In the 1980s she acted primarily on television, including the miniseries remake of ''The Long Hot Summer'' (1985) and the prime-time soap opera ''Knots Landing'', also in 1985. In 1986 she appeared in her two final projects, the TV movies ''Harem'' and ''Maggie''.

Marriages and relationships[link]

Mickey Rooney[link]

Soon after her arrival in Los Angeles, Gardner met fellow MGM contract player Mickey Rooney; they married on January 10, 1942, in Ballard, California; she was 19 years old and he was 21. They divorced in 1943. He reputedly rhapsodized about their sex life later, but Gardner said, "He may have enjoyed the sex, but [goodness knows] I didn't." She once characterized their marriage as ''"Love Finds Andy Hardy"''.

Howard Hughes[link]

Gardner became a friend of businessman and aviator Howard Hughes in the early to mid-1940s and the relationship lasted into the 1950s. Ava stated in her autobiography ''Ava: My Story,'' that she was never in love with Howard Hughes, but he was in and out of her life for about twenty years. Howard's trust in Ava was what kept their relationship alive. She describes him as "painfully shy, completely enigmatic and more eccentric...than anyone [she] had ever met."

Artie Shaw[link]

Gardner's second marriage was brief and to jazz musician and band leader Artie Shaw, from 1945 to 1946.

Frank Sinatra[link]

Gardner's third and last marriage (1951–1957) was to singer and actor Frank Sinatra. She would later say in her autobiography that he was the love of her life. Sinatra left his wife, Nancy, for Ava and their subsequent marriage made headlines. Sinatra was savaged by gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, the Hollywood establishment, the Roman Catholic Church and by his fans for leaving his wife for a noted femme fatale. Gardner used her considerable influence, particularly with Harry Cohn's wife, to get Sinatra cast in his Oscar-winning role in ''From Here to Eternity'' (1953). That role and the award revitalized both Sinatra's acting and singing careers.

The Gardner-Sinatra marriage was tumultuous. Gardner confided to Artie Shaw, her second husband, that “With him [Frank] it’s impossible…it’s like being with a woman. He’s so gentle. It’s as though he thinks I’ll break, as though I’m a piece of Dresden china and he’s gonna hurt me.” During their marriage Gardner became pregnant twice, but she had two abortions. "MGM had all sorts of penalty clauses about their stars having babies," she said. She said years later, "We couldn't even take care of ourselves. How were we going to take care of a baby?" Gardner and Sinatra remained good friends for the rest of her life.

Luis Miguel Dominguín[link]

Gardner divorced Sinatra in 1957 and headed to Spain where she began a friendship with writer Ernest Hemingway. While staying with Hemingway at his villa in San Francisco de Paula in Havana, Cuba, Gardner once swam alone with no bathing suit in his pool. After watching her, Hemingway ordered his staff: "The water is not to be emptied". Gardner's friendship with Hemingway led to her becoming a fan of bullfighting and bullfighters such as Luis Miguel Dominguín, who became her lover. "It was a sort of madness, honey," she said later of the time.

Final years and death[link]

After a lifetime of smoking, Gardner suffered from emphysema, a terminal disease, in addition to an auto-immune disorder (which may have been lupus). Two strokes in 1986 left her partially paralyzed and bedridden. Although Gardner could afford her medical expenses, Sinatra wanted to pay for her to visit a specialist in the United States, and she allowed him to make the arrangements for a medically-staffed private plane. Her last words (to her housekeeper Carmen), were reportedly, "I'm so tired," before she died of pneumonia at the age of 67. After her death, Sinatra's daughter, Tina, found him slumped in his room, crying, and unable to speak.

Gardner was not only the love of his life, but also was the inspiration for one of his most personal songs, "I'm a Fool to Want You", which Sinatra (who received a co-writing credit for the song) recorded twice, toward the end of his contract with Columbia Records and during his years on Capitol Records. ("It was Ava who taught him how to sing a torch song", Sinatra arranger Nelson Riddle was once quoted as saying.) Because of the presence of a black limousine parked behind the crowd of 500 mourners, it was reported that Sinatra attended her funeral; it turned out to be a hairstylist from Fayetteville, North Carolina, who felt that a limousine was the only appropriate mode of transportation to Gardner's funeral. A floral arrangement at Gardner's graveside simply read: "With My Love, Francis".

Gardner was buried in the Sunset Memorial Park, Smithfield, North Carolina, next to her brothers and their parents, Jonah (1878–1938) and Mollie Gardner (1883–1943). The town of Smithfield now has an Ava Gardner Museum.

Award Nominations[link]

Gardner was nominated for an Academy Award for ''Mogambo'' (1953); the award was won by Audrey Hepburn for ''Roman Holiday''. Her performance as Maxine Faulk in ''The Night of the Iguana'' (1964), was well reviewed, and she was nominated a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe.

Film portrayals[link]

Gardner has been portrayed by Marcia Gay Harden in the TV miniseries ''Sinatra'', Deborah Kara Unger in HBO's ''The Rat Pack'', Kate Beckinsale in the 2004 Howard Hughes biopic, ''The Aviator'' and Anna Drijver in the 2012 Italian TV film ''Walter Chiari - Fino all'ultima risata''.

Filmography[link]

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Short subjects[link]

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Television[link]

{|class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;" border="2" cellpadding="4" background: #f9f9f9; |- align="center" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role |- |rowspan="3"|1985 |''A.D.'' | Agrippina |- |''Knots Landing'' | Ruth Galveston |- |''The Long Hot Summer'' | Minnie Littlejohn |- |rowspan="2"|1986 |''Harem'' | Kadin |- |''Maggie'' | Diane Webb |}

References[link]

Further reading[link]

Cannon, Doris Rollins. ''Grabtown Girl: Ava Gardner's North Carolina Childhood and Her Enduring Ties to Home''. Down Home Press, 2001. ISBN 1-878086-89-8

Fowler, Karin. ''Ava Gardner: A Bio-Bibliography''. Greenwood Press, 1990. ISBN 0-313-26776-6

Gardner, Ava. ''Ava: My Story''. Bantam, 1990. ISBN 0-553-07143-3

Gigliotti, Gilbert, editor. ''Ava Gardner: Touches of Venus''. Entasis Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9800999-5-9

Rivers, Alton. ''Love, Ava: A Novel''. St. Martin's Press, 2007. ISBN 0-312-36279-X

Server, Lee. ''Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing''. St. Martin's Press, 2006. ISBN 0-312-31209-1

Wayne, Jane Ellen. ''Ava's Men: The Private Life of Ava Gardner''. Robson Books, 2004. ISBN 1-86105-785-7

External links[link]

A Woman We Love: Ava Gardner photo gallery, everyday_i_show

Ava Gardner at TVGuide.com

Ava Gardner Museum

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name	Gregory Peck
birth name	Eldred Gregory Peck
birth date	April 05, 1916
birth place	La Jolla, California, U.S.
death date	June 12, 2003
death place	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
death cause	Bronchopneumonia
education	San Diego High School
alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
resting place	Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, California
occupation	Actor, Humanitarian
home town	San Diego, California
residence	Los Angeles, California
religion	Catholic
party	Democrat
years active	1942–2000
spouse	Greta Kukkonen (1942–55; divorce)Veronique Passani (1955–2003; his death)
children	5; includingCecilia Peck
family	Ethan Peck (grandson)
awards	Academy Award,Screen Actors Guild Award,Golden Globe,Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award,Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award,National Medal of Arts,Presidential Medal of Freedom
signature	}}

Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor.

One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', for which he won an Academy Award. President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at #12. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1983.

Early life[link]

Eldred Gregory Peck was born in La Jolla, California, the son of Missouri-born Bernice Mae "Bunny" (née Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, who was a chemist and pharmacist. Peck's father was of Irish (maternal) heritage and English (paternal) heritage, and his mother was of Scots (paternal) and English (maternal) ancestry. Peck's father was a Catholic and his mother converted upon marrying his father. Peck's Irish-born paternal grandmother, Catherine Ashe, was related to Thomas Ashe, who took part in the Easter Rising fewer than three weeks after Peck's birth and died while on hunger strike in 1917. Peck's parents divorced by the time he was six years old and he spent the next few years being raised by his maternal grandmother.

Peck was sent to a Roman Catholic military school, St. John's Military Academy, in Los Angeles at the age of 10. His grandmother died while he was enrolled there, and his father again took over his upbringing. At 14, Peck attended San Diego High School and lived with his father. When he graduated, he enrolled briefly at San Diego State Teacher's College, (now known as San Diego State University), joined the track team, took his first theatre and public-speaking courses, and joined the Epsilon Eta fraternity. He stayed for just one academic year, thereafter obtaining admission to his first-choice college, the University of California, Berkeley. For a short time, he took a job driving a truck for an oil company. In 1936, he declared himself a pre-medical student at Berkeley, and majored in English. Standing 6'3" (1.905m) he rowed on the university crew.

The Berkeley acting coach decided Peck would be perfect for university theater work. Peck developed an interest in acting and was recruited by Edwin Duerr, director of the university's Little Theater. He went on to appear in five plays during his senior year. Although his tuition fee was only $26 per year, Peck still struggled to pay, and had to work as a "hasher" (kitchen helper) for the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority in exchange for meals. Peck would later say about Berkeley that, "it was a very special experience for me and three of the greatest years of my life. It woke me up and made me a human being." In 1997 Peck donated $25,000 to the Berkeley crew in honor of his coach, the renowned Ky Ebright.

Acting career[link]

Stage[link]

After graduating from Berkeley with a BA degree in English, Peck dropped the name "Eldred" and headed to New York City to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse with the legendary acting teacher Sanford Meisner. He was often broke and sometimes slept in Central Park. He worked at the 1939 World's Fair and as a tour guide for NBC's television broadcasting. In 1940, Peck learned more of the acting craft, working in exchange for food, at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, VA, appearing in five plays including ''Family Portrait'' and ''On Earth as It Is''.

His stage career started in 1941 when he played the secretary in a Katharine Cornell production of George Bernard Shaw's play ''The Doctor's Dilemma''. Unfortunately, the play opened in San Francisco just one week before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He made his Broadway debut as the lead in Emlyn Williams' ''The Morning Star'' in 1942. His second Broadway performance that year was in ''The Willow and I'' with Edward Pawley. Peck's acting abilities were in high demand during World War II, since he was exempt from military service owing to a back injury suffered while receiving dance and movement lessons from Martha Graham as part of his acting training. Twentieth Century Fox claimed he had injured his back while rowing at university, but in Peck's words, "In Hollywood, they didn't think a dance class was macho enough, I guess. I've been trying to straighten out that story for years."

In 1949 Peck co-founded The La Jolla Playhouse, at his birthplace, with Mel Ferrer and Dorothy McGuire. This local community theater and landmark (now in a new home at the University of California, San Diego) still thrives today. It has attracted Hollywood film stars on hiatus both as performers and enthusiastic supporters since its inception.

Film[link]

Peck's first film, ''Days of Glory'', was released in 1944. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor five times, four of which came in his first five years of film acting: for ''The Keys of the Kingdom'' (1944), ''The Yearling'' (1946), ''Gentleman's Agreement'' (1947), and ''Twelve O'Clock High'' (1949).

''The Keys of the Kingdom'' emphasized his stately presence. As the farmer Ezra "Penny" Baxter in ''The Yearling'' his good-humored warmth and affection toward the characters playing his son and wife confounded critics who had been insisting he was a lifeless performer. ''Duel in the Sun'' (1946) showed his range as an actor in his first "against type" role as a cruel, libidinous gunslinger. ''Gentleman's Agreement'' established his power in the "social conscience" genre in a film that took on the deep-seated but subtle antisemitism of mid-century corporate America.''Twelve O'Clock High'' was the first of many successful war films in which Peck embodied the brave, effective, yet human fighting man.

Among his other films were ''Spellbound'' (1945), ''The Paradine Case'' (1947), ''The Gunfighter'' (1950), ''Moby Dick'' (1956), ''On the Beach'' (1959), which brought to life the terrors of global nuclear war, ''The Guns of Navarone'' (1961), and ''Roman Holiday'' (1953), with Audrey Hepburn in her Oscar-winning role. Peck and Hepburn were close friends until her death; Peck even introduced her to her first husband, Mel Ferrer. Peck once again teamed up with director William Wyler in the epic Western ''The Big Country'' (1958), which he co-produced. Peck won the Academy Award with his fifth nomination, playing Atticus Finch, a Depression-era lawyer and widowed father, in a film adaptation of the Harper Lee novel ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. Released in 1962 during the height of the US civil rights movement in the South, this movie and his role were Peck's favorites. In 2003 Atticus Finch was named the top film hero of the past 100 years by the American Film Institute.

Peck served as the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1967, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute from 1967 to 1969, Chairman of the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund in 1971, and National Chairman of the American Cancer Society in 1966. He was a member of the National Council on the Arts from 1964 to 1966.

A physically powerful man, he was known to do a majority of his own fight scenes, rarely using body or stunt doubles. In fact, Robert Mitchum, his on-screen opponent in ''Cape Fear'', told about the time Peck once accidentally punched him for real during their final fight scene in the movie, he felt the impact for days afterward. Peck's rare attempts at unsympathetic albeit provocative roles usually fell short. Early on, he played the renegade son in the Western ''Duel in the Sun'' and, later in his career, the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in ''The Boys from Brazil'' co-starring Laurence Olivier.

Later work[link]

In the 1980s Peck moved to television, where he starred in the mini-series ''The Blue and the Gray'', playing Abraham Lincoln. He also starred with Christopher Plummer, Sir John Gielgud, and Barbara Bouchet in the television film ''The Scarlet and The Black'', about a real-life Roman Catholic priest in the Vatican who smuggled Jews and other refugees away from the Nazis during World War II.

Peck, Mitchum, and Martin Balsam all had roles in the 1991 remake of ''Cape Fear'' directed by Martin Scorsese. All three were in the original 1962 version. In the remake, Peck played Max Cady's lawyer. His last prominent film role also came in 1991, in ''Other People's Money'', directed by Norman Jewison and based on the stage play of that name. Peck played a business owner trying to save his company against a hostile takeover bid by a Wall Street liquidator played by Danny DeVito.

Peck retired from active film-making at that point. Like Cary Grant before him, Peck spent the last few years of his life touring the world doing speaking engagements in which he would show clips from his movies, reminisce, and take questions from the audience. He did come out of retirement for a 1998 miniseries version of one of his most famous films, ''Moby Dick'', portraying Father Mapple (played by Orson Welles in the 1956 version), with Patrick Stewart as Captain Ahab, the role Peck played in the earlier film.

Peck had been offered the role of Grandpa Joe in the 2005 film ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'', but died before he could accept it. David Kelly was then given the part.

Politics[link]

In 1947, while many Hollywood figures were being blacklisted for similar activities, Peck signed a letter deploring a House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of alleged communists in the film industry. President Richard Nixon placed Peck on his enemies list due to his liberal activism.

A lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party, Peck was suggested in 1970 as a possible Democratic candidate to run against Ronald W. Reagan for the office of Governor of California. Although he later admitted that he had no interest in being a candidate himself for public office, Peck encouraged one of his sons, Carey Peck, to run for political office. Carey was defeated both times by slim margin in races in 1978 and 1980 against Republican U.S. Representative Robert K. Dornan, a former actor.

In an interview with the Irish media, Peck revealed that former President Lyndon Johnson had told him that, had he sought re-election in 1968, he intended to offer Peck the post of U.S. ambassador to Ireland — a post Peck, due to his Irish ancestry, said he might well have taken, saying "[It] would have been a great adventure". Author Michael Freedland, in his biography of Peck, substantiates the report and says that Johnson indicated that his presentation of the Medal of Freedom to Peck would perhaps make up for his inability to confer the ambassadorship.

Peck was outspoken against the Vietnam War, while remaining supportive of his son, Stephen, who fought there. In 1972 Peck produced the film version of Daniel Berrigan's play ''The Trial of the Catonsville Nine'' about the prosecution of a group of Vietnam protesters for civil disobedience. Despite his reservations about American general Douglas MacArthur as a man, Peck had long wanted to play him on film, and did so in ''MacArthur'' in 1976.

In 1978, Peck traveled to Alabama, the setting of ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' to campaign for Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Donald W. Stewart of Anniston, who defeated the Republican candidate, James D. Martin, a former U.S. representative from Gadsden.

In 1987, Peck did the voice-over on television commercials opposing President Reagan's Supreme Court nomination of conservative jurist Robert Bork. Bork's nomination was defeated. Peck was also a vocal supporter of ridding the world of nuclear weapons.

Personal life[link]

In October 1942 Peck married Finnish-born Greta Kukkonen, with whom he had three sons, Jonathan (1944–1975), Stephen (b. 1946), and Carey Paul (b. 1949). They were divorced on December 30, 1955, but maintained a very good relationship. Jonathan Peck, a television news reporter, committed suicide in 1975. Stephen Peck is active in support of American veterans from the Vietnam War; his first wife is screenwriter Kimi Peck, who co-wrote ''Little Darlings'' with Dalene Young. Carey Peck had political ambitions, running for Congress in California in 1978 and again in 1980 with the support of his father and family. He narrowly lost to conservative Republican Bob Dornan.

On December 31, 1955, the day after his divorce was finalized, Peck married Veronique Passani, a Paris news reporter who had interviewed him in 1953 before he went to Italy to film ''Roman Holiday''. He asked her to lunch six months later and they became inseparable. They had a son, Anthony, and a daughter Cecilia Peck. The couple remained married until Gregory Peck's death.

Peck had grandchildren from both marriages.

Peck owned the thoroughbred steeplechase race horse Different Class, which raced in England. The horse was favored for the 1968 Grand National but finished third. Peck was close friends with French president Jacques Chirac.

Peck was a practicing Roman Catholic, although he disagreed with the Church's positions on abortion and the ordination of women.

Death[link]

On June 12, 2003, Peck died in his sleep at home from bronchopneumonia. His wife Veronique was by his side.

Gregory Peck is entombed in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels mausoleum in Los Angeles, California. His eulogy was read by Brock Peters, whose character, Tom Robinson, was defended by Peck's Atticus Finch in ''To Kill a Mockingbird''.

Awards and honors[link]

Peck was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning once. He was nominated for ''The Keys of the Kingdom'' (1945), ''The Yearling'' (1946), ''Gentleman's Agreement'' (1947) and ''Twelve O'Clock High'' (1949). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. In 1968 he received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Peck also received many Golden Globe awards. He won in 1947 for ''The Yearling'', in 1963 for ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', and in 1999 for the TV mini series ''Moby Dick''. He was nominated in 1978 for ''The Boys from Brazil''. He received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1969, and was given the Henrietta Award in 1951 and 1955 for ''World Film Favorite — Male''.

In 1969 US President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. In 1971 the Screen Actors Guild presented Peck with the SAG Life Achievement Award. In 1989 the American Film Institute gave Peck the AFI Life Achievement Award. He received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema in 1996.

In 1986 Peck was honored alongside actress Gene Tierney with the first Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival Spain for their body of work.

In 1987, Peck was awarded the George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.

In 1993, Peck was awarded with an Honorary Golden Bear at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.

In 1998 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

In 2000 Peck was made a Doctor of Letters by the National University of Ireland. He was a founding patron of the University College Dublin School of Film, where he persuaded Martin Scorsese to become an honorary patron. Peck was also chairman of the American Cancer Society for a short time.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Gregory Peck has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6100 Hollywood Blvd. In November 2005 the star was stolen, and has since been replaced.

On April 28, 2011, a ceremony was held in Beverly Hills, California celebrating the first day of issue of a U.S. postage stamp commemorating Peck. The stamp is the 17th commemorative stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series.

Filmography[link]

{|class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;" border="2" cellpadding="4" background: #f9f9f9; |- align="center" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes |- |rowspan="2"|1944 |''Days of Glory'' | Vladimir | |- |''The Keys of the Kingdom'' | Father Francis Chisholm | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |- |rowspan="2"|1945 |''The Valley of Decision'' | Paul Scott | |- |''Spellbound'' | John Ballantyne | |- |rowspan="2"|1946 |''The Yearling'' | Ezra "Penny" Baxter | Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |- |''Duel in the Sun'' | Lewton 'Lewt' McCanles | |- |rowspan="3"|1947 |''The Macomber Affair'' | Robert Wilson | |- |''Gentleman's Agreement'' | Philip Schuyler Green | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |- |''The Paradine Case'' | Anthony Keane | |- |rowspan="3"|1949 |''Yellow Sky'' | James 'Stretch' Dawson | |- |''The Great Sinner'' | Fedja | |- |''Twelve O'Clock High'' | Gen. Frank Savage | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |- | 1950 |''The Gunfighter'' |Jimmy Ringo | |- |rowspan="5"|1951 |''Captain Horatio Hornblower'' | Captain Horatio Hornblower | |- |''Only the Valiant'' | Captain Richard Lance | |- |''Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards'' | |Short subject |- |''David and Bathsheba'' | King David | |- |''Pictura: An Adventure in Art'' | Narrator | Documentary |- |rowspan="2"|1952 |''The Snows of Kilimanjaro'' | Harry Street | |- |''The World in His Arms'' | Capt. Jonathan Clark | |- |rowspan="2"|1953 |''The Million Pound Note'' | Henry Adams | |- |''Roman Holiday'' | Joe Bradley | Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |- |rowspan="2"|1954 |''Night People'' | Col. Steve Van Dyke | |- |''The Purple Plain'' | Squadron Leader Bill Forrester | |- |rowspan="2"|1956 |''The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit'' | Tom Rath | |- |''Moby Dick'' | Captain Ahab | |- | 1957 |''Designing Woman'' |Mike Hagen | |- |rowspan="3"|1958 |''The Hidden World'' |Narrator |Documentary |- |''The Bravados'' | Jim Douglass | |- |''The Big Country'' | James McKay |Also producer |- |rowspan="3"|1959 |''Pork Chop Hill'' |Lieutenant Joe Clemons | |- |''Beloved Infidel'' | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |- |''On the Beach'' | Cmdr. Dwight Lionel Towers, USS ''Sawfish'' | |- |1961 |''The Guns of Navarone'' |Capt. Keith Mallory | |- |rowspan="4"|1962 |''Cape Fear'' |Sam Bowden | |- |''Lykke og krone'' | |Documentary |- |''How the West Was Won'' | Cleve Van Valen | |- |''To Kill a Mockingbird'' | Atticus Finch | Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |- |1963 |''Captain Newman, M.D.'' | Capt. Josiah J. Newman, MD | Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |- |1964 |''Behold a Pale Horse'' | Manuel Artiguez | |- |1965 |''Mirage'' | David Stillwell | |- |rowspan="2"|1966 |''John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums'' |Narrator |Documentary |- |''Arabesque'' | Prof. David Pollock | |- |1967 |''Pähkähullu Suomi'' | |Cameo |- |rowspan="4"|1969 |''The Stalking Moon'' |Sam Varner | |- |''Mackenna's Gold'' | MacKenna | |- |''The Chairman'' |John Hathaway | |- |''Marooned'' | Charles Keith | |- |1970 |''I Walk the Line'' | Sheriff Tawes | |- |1971 |''Shoot Out'' | Clay Lomax | |- |rowspan="2"|1974 |''Billy Two Hats'' |Arch Deans | |- |''The Dove'' | |Producer |- |1976 |''The Omen'' |Robert Thorn | |- |1977 |''MacArthur'' |General Douglas MacArthur | Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |- |1978 |''The Boys from Brazil'' |Josef Mengele | Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |- |1980 |''The Sea Wolves: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse'' |Col. Lewis Pugh | |- |1982 |''The Blue and the Gray'' |Abraham Lincoln | |- |1983 |''The Scarlet and the Black'' |Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty | |- |1984 |''Terror in the Aisles'' | |Documentary. Archival footage. |- |1985 |''Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret'' | |Documentary |- |1986 |''Directed by William Wyler'' | |Documentary |- |1987 |''Amazing Grace and Chuck'' |President |Documentary |- |rowspan="2"|1989 |''Old Gringo'' |Ambrose Bierce | |- |''Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren'' |Narrator |Documentary |- |rowspan="3"|1991 |''Other People's Money'' |Andrew Jorgenson | |- |''Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days'' |Narrator |Documentary |- |''Cape Fear'' |Lee Heller | |- |1993 |''The Portrait'' |Gardner Church | |- |1994 |''L'Hidato Shel Adolf Eichmann'' |Narrator |Documentary |- |1996 |''Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick'' | |Documentary |- |1998 |''Moby Dick |Father Mapple |TV Miniseries Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film |- |rowspan="2"|1999 |''The Art of Norton Simon'' |Narrator |Short subject |- |''American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith'' |Narrator | |- |2000 |''A Conversation With Gregory Peck'' |Himself |Documentary |- |}

See also[link]

List of notable Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

References[link]

Further reading[link]

Fishgall, Gary. ''Gregory Peck: A Biography''. New York: Scribner. 2002. ISBN 068485290X

Freedland, Michael. ''Gregory Peck: A Biography''. New York: William Morrow and Company. 1980. ISBN 0688036198

Haney, Lynn. ''Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life''. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. 2004. ISBN 0786714735

External links[link]

Gregory Peck - Daily Telegraph obituary

Gregory Peck in the 1920 US Census, 1930 US Census, and the Social Security Death Index.

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name	Mickey Rooney
birth name	Joseph Yule, Jr.
birth date	September 23, 1920
birth place	Brooklyn, New York
occupation	Actor, comedian, vaudevillian
years active	1922–present
spouse	Ava Gardner (m.1942-1943; divorced) B.J. Baker (m.1944-1948; divorced) Martha Vickers (m.1949-1951; divorced) Elaine Devry (m.1952-1958; divorced) Carolyn Mitchell (m.1958-1966; her death) Marge Lane (m.1966-1967; divorced) Carolyn Hockett (m.1969-1975; divorced) Jan Chamberlin (m.1978–present)
children	9 children
website	mickeyrooney.com }}

Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr.; September 23, 1920) is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He has received multiple awards, including a Juvenile Academy Award, an Honorary Academy Award, two Golden Globes and an Emmy Award. Working as a performer since he was a child, he was a superstar as a teenager for the films in which he played Andy Hardy, and he has had one of the longest careers of any actor, to date spanning 90 years actively making films in ten decades, from 1920s to 2010s. He is the last surviving male star from 1930s Hollywood. For a younger generation of fans, he gained international fame for his leading role as Henry Dailey in The Family Channel's ''The Adventures of the Black Stallion'', as well as the film itself.

Early life[link]

Rooney was born Joseph Yule, Jr. in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Joseph Yule, was from Scotland, and his mother, Nellie W. (née Carter), was from Kansas City, Missouri. Both of his parents were in vaudeville, appearing in a Brooklyn production of ''A Gaiety Girl'' when Joseph, Jr. was born. He began performing at the age of 17 months as part of his parents' routine, wearing a specially tailored tuxedo.

When he was 14 months old, unknown to everyone, he crawled onstage wearing overalls and a little harmonica around his neck. He sneezed and his father, Joe Sr., grabbed him up, introducing him to the audience as Sonny Yule. He felt the spotlight on him and has described it as his mother's womb. From that moment on, the stage was his home.

His father was a womanizer and heavy drinker, leaving the family when Joe Jr. was only three. While Joe Sr. was traveling, Joe Jr. and his mother moved from Brooklyn, New York to Kansas City, Missouri to live with his aunt. While his mother was reading the entertainment newspaper, Nellie was interested in getting Hal Roach to approach the young star to participate in the ''Our Gang'' series in Hollywood. Roach offered $5 a day to Joe Jr. while the other young stars were paid five times more.

As he was getting bit parts in films, he was working with other established film stars such as Joel McCrea, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Jean Harlow. While selling newspapers around the corner, he also entered into Hollywood Professional School, where he went to school with dozens of unfamiliar students such as: Joseph A. Wapner, Nanette Fabray, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, among many others, and later Hollywood High School, where he graduated in 1938.

Career[link]

Mickey McGuire[link]

The Yules separated in 1924 during a slump in vaudeville, and in 1925, Nell Yule moved with her son to Hollywood, California, where she managed a tourist home. Fontaine Fox had placed a newspaper ad for a dark-haired child to play the role of "Mickey McGuire" in a series of short films. Lacking the money to have her son's hair dyed, Mrs. Yule took her son to the audition after applying burnt cork to his scalp. Joe got the role and became "Mickey" for 78 of the comedies, running from 1927 to 1936, starting with ''Mickey's Circus'', released September 4, 1927. These had been adapted from the ''Toonerville Trolley'' comic strip, which contained a character named Mickey McGuire. Joe Yule briefly became Mickey McGuire legally in order to trump an attempted copyright lawsuit (if it was his legal name, the film producer Larry Darmour did not owe the comic strip writers royalties). His mother also changed her surname to McGuire in an attempt to bolster the argument, but the film producers lost. The litigation settlement awarded damages to the owners of the cartoon character, as well as compelled the twelve-year-old actor to refrain from calling himself by the name Mickey McGuire on and off screen.

Rooney later claimed that, during his Mickey McGuire days, he met cartoonist Walt Disney at the Warner Brothers studio, and that Disney was inspired to name Mickey Mouse after him, although Disney always said that he had changed the name from "Mortimer Mouse" to "Mickey Mouse" on the suggestion of his wife.

During an interruption in the series in 1932, Mrs. Yule made plans to take her son on a ten-week vaudeville tour as McGuire, and Fox sued successfully to stop him from using the name. Mrs. Yule suggested the stage name of Mickey Looney for her comedian son, which he altered slightly to Rooney, a less frivolous version. Rooney did other films in his adolescence, including several more of the McGuire films, and signed with MGM in 1934. MGM cast Rooney as the teenage son of a judge in 1937's ''A Family Affair'', setting Rooney on the way to another successful film series.

"Andy Hardy" and Judy Garland[link]

In 1937, Rooney was selected to portray Andy Hardy in ''A Family Affair'' (1937), which MGM had planned as a B-movie. Rooney provided comic relief as the son of Judge James K. Hardy, portrayed by Lionel Barrymore (although Lewis Stone would play the role of Judge Hardy in later films). The film was an unexpected success, and led to 13 more ''Andy Hardy'' films between 1937 and 1946, and a final film in 1958. Rooney also received top billing as "Shockey Carter" in ''Hoosier Schoolboy'' (1937).

Also in 1937, Mickey made his first film alongside Judy Garland with ''Thoroughbreds Don't Cry''. Garland and Rooney became close friends and a successful song and dance team. Besides three of the Andy Hardy films, where she portrayed Betsy Booth, a younger girl with a crush on Andy, they appeared together in a string of successful musicals, including the Oscar-nominated ''Babes in Arms'' (1939). During an interview in the documentary film ''When the Lion Roars'', Rooney describes their friendship:

Rooney's breakthrough role as a dramatic actor came in 1938's ''Boys Town'' opposite Spencer Tracy as Whitey Marsh, which opened shortly before his 18th birthday. Rooney was awarded a special Juvenile Academy Award in 1939 and was named the biggest box-office draw in 1939, 1940 and 1941. Unquestionably a well-known entertainer by the early 1940s, Rooney, with Garland, was one of many celebrities caricatured in Tex Avery's 1941 Warner Bros. cartoon ''Hollywood Steps Out''. As of 2012, Rooney is the only surviving entertainer depicted in the cartoon. In 1991, Rooney was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award recognizing his achievements within the film industry as a child actor. After presenting the award to Rooney, the foundation subsequently renamed the accolade "The Mickey Rooney Award" in his honor.

After the war[link]

In 1944, Rooney entered military service. He served more than 21 months, until shortly after the end of World War II. During and after the war he helped entertain the troops in America and Europe, and spent part of the time as a radio personality on the American Forces Network and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for entertaining troops in combat zones. In addition to the Bronze Star Medal, Rooney also received the Army Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, and World War Two Victory Medal for his military service.

After his return to civilian life, his career slumped. He appeared in a number of films, including ''Words and Music'' in 1948, which paired him for the last time with Garland on film (he appeared with her on one episode as a guest on her CBS variety series in 1963). He briefly starred in a CBS radio series, ''Shorty Bell'', in the summer of 1948, and reprised his role as "Andy Hardy", with most of the original cast, in a syndicated radio version of ''The Hardy Family'' in 1949 and 1950 (repeated on Mutual during 1952).

His first television series, ''The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan'' (created by Blake Edwards with Rooney as his own producer), appeared on NBC television for thirty-two episodes between August 28, 1954 and June 4, 1955. In 1951, he directed a feature film for Columbia Pictures, ''My True Story'' starring Helen Walker. Rooney also starred as a ragingly egomaniacal television comedian in the live 90-minute television drama ''The Comedian'', in the ''Playhouse 90'' series on the evening of Valentine's Day in 1957, and as himself in a revue called ''The Musical Revue of 1959'' based on the 1929 film ''The Hollywood Revue of 1929'' which was edited into a film in 1960, by British International Pictures.

In 1958, Rooney joined Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in hosting an episode of NBC's short-lived ''Club Oasis'' comedy and variety show. In 1960, Rooney directed and starred in ''The Private Lives of Adam and Eve'', an ambitious comedy known for its multiple flashbacks and many cameos. In the 1960s, Rooney returned to theatrical entertainment. He still accepted film roles in undistinguished films, but occasionally would appear in better works, such as ''Requiem for a Heavyweight'' (1962), ''It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'' (1963), and ''The Black Stallion'' (1979). One of Rooney's more controversial roles came in the highly acclaimed 1961 film ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' where he played a stereotyped buck-toothed myopic Japanese neighbor (Mr. Yunioshi) of the main character, Holly Golightly. Despite Rooney's protests that he was congratulated for the role by Asians, that role would later be held up as one of the most notorious examples of Hollywood's history of stereotypical depictions of that racial group, evidenced in the film ''Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story'' when future Asian-American film star, Bruce Lee, was deeply offended seeing the film.

On December 31, 1961, he appeared on television's ''What's My Line'' and mentioned that he had already started enrolling students in the MRSE (Mickey Rooney School of Entertainment). His school venture never came to fruition, but for several years he was a spokesman/partner in Pennsylvania's Downingtown Inn, a country club and golf resort.

In 1966, while Rooney was working on the film ''Ambush Bay'' in the Philippines, his wife Barbara Ann Thomason (akas: Tara Thomas, Carolyn Mitchell), a former pin-up model and aspiring actress who had won 17 straight beauty contests in Southern California, was found dead in their bed. Beside her was her lover, Milos Milos, an actor friend of Rooney's. Detectives ruled it murder-suicide, which was committed with Rooney's own gun.

Rooney was awarded an Academy Juvenile Award in 1938, and in 1983 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted him their Academy Honorary Award for his lifetime of achievement. He was mentioned in the 1972 song "Celluloid Heroes" by The Kinks: ''"If you stomped on Mickey Rooney/ He'd still turn round and smile..."''

Character actor[link]

In addition to his movie roles, Rooney made numerous guest-starring roles as a character actor for nearly six decades, beginning with an episode of ''Celanese Theatre''. The part led to other roles on such television series as ''Schlitz Playhouse'', ''Playhouse 90'', ''Producers' Showcase'', ''Alcoa Theatre'', ''Wagon Train'', ''G.E. True Theater'', ''Hennesey'', ''The Dick Powell Theatre'', ''Arrest and Trial'', ''Burke's Law'', ''Combat!'', ''The Fugitive'', ''Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre'', ''The Jean Arthur Show'', ''The Name of the Game'', ''Dan August'', ''Night Gallery'', ''The Love Boat'', ''Kung Fu: The Legend Continues'', among many others.

Television, stage and ''The Black Stallion''[link]

Rooney made a successful transition to television and stage work. In 1961, he guest starred in the 13-week James Franciscus adventure–drama television series ''The Investigators'' on CBS. In 1963, he even entered ''The Twilight Zone'', giving a one-man performance in the episode "The Last Night of a Jockey". In 1964, he launched another half-hour sitcom, ''Mickey'', on ABC. The story line had "Mickey" operating a resort hotel in southern California. Son Tim Rooney appeared as Rooney's teenaged son on the program, and Emmaline Henry starred as Rooney's wife. It lasted 17 episodes, ending primarily due to the suicide of co-star Sammee Tong in October 1964.

He won a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for his role in 1981's ''Bill''. Playing opposite Dennis Quaid, Rooney's character was a mentally challenged man attempting to live on his own after leaving an institution. He reprised his role in 1983's ''Bill: On His Own'', earning an Emmy nomination for the role.

Rooney did the voices for four Christmas TV animated/stop action specials: ''Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town'' (1970), ''The Year Without a Santa Claus'' (1974), ''Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July'' (1979), and ''A Miser Brothers' Christmas'' (2008) — always playing Santa Claus. In 1970, he was approached by television producer Norman Lear to consider taking on the role of Archie Bunker in the upcoming CBS series, ''All in the Family''. Like Jackie Gleason before him, Mickey rejected the role, which ultimately went to Carroll O'Connor.

He continued to work on stage and television through the 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the acclaimed stage play ''Sugar Babies'' with Ann Miller beginning in 1979. He also starred in the short-lived sitcom, ''One of the Boys'', along with 2 unfamiliar young stars, Dana Carvey and Nathan Lane, in 1982. He toured Canada in a dinner theatre production of ''The Mind with the Naughty Man'' in the mid-1990s. He played The Wizard in a stage production of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' with Eartha Kitt at Madison Square Garden. Kitt was later replaced by Jo Anne Worley. In 1995 he starred with Charlton Heston, Peter Graves and Deborah Winters in the Warren Chaney docudrama ''America: A Call to Greatness''. He also appeared in the documentary ''That's Entertainment! III''.

Rooney voiced Mr. Cherrywood in ''The Care Bears Movie'' (1985), and starred as the Movie Mason in a Disney Channel Original Movie family film 2000's ''Phantom of the Megaplex''. He had a guest spot on an episode of ''The Golden Girls'' as Sophia's boyfriend "Rocko", who claimed to be a bank robber. He voiced himself in the ''Simpsons'' episode "Radioactive Man" of 1995. In 1996–97, Mickey played Talbut on the TV series, Kleo The Misfit Unicorn produced by Gordon Stanfield Animation (GSA). He co-starred in ''Night at the Museum'' in 2006 with Dick Van Dyke and Ben Stiller.

After starring in one unsuccessful TV series and for turning down an offer on a huge TV series, Rooney finally hit the jackpot, at 70, when he was offering a starring role on The Family Channel's, ''The Adventures of the Black Stallion'', where he reprised his role as Henry Dailey from the film of the same name, eleven years earlier. The show was based on a novel by Walter Farley. For this role, he had to travel all the way to Vancouver. Just like the film itself, the ''Black Stallion'' TV series, Rooney became one of the most beloved stars, that the show itself became an immediate hit with teenagers, young adults and people all over the world. The show was also seen in 70 countries. It also lost out to ''Harry and the Hendersons'', when the show was nominated for a Young Artist Award in the "Best Off-Prime Time or Cable Family Series" category.

Also starring on ''Black Stallion'' were Docs Keepin Time who played "The Black Stallion", but did not have a voice part in the series, despite appearing in every episode of the series, with an unfamiliar Canadian high school student, a fan of Rooney's films, a voice-over actor, a future acting instructor, and online radio host, Richard Ian Cox, in the role of Henry's teenaged traveler, Alec Ramsay. The on- and off-screen chemistry between Rooney and Cox was an immediate success story of 1990s television. Richard also had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with Mickey's real-life family, when not filming. For its three seasons on air, Rooney was nominated for a Gemini Award in the category of "Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role", but didn't win. By the end of the third season, Black Stallion's ratings were declining, the show was cancelled in 1993, after three seasons and 78 episodes.

In December 2009, he appeared as a guest to a dinner party hosted by David Gest on ''Come Dine With Me''.

Current work[link]

Rooney appeared in television commercials for Garden State Life Insurance Company in 1999, alongside his wife Jan Rooney. In commercials shown in 2007, he can be seen in the background washing imaginary dishes.

In 2003, Rooney and his wife began their association with Rainbow Puppet Productions, providing their voices to the 100th Anniversary production of "Toyland!" an adaptation of Victor Herbert's ''Babes in Toyland''. He created the voice for the Master Toymaker while Jan provided the voice for Mother Goose. Since that time, they have created voices for additional Rainbow Puppet Productions including "Pirate Party" which also features vocal performances by Carol Channing. Both productions continue to tour theaters across the country.

He continues to work in film and tours with his wife in a multi-media live stage production called ''Let's Put On a Show!'' His first performance of this show after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack was in Bend, Oregon, in which Mickey and Jan requested the show begin with the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner" by Jan offstage with only the American Flag visible on stage.

On May 26, 2007, he was grand marshal at the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival. Rooney made his British pantomime debut, playing Baron Hardup in Cinderella, at the Sunderland Empire Theatre over the 2007 Christmas period, a role he reprised in 2009 at the Milton Keynes theatre.

In 2008, Rooney starred as Chief, a wise old ranch owner, in the independent family feature film ''Lost Stallions: The Journey Home'', marking a return to starring in equestrian-themed productions for the first time since the 1990s TV show ''Adventures of the Black Stallion''. Even though they've acted together before, ''Lost Stallions: The Journey Home'' is the sole film to date in which he and Jan portrayed a married couple on screen.

Rooney made a brief cameo appearance in ''The Muppets'', making his career span 10 decades.

Personal life[link]

Rooney has been married 8 times. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was often the subject of comedians' jokes for his alleged inability to stay married. He is currently married to Jan Chamberlin. He has 9 children from his eight marriages, as well as nineteen grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. In 1942, he married Hollywood starlet Ava Gardner, but the two were divorced well before she became a star in her own right. While stationed in the military in Alabama in 1944, Rooney met and married local beauty queen Betty Jane Phillips. This marriage ended in divorce after he returned from Europe at the end of World War II. His subsequent marriages to Martha Vickers (1949) and Elaine Mahnken (1952) were also short-lived and ended in divorce. In 1958, Rooney married Barbara Ann Thomason, but tragedy struck when she was murdered in 1966. Falling into deep depression, he married Barbara's friend, Marge Lane, who helped him take care of his young children. The marriage lasted only 100 days. He was married to Carolyn Hockett from 1969 to 1974, but financial instability ended the relationship. Finally, in 1978, Rooney married Jan Chamberlin, his 8th wife. , they live in Westlake Village, California. Mickey is an outspoken advocates for veterans and senior rights.

Rooney's oldest child Mickey Rooney, Jr. is a born-again Christian. He and several of Rooney's other eight children have worked at various times in show business. One of them, actor Tim Rooney, died in 2006 on Mickey's birthday at the age of 59.

On September 23, 2010, Rooney celebrated his 90th birthday at Feinstein's at Loews Regency in the Upper East Side of New York City. Among the people who were attending the party were: Donald Trump, Regis Philbin, Nathan Lane and Tony Bennett. In December 2010 he was honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month.

On February 16, 2011, Rooney was granted a temporary restraining order against Christopher Aber. Christopher is the oldest of Jan Rooney's two sons from a previous marriage. Many press releases state that the restraining order included Mickey Rooney, Jan's son Mark Rooney, who is currently Mickey's caregiver, and wife Jan Rooney. Public record states that the restraining order in fact included Mickey Rooney, Mark Rooney and Mark's wife Charlene Rooney. Jan Rooney was not included in the restraining order and has publicly denied any abuse in defense of her son Christopher. On March 2, 2011 Rooney appeared before a special US Senate committee that was considering legislation to curb elder abuse. Rooney stated that he was financially abused by unnamed family members. On March 27, 2011, all of Rooney's finances were permanently handed over to lawyers over the claim of missing money.

In April 2011, the temporary restraining order that Rooney was previously granted was replaced by a confidential settlement between Rooney and his stepson. Christopher Aber and Jan Rooney have denied all the allegations.

Marriages[link]

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! Name !! Years !! Children
Ava Gardner	1942–1943
		Mickey Rooney, Jr. (born July 3, 1945)
Tim Rooney (January 4, 1947 – September 23, 2006)
Martha Vickers	1949–1951	Theodore Michael Rooney (born April 13, 1950)
Elaine Devry	1952–1958
		Kelly Ann Rooney (born September 13, 1959)
Kerry Rooney (born December 30, 1960)
Kimmy Sue Rooney (born September 13, 1963)
Marge Lane	1966–1967
		Jimmy Rooney (adopted from Carolyn's previous marriage) (born 1966)
Jonelle Rooney (born January 11, 1970)
	1978–present

Filmography[link]

Selected films[link]

This is a selected list of Rooney's full-length films, both theatrical and made for television.

! Year !! Title
1927	''Orchids and Ermine''
	''The Beast of the City''
''Sin's Pay Day''
''High Speed''
''Fast Companions''
''My Pal, the King''
''Officer Thirteen''
	''The Big Cage''
''The Life of Jimmy Dolan''
''The Big Chance''
''The Chief''
''The World Changes''
	''Beloved''
''The Lost Jungle''
''I Like It That Way''
''Manhattan Melodrama''
''Love Birds''
''Half a Sinner''
''Hide-Out''
''Blind Date''
''Death on the Diamond''
	''The County Chairman''
''Down the Stretch''
''The Devil is a Sissy''
''Hoosier Schoolboy''
''Live, Love and Learn''
''Thoroughbreds Don't Cry''
''You're Only Young Once''
	''Love Is a Headache''
''Judge Hardy's Children''
''Hold That Kiss''
''Lord Jeff''
''Love Finds Andy Hardy''
''Stablemates''
''Out West with the Hardys''
''The Hardys Ride High''
''Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever''
''Judge Hardy and Son''
	''Young Tom Edison''
''Andy Hardy Meets Debutante''
	''Andy Hardy's Private Secretary''
''Men of Boys Town''
''Life Begins for Andy Hardy''
''Babes on Broadway''
	''The Courtship of Andy Hardy''
''A Yank at Eton''
''Andy Hardy's Double Life''

! Year !! Title
''Thousands Cheer''
	''Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble''
1946	''Love Laughs at Andy Hardy''
1947	''Killer McCoy''
1949
''The Fireball''
''He's a Cockeyed Wonder''
	''My Outlaw Brother''
1952
''All Ashore''
''A Slight Case of Larceny''
	''Drive a Crooked Road''
''The Atomic Kid''
	''The Bridges at Toko-Ri''
''The Twinkle in God's Eye''
	''The Bold and the Brave''
''Magnificent Roughnecks''
	''Operation Mad Ball''
	''A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed''
''Andy Hardy Comes Home''
	''The Big Operator''
''The Last Mile''
	''Platinum High School''
	''King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein''
''Everything's Ducky''
1962	''Requiem for a Heavyweight''
1963	''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World''
1964	''The Secret Invasion''
	''Twenty-Four Hours to Kill''
''How to Stuff a Wild Bikini''
	''The Devil In Love''
''Ambush Bay''
1968
	''The Extraordinary Seaman''
''The Comic''
''80 Steps to Jonah''
	''Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County''
	''Mooch Goes to Hollywood''
''The Manipulator''
	''Evil Roy Slade''
1973	''The Godmothers''
	''Thunder County''
''Rachel's Man''
''Journey Back to Oz'' (voice)
''The Year Without a Santa Claus'' (voice)
	''Ace of Hearts''
''From Hong Kong with Love''
1976	''Find the Lady''

Year !! Title
	''The Domino Principle''
''Pete's Dragon''
1978	''The Magic of Lassie''
''Arabian Adventure''
''Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (voice)''
''Odyssey of the Pacific''
1982	''The Emperor of Peru''
1983	''Bill: On His Own''
1984	''It Came Upon the Midnight Clear''
1985	''The Care Bears Movie'' (voice)
1986	''Lightning, the White Stallion''
1988	''Bluegrass''
	''Erik the Viking''
''Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland''
	1990	''Home For Christmas''
1991
	''The Milky Life''
''Sweet Justice''
''Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker''
''Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland''
''Maximum Force''
1993	''The Legend of Wolf Mountain''
	''Revenge of the Red Baron''
''The Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart''
''Making Waves''
1995	''America: A Call to Greatness''
1997	''Killing Midnight''
	''The Face on the Barroom Floor''
''Animals and the Tollkeeper''
''Michael Kael vs. the World News Company''
''Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights''
''Babe: Pig in the City''
	''Holy Hollywood''
''The First of May''
	''Internet Love''
''Phantom of the Megaplex''
2001	''Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure'' (voice)
2002	''Topa Topa Bluffs''
2003	''Paradise''
	''Strike the Tent''
''A Christmas Too Many''
	''The Thirsting''
''To Kill a Mockumentary''
''Night at the Museum''
	''The Yesterday Pool''
''Bamboo Shark''
	''Lost Stallions: The Journey Home''
''A Miser Brothers' Christmas'' (voice)
2010	''Gerald''
2011

Short subjects[link]

! Year !! Title
1926	''Not to Be Trusted''
	'' Mickey's Circus''
''Mickey's Pals''
''Mickey's Eleven''
''Mickey's Battles''
	''Mickey's Parade''
''Mickey in School''
''Mickey's Nine''
''Mickey's Little Eva''
''Mickey's Wild West''
''Mickey in Love''
''Mickey's Triumph''
''Mickey's Babies''
''Mickey's Movies''
''Mickey's Rivals''
''Mickey the Detective''
''Mickey's Athletes''
''Mickey's Big Game Hunt''
	''Mickey's Great Idea''
''Mickey's Menagerie''
''Mickey's Last Chance''
''Mickey's Brown Derby''
''Mickey's Northwest Mounted''
''Mickey's Initiation''
''Mickey's Midnite Follies''
''Mickey's Surprise''
''Mickey's Mix-Up''
''Mickey's Big Moment''
''Mickey's Strategy''

! Year !! Title
	''Mickey's Champs''
''Mickey's Explorers''
''Mickey's Master Mind''
''Mickey's Luck''
''Mickey's Whirlwinds''
''Mickey's Warriors''
''Mickey the Romeo''
''Mickey's Merry Men''
''Mickey's Winners''
''Screen Snapshots'' Series 9, No. 24
''Mickey's Musketeers''
''Mickey's Bargain''
	''Mickey's Stampede''
''Mickey's Crusaders''
''Mickey's Rebellion''
''Mickey's Diplomacy''
''Mickey's Wildcats''
''Mickey's Thrill Hunters''
''Mickey's Helping Hand''
''Mickey's Sideline''
	''Mickey's Busy Day''
''Mickey's Travels''
''Mickey's Holiday''
''Mickey's Big Business''
''Mickey's Golden Rule''
''Mickey's Charity''

! Year !! Title
	''Mickey's Ape Man''
''Mickey's Race''
''Mickey's Big Broadcast''
''Mickey's Disguises''
''Mickey's Touchdown''
''Mickey's Tent Show''
''Mickey's Covered Wagon''
	''Mickey's Minstrels''
''Mickey's Rescue''
''Mickey's Medicine Man''
1935	''Pirate Party on Catalina Isle''
1937	''Cinema Circus''
1938	''Andy Hardy's Dilemma''
1940	''Rodeo Dough''
1941	''Meet the Stars #4'': Variety Reel #2
1943	''Show Business at War''
1947	''Screen Snapshots: Out of This World'' Series
1953	''Screen Snapshots: Mickey Rooney – Then and Now''
1958	''Screen Snapshots: Glamorous Hollywood''
1968	''Vienna''
1974	''Just One More Time''
1975	''The Lion Roars Again''
2008	''Wreck the Halls''

Television[link]

Rooney has made countless appearances in TV sitcoms and television films. He has also lent his voice to many animation films. Only his most important work is listed in this section.

! Year(s) !! Title
1954–1955	''The Mickey Rooney Show'': ''Hey Mulligan''
1957
1964–1965
1981
1982	''One of the Boys'' (canceled after 13 episodes)
1983	''Bill: On His Own'' (sequel to 1981's "Bill" nominated for Emmy)
1990–1993	''The Adventures of the Black Stallion''

Awards[link]

Academy Juvenile AwardAcademy AwardAcademy AwardAcademy AwardEmmy AwardLaurel AwardEmmy Award rowspan=3Laurel AwardGolden GlobeAcademy AwardEmmy AwardGolden GlobeAcademy AwardEmmy AwardGemini AwardYoung Artist AwardGiffoni Film Festival Pocono Mountains Film Festival

Year !! Award !! Category !! Nominated Work / Honor !! Result
1938	Academy Award	|	(With Deanna Durbin)"For their significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth, and as juvenile players setting a high standard of ability and achievement."
1939	|	Academy Award for Best Actor>Best Actor in a Leading Role	Babes in Arms (film)>Babes in Arms''
1943	|	Academy Award for Best Actor>Best Actor in a Leading Role	The Human Comedy (film)>The Human Comedy''
1956	|	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor>Best Actor in a Supporting Role	''The Bold and the Brave''
1957	|	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie>Best Single Performance in a Leading or Supporting Role	''Playhouse 90''
1957	|	Top Male Action Star	Baby Face Nelson (film)>Baby Face Nelson''
1958	|	Best Single Performance	''Alcoa Theatre''
rowspan=3	1960	Hollywood Walk of Fame ||	List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame>Star of Motion Picture	Star at 1718 Vine Street
List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame	Star of Television	Star at 6372 Hollywood Boulevard
List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame	Star of Radio	Star at 6541 Hollywood Boulevard
1962	|	Top Male Supporting Performance	''Requiem for a Heavyweight''
1964	|	Best TV Star – Male	Mickey (TV series)>Mickey''
1980	|	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor>Best Actor in a Supporting Role	The Black Stallion (film)>The Black Stallion''
1981	|	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie>Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Special	Bill (TV movie)>Bill''
1981	|	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film>Best Actor in a TV Mini-Series or Motion Picture	Bill (TV movie)>Bill''
1983	|	Academy Honorary Award	"In recognition of his 50 years of versatility in a variety of memorable film performances."
1983	|	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie>Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Special	''Bill: On His Own''
1991	|	Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role>Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role	''The Adventures of the Black Stallion''
1991	|	Young Artist Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award>Former Child Star Award	(Subsequently renamed "Young Artist Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award>The Mickey Rooney Award")
1996	|	François Truffaut Award	—
2004	|	Lifetime Achievement Award	—

References[link]

Further reading[link]

Rooney, Mickey (1991). ''Life Is Too Short''. (New York: Random House)

Marx, Arthur (1988/reprint). ''The Nine Lives Of Mickey Rooney''. (New York: Berkley Publishing Group)

External links[link]

mickeyrooney.com, Official Site Of Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney on the Phil Silvers Show

"Mickey Rooney on America, Christ and Judy Garland: The Hollywood Legend Speaks Out." ''Montreal Mirror'' interview 1998

Mickey Rooney at Virtual History

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name	George Raft
birth date	September 26, 1901
birth place	New York City, New York, U.S.
death date	November 24, 1980
death place	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
birth name	George Ranft
occupation	Actor
years active	1929–1978
spouse	Grace Mulrooney (1923-1970; her death) }}

George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas (mob films) of the 1930s and 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, today George Raft is mostly known for his gangster roles in Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy ''Some Like it Hot'', the original ''Scarface'' (1932), and ''Each Dawn I Die'' (1939), and as a dancer in ''Bolero'' (1934) and a truck driver in ''They Drive by Night'' (1940). Raft's real-life association with the New York mob gave his on-screen image an added realism.

Early life[link]

Raft was born on September 26, 1901 in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, the son of Eva (Glockner) and Conrad Ranft. His father was born in Massachusetts, to German immigrant parents, and his mother was a German immigrant. His parents were married on November 17, 1895 in Manhattan, and his sister, Eva, known as "Katie" was born on April 18, 1896. Although Raft's birth year has been reported to be 1895, the 1900 Census for New York City lists his elder sister, Katie, as his parents' only child with two children born and only one living. On the 1910 Census, he is listed as being 8 years old, and his birth record can be found in the New York City birth index as being 1901. A boyhood friend of gangster Owney Madden (and later a "wheel man" for the mob"), Raft admittedly narrowly avoided a life of crime. Raft spoke German fluently, having learned the language from his parents.

Dancer[link]

As a young man he showed aptitude in dancing which, with his elegant fashion sense, enabled him to gain employment as a dancer in New York City nightclubs, often in the same venues as Rudolph Valentino before Valentino became a movie actor. Raft became part of the stage act of flamboyant speakeasy hostess Texas Guinan and his success led him to Broadway where he again worked as a dancer. Raft later made a semi-autobiographical film called ''Broadway'' (1942) about this period in which he plays himself. He also worked in London as a chorus boy in the early 1920s. Fred Astaire, in his autobiography ''Steps in Time'' (1959), says Raft was a lightning-fast dancer and did "the fastest Charleston I ever saw."

Vi Kearney, later a dancer in shows for Charles Cochran and Andre Charlot, was quoted as saying: }}

Gangster icon[link]

In 1929, Raft relocated to Hollywood and took small roles. In ''Taxi!'' (1932) with James Cagney and Loretta Young, Raft has a colorful unbilled dancing role as Cagney's competitor in a dance contest who wins only to be knocked down by Cagney's loonily pugnacious character. His big break came later that same year as the nickel-flipping second lead alongside Paul Muni's raging killer in ''Scarface'' (1932), and Raft's convincing portrayal led to speculation that Raft was a gangster. Due to his life-long friendship with Owney Madden, Raft was a friend or acquaintance of several other crime figures, including Bugsy Siegel and Siegel's old friend Meyer Lansky. When Gary Cooper's romantic escapades put him on one gangster's hit list, Raft reportedly interceded and persuaded the mobster to spare Cooper. Orson Welles explained to Peter Bogdanovich in their interview book ''This is Orson Welles'' that, as Raft's career accelerated, the actor was particularly an idol and role model for actual gangsters of the period in terms of dress and attitude. He was one of the three most popular gangster actors of the 1930s, with James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson; Raft ranked far above Humphrey Bogart in fame and boxoffice clout throughout the decade. When the studio refused to hire Texas Guinan, the performer upon whom one of the movie's characters was based, because of her age, Raft advocated for the casting of his friend, Mae West, in a supporting role in his first film as leading man, ''Night After Night'' (1932), which launched her movie career. Raft appeared the following year in Raoul Walsh's energetic period piece ''The Bowery'' as Steve Brodie, supposedly the first man to jump off Brooklyn Bridge and survive, with Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray and Pert Kelton. Raft memorably dances into the picture in his opening scene wearing a derby.

Some of his other movies include ''If I Had A Million'' (1932; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check), ''Bolero'' (1934; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster), ''Limehouse Blues'' (1934; with Anna May Wong), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's ''The Glass Key'' (1935; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's ''The Maltese Falcon''), ''Souls at Sea'' (1937; with Gary Cooper), ''Spawn of the North'' (1938; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore), two with Humphrey Bogart: ''Invisible Stripes'' (1939) and ''They Drive by Night'' (1940), with Bogart in supporting roles, ''Each Dawn I Die'' (1939; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison), and ''Manpower'' (1941; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich). Although Raft received third billing in ''Manpower'', he played the lead.

Unexpected career decline[link]

The years 1940 and 1941 proved to be Raft's career peak. He went into a gradual professional decline over the next decade, in part due to turning down some of the most-famous roles in movie history, notably Raoul Walsh's ''High Sierra'' and ''The Maltese Falcon''; both roles unexpectedly transformed Humphrey Bogart from supporting player to a major force in Hollywood in 1941. Raft understandably chose Raoul Walsh's ''Manpower'' over ''The Maltese Falcon'' because the latter film's director, John Huston, had never directed before and a racier pre-Code version of the film already existed. Raft was also reported to have turned down Bogart's role in ''Casablanca'' (1942), although according to some Warner Bros. memos, this story is apocryphal.

Following the release of the espionage thriller ''Background to Danger'' (1943), a film intended to capitalize on the success of ''Casablanca'', Raft demanded termination of his Warner Brothers contract. Jack Warner was prepared to pay Raft a $10,000 settlement, but the actor either misunderstood or was so eager to be free of the studio that it was he who gave Warner a check in that amount. Raft is widely believed to have been functionally illiterate, which could account for the confusion.

Raft's career as a leading man continued through the 1940s with films of gradually declining quality and his career spiraled steadily downward as a result until the iconic star was finally limited as a box office draw.

During the 1950s he was reduced to working as a greeter at the Capri Casino in Havana, Cuba, where he was part owner along with Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante. In 1953, Raft also starred as Lt. George Kirby in a syndicated television series police drama titled ''I'm the Law'', which ran for one season and was one of the earliest instances of a movie star of his previous calibre accepting the lead in a TV series. Raft wound up occasionally accepting supporting roles in movies, such as playing second fiddle to Robert Taylor in ''Rogue Cop'' (1954).

He satirized his gangster image with a well-received supporting performance in ''Some Like it Hot'' (1959), but this did not lead to a comeback, and he spent the remainder of the decade making films in Europe. He played a small role as a casino owner in ''Ocean's 11'' (1960) opposite the Rat Pack. His final film appearances were in ''Sextette'' (1978), reunited with Mae West in a cameo, and ''The Man with Bogart's Face'' (1980).

Ray Danton played Raft in ''The George Raft Story'' (1961), which co-starred Jayne Mansfield. Raft himself excoriated the movie's inaccuracies upon its release.

In the 1991 biographical movie ''Bugsy'', the character of George Raft was played by Joe Mantegna.

Raft has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for contributions to Motion Pictures at 6150 Hollywood Boulevard, and for Television at 1500 Vine St.

Personal life[link]

Raft married Grayce Mulrooney, several years his senior, in 1923, long before his stardom. The pair separated soon thereafter, but Grayce, a devout Catholic, refused to grant Raft a divorce, and he remained married to and supported her until her death in 1970. A romantic figure in Hollywood, Raft had love affairs with Betty Grable, Marlene Dietrich, and Mae West. He stated publicly that he wanted to marry Norma Shearer, with whom he had a long romance, but his wife's refusal to allow a divorce eventually caused Shearer to end the affair.

Raft is widely believed to have been unable to read or write and had his film scripts read to him.

According to late actor Forrest Tucker, Raft's penis measured over 12 inches.

In 1965, Raft was indicted for, and pled guilty to, income tax evasion and could have ended his life behind bars, but the court proved merciful when he wept before the judge, begging that he not be sent to prison, and he was sentenced to probation.

In 1967 he was denied entry into the United Kingdom (where he had been installed as Casino Director at a casino known as the "Colony Club") due to his underworld associations.

Death[link]

Raft died from leukemia at age 79 in Los Angeles, California, on November 24, 1980. Two days earlier, Mae West had died and their bodies were at one point alongside each other in the hallway of the same mortuary at the same time. Raft was interred in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Filmography[link]

''Queen of the Night Clubs'' (1929) with Texas Guinan

''Gold Diggers of Broadway'' (1929)

''Side Street'' (1929) with Tom Moore, Owen Moore, and Matt Moore (Raft unbilled dancer)

''Quick Millions'' (1931) with Spencer Tracy and Marguerite Churchill

''Goldie'' (1931) with Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow

''Hush Money'' (1931) with Joan Bennett and Myrna Loy

''Palmy Days'' (1931) with Eddie Cantor

''Scarface'' (1932) with Paul Muni and Ann Dvorak (Raft flips the nickel in his breakthrough role)

''Love Is a Racket'' (1932) (scenes deleted)

''Madame Racketeer'' (1932) with Alison Skipworth and Richard Bennett

''Night World'' (1932) with Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, and Boris Karloff

''Dancers in the Dark'' (1932) with Miriam Hopkins

''Taxi!'' (1932) with James Cagney and Loretta Young

''Winner Take All'' (1932) with James Cagney

''Night After Night'' (1932) with Mae West as a fictionalized Texas Guinan (Raft's 1st leading role)

''Under Cover Man'' (1932) with Nancy Carroll

''If I Had a Million'' (1932; Raft plays a man on Death Row)

''Pick-Up'' (1933) with Sylvia Sidney

''The Bowery'' (1933) with Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, and Pert Kelton (Raft 2nd billed)

''The Midnight Club'' (1933) with Clive Brook (Raft 2nd billed)

''The Trumpet Blows'' (1934) with Adolphe Menjou

''All of Me'' (1934) with Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins (Raft 3rd billed)

''Bolero'' (1934) with Carole Lombard and Ray Milland (besides ''Scarface'', Raft's signature film)

''Limehouse Blues'' (1934) with Anna May Wong

''Every Night at Eight'' (1935) with Alice Faye and Frances Langford

''The Glass Key'' (1935) with Edward Arnold

''She Couldn't Take It'' (1935) with Joan Bennett

''Stolen Harmony'' (1935) with Lloyd Nolan and William Cagney

''Rumba'' (1935) with Carole Lombard

''Yours for the Asking'' (1936) with Dolores Costello and Ida Lupino

''It Had to Happen'' (1936) with Rosalind Russell

''Souls at Sea'' (1937) with Gary Cooper (Raft 2nd billed)

''You and Me'' (1938) with Sylvia Sidney (with bizarre musical interludes by Kurt Weill)

''Spawn of the North'' (1938) with Henry Fonda and John Barrymore

''I Stole a Million'' (1939) with Claire Trevor

''The Lady's from Kentucky'' (1939) with Ellen Drew

''Each Dawn I Die'' (1939) with James Cagney (Raft 2nd billed)

''The House Across the Bay'' (1940) with Joan Bennett

''They Drive by Night'' (1940) with Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Humphrey Bogart

''Invisible Stripes'' (1940) with William Holden and Humphrey Bogart

''Manpower'' (1941) with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich (Raft 3rd billed but played the lead)

''Broadway'' (1942) with Pat O'Brien and Broderick Crawford (Raft plays himself as a young B'way dancer)

''Background to Danger'' (1943) with Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre

''Stage Door Canteen'' (1943) with an all-star cast

''Follow the Boys'' (1944) with Vera Zorina

''Nob Hill'' (1945) with Joan Bennett

''Johnny Angel'' (1945) with Claire Trevor and Hoagy Carmichael

''Whistle Stop'' (1946) with Ava Gardner and Victor McLaglen

''Nocturne'' (1946)

''Mr. Ace'' (1946) with Sylvia Sidney

''Intrigue'' (1947) with June Havoc

''Christmas Eve'' (1947) with George Brent, Randolph Scott, and Joan Blondell

''Race Street'' (1948) with William Bendix and Marilyn Maxwell

''A Dangerous Profession'' (1949)

''Johnny Allegro'' (1949) with Nina Foch and Will Geer

''Outpost in Morocco'' (1949) with Marie Windsor and Akim Tamiroff

''We Shall Go to Paris'' (1949)

''Red Light'' (1949) with Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart, and Raymond Burr

''A Dangerous Profession'' (1949) with Ella Raines, Pat O'Brien, and Jim Backus

''I'll Get You For This'' (1951; AKA "Lucky Nick Cain") with Coleen Gray

''Loan Shark'' (1952) with Dorothy Hart

''Dramma nella Kasbah'' (1953; AKA "The Man From Cairo")

''I'm the Law'' (1954; 3-episode TV series)

''Black Widow'' (1954) with Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, and Gene Tierney (Raft 4th billed)

''Rogue Cop'' (1954) with Robert Taylor and Janet Leigh (Raft 3rd billed)

''A Bullet for Joey'' (1955) with Edward G. Robinson (Raft 2nd billed)

''Around the World in 80 Days'' (1956) with David Niven and Marlene Dietrich (Raft cameo)

''Jet Over the Atlantic'' (1959) with Guy Madison and Virginia Mayo (Raft 3rd billed)

''Some Like It Hot'' (1959) with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon (Raft 4th billed)

''Ocean's 11'' (1960) with the Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop)

''The Ladies Man'' (1961) with Jerry Lewis (Raft cameo)

''For Those Who Think Young'' (1964)

''The Patsy'' (1964)

''The Upper Hand'' (1966) with Jean Gabin (Raft 2nd billed)

''Five Golden Dragons'' (1967) with Robert Cummings and Klaus Kinski

''Casino Royale'' (1967)

''Skidoo'' (1968) with Jackie Gleason and Groucho Marx

''Madigan's Millions'' (1968)

''Hammersmith Is Out'' (1972) with Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Peter Ustinov

''Deadhead Miles'' (1972)

''Sextette'' (1978) with Mae West and Timothy Dalton (Raft cameo)

''The Man with Bogart's Face'' (1980)

Short Subjects:

''Hollywood on Parade No. A-9'' (1933)

''Hollywood on Parade No. B-5'' (1933)

''Hollywood on Parade No. B-8'' (1934)

''The Fashion Side of Hollywood'' (1935)

''Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 4'' (1938)

''Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941)

''Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2'' (1941)

''Hollywood Park'' (1946)

''Screen Snapshots: Vacation at Del Mar'' (1949)

Footnotes[link]

1900 United States Federal Census, Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Roll T623_1109; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 642.

1910; Census Place: Manhattan Ward 12, New York, New York; Roll T624_1025; Page: 19A; Enumeration District: 668; Image: 1104

Ancestry.com. New York City Births, 1891-1902 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

New York City Grooms Index, http://www.italiangen.org/NYCmarriageresults.asp?kind=exact&Esurname;=ranft&Efirst;=&CertNbr;=&StartYear;=&EndYear;=&B1;=Submit.

New York City Birth Index, familysearch.org, https://beta.familysearch.org/s/recordDetails/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpilot.familysearch.org%2Frecords%2Ftrk%3A%2Ffsrs%2Frr_655994601%2Fp1&hash;=MPAfKvgWGXfZ5STyuqUCQxOVNk8%253D.

Social Security Death Index, Ancestry.com.

Further reading[link]

Beaver, Jim. ''George Raft''. Films in Review, April, 1978.

Lewis, Brad. ''Hollywood's Celebrity Gangster. The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen''. Enigma Books: New York, 2007. ISBN 978-1-929631-65-0.

Parish, James Robert. ''The George Raft File: The Unauthorized Biography''. New York: Drake Publishers, 1973. ISBN 0877495203.

Wallace, Stone. ''George Raft-The Man Who Would Be Bogart''. Albany: BearManor Media, 2008. ISBN 1-59393-123-9.

Yablonsky, Lewis. ''George Raft''. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1974. ISBN 0070722358.

External links[link]

George Raft at Virtual History

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name	Victor McLaglen
birth date	December 10, 1886
birth place	Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
death date	November 07, 1959
death place	Newport Beach, California, U.S.
birth name	Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen
occupation	Actor
years active	1920–1958
spouse	Enid Lamont (1919-1942)Suzanne M. Brueggeman (1943-1948)Margaret Pumphrey (1948-1959)}}

Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was an English boxer and World War I veteran who became a successful film actor. Towards the end of his life he was naturalised as a U.S. citizen.

Early life[link]

McLaglen was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. His father, later a bishop of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England, moved the family to South Africa when McLaglen was a child. He had eight brothers and a sister. Four of his brothers also became actors: Arthur (1888–1972), an actor and sculptor, and Clifford (1892–1978), Cyril (1899–1987) and Kenneth (circa 1901-1979). Other siblings included Frederick (b. circa 1882), Sydney (b. circa 1884), Lewis (b. circa 1889), and a sister, Lily (b. circa 1893). Another brother, Leopold McLaglen, who appeared in one film, gained notoriety prior to World War I as a showman and self-proclaimed World Jujutsu Champion, who authored a book on the subject.

Before Hollywood[link]

He left home at fourteen to join the British Army with the intention of fighting in the Second Boer War. However, much to his chagrin, he was stationed at Windsor Castle with the Life Guards and was later forced to leave the army when his true age was discovered.

Four years later, he moved to Canada, where he earned a living as a wrestler and heavyweight boxer, with several notable wins in the ring. One of his most famous fights was against Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson, in a 6 round exhibition bout. This was Johnson's first bout since winning the heavyweight title from Tommy Burns. Between bouts, McLaglen toured with a circus, which offered $25 to anyone who could go three rounds with him. He returned to England in 1913 and during World War I served as a Captain (acting) with the 10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, part of The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires). Later he claimed to have served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers. He served for a time as military Provost Marshal for the city of Baghdad. He also continued boxing, and was named Heavyweight Champion of the British Army in 1918. After the war, he began taking roles in British silent films.

Film career[link]

McLaglen's career took a surprise turn in the 1920s, when he moved to Hollywood. He became a popular character actor, with a particular knack for playing drunks. He also usually played Irishmen, leading many film fans to mistakenly assume he was Irish rather than English. The highlight of his career was an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in ''The Informer'' (1935), based on a novel by Liam O'Flaherty; Frank Tashlin's 1938 cartoon ''Have You Got Any Castles?'' features a caricature of McLaglen emerging from the novel and literally informing someone about some shady characters. Near the end of his career, McLaglen was nominated again, this time for Best Supporting Actor, for his role opposite John Wayne in ''The Quiet Man'' (1952). He was especially popular with director John Ford, who frequently included McLaglen in his films. Toward the end of his career, McLaglen made several guest appearances on television, particularly in Western series such as ''Have Gun, Will Travel'' and ''Rawhide''. The episodes of those series in which McLaglen guest-starred were both directed by his son, Andrew V. McLaglen, who later was a film director.

Personal life[link]

Victor McLaglen was the elder brother of the actor Cyril McLaglen.

Victor McLaglen was married three times. His first marriage was to Enid Lamont in 1919. The couple had one daughter, Sheila, and one son, Andrew. Andrew McLaglen was a television and film director. He was also the father of Victor McLaglen's grandchildren, Mary and Josh. Mary and Josh McLaglen are both film producers and directors. Sheila's daughter, Gwyneth Horder-Payton, is a television director. Enid Lamont McLaglen died in 1942 as a result of a horse riding accident.

Victor McLaglen married twice more. His second marriage was to Suzanne M. Brueggeman. That marriage lasted from 1943 until 1948. His third and final marriage was to Margaret Pumphrey, whom he married in 1948. He remained married to Margaret, a Seattle socialite, until his death of a heart attack in 1959. He had by that time become a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Filmography[link]

! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1920	''''	Alf Truscott
1921
1921	''Corinthian Jack''	Jack Halstead
1921	''''	Frank Rosedale
1921	''''	Brett 'Dragon' Mercer
1922	''''	Bulfinch
1922	''''	Miski
1922	''''
1922	''''
1922	''Little Brother of God''	King Kennidy
1923		Nubian slave	uncredited
1923	''M'Lord of the White Road''	Lord Annerley/John
1923		Frank Wilson
1923		Tony Crabtree
1923	''''
1924	''''	Herb Harris
1924	''''	Charles Hinges
1924	''''	Squire Hardcastle
1924	''''	Ned Travers
1924	''Women and Diamonds''	Brian Owen
1925	''''	Soapy Williams
1925	''Winds of Chance''	Poleon Doret
1925	''Percy''	Reedy Jenkins
1925	''''	Quade
1925	''''	Hercules, the strongman
1926	''Men of Steel''	Pete Masarick
1926	''''	Doomsdorf
1926		Capt. Flagg
1926		Hank
1927	''''	Escamillo
1928	''''	Sailor Fritz
1928	''''	Spike Madden
1928	''Mother Machree''
1928	''Hangman's House''	Citizen Denis Hogan
1929	''Hot for Paris''	John Patrick Duke
1929	''''	Top Sergeant Flagg
1929	''Strong Boy''	Strong Boy
1929	''Captain Lash''	Captain Lash
1929	''''	Capt. Donald Gordon King
1930	''''	Jerry Maxton
1930	''On the Level''	Biff Williams
1931	''Dishonored''	Col. Kranau
1931		Scott Burrows
1931	''Annabelle's Affairs''	John Rawson aka Hefly Jack
1931	''Women of All Nations''	Capt ain Jim Flagg
1931	''''	Sergeant Flagg
1931	''Three Rogues''	Bull Stanley
1932	''Rackety Rax''	'Knucks' McGloin
1932	''Guilty as Hell''	Detective Capt. T.R. McKinley
1932	''While Paris Sleeps''	Jacques Costaud
1932	''Devil's Lottery''	Jem Meech
1932	''''	Don Bob Harkness aka El Coyote
1933		Jim Flagg
1933	''Dick Turpin''	Dick Turpin
1933	''Laughing at Life''	Dennis P. McHale aka Burke aka Captain Hale
1934	''''	Schulte
1934	''Wharf Angel''	Turk
1934	''No More Women''	Forty-Fathoms
1934	''''
1934	''Murder at the Vanities''	Police Lt. Bill Murdock
1935		Michael Donovan
1935	''''	Andrew W. 'Andy' McCabe
1935	''Under Pressure''	Jumbo Smith
1935	''''	Gypo Nolan	Academy Award for Best Actor
1936	''Magnificent Brute''	'Big Steve' Andrews	as Victor McLaglen - Academy Award Winner
1936		J.C. Doyle
1936	''Klondike Annie''	Bull Brackett
1937	''This Is My Affair''	Jock Ramsay
1937	''Nancy Steele Is Missing!''	Dannie O'Neill
1937		CPO William 'Medals' Malone
1937		Sgt. Donald MacDuff
1938	''We're Going to Be Rich''	Dobbie
1938	''Battle of Broadway''	Big Ben Wheeler
1938	''Devil's Party''	Marty Malone
1939	''''	Warden Bill Whitlock
1939		Dirk
1939	''Full Confession''	McGinnis
1939	''Captain Fury''	Jerry Black aka Blackie
1939	''Ex-Champ''	Tom 'Gunner' Grey
1939	''Pacific Liner''	J.B. 'Crusher' McKay, Chief Engineer
1939		Sgt. 'Mac' MacChesney
1939		Chris Mulligan
1940	''Diamond Frontier''	Terrence Regan
1940	''South of Pago Pago''	Bucko Larson
1941		Maurice 'Mike' Monohan
1942	''Powder Town''	Jeems O'Shea
1942	''Call Out the Marines''	Sgt. Jimmy McGinnis
1942		Major Weed
1943		Archibald Spavin (hotel doorman)
1944	''''	Captain Barrett ak The Hook
1944	''Roger Touhy, Gangster''	Herman 'Owl' Banghart
1944		Fred Adamson
1945	''Love, Honor and Goodbye''	Terry O'Farrell
1945	''Rough, Tough and Ready''	Owen McCare
1946		Gitlo
1947	''''	Captain Mike Farrell
1947	''''	Curley
1947		Matthew O'Neil
1948		Sgt. Festus Mulcahy
1949	''She Wore a Yellow Ribbon''	Top Sgt. Quincannon
1950		Sgt. Maj. Timothy Quincannon
1952	''''	Squire 'Red' Will Danaher	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1953	''Fair Wind to Java''	O'Brien
1954		Boltar
1954	''Trouble in the Glen''	Parlan
1955		Robert Emmett Donovan
1955	''City of Shadows''	Big Tim Channing
1955	''Many Rivers to Cross''	Mr. Cadmus Cherne
1955	''Lady Godiva of Coventry''	Grimald
1956		Helmsman of the 'Henrietta'
1957	''''	Tom Muldoon
1958	''Gli Italiani sono matti''
1958		Captain Bellew

See also[link]

List of bare-knuckle boxers

References[link]

External links[link]

McLaglen's Record at Cyber Boxing Zone

Photographs of Victor McLaglen

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