FanFiltration said:

Actor Mickey Rooney dies

Actor Mickey Rooney, the pint-sized screen dynamo of the 1930s and 1940s best known for his boy-next-door role in the Andy Hardy movies, has died at 93, the TMZ celebrity website reported.

An MGM star in the 1930s and '40s, the 93-year-old's long career started as a child actor in a series of silent short comedies.

His movies included the Andy Hardy series, Captains Courageous, Boy's Town, National Velvet, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Requiem for a Heavyweight, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Black Stallion and Bill.

Rooney won two special Academy Awards as well as four nominations.

In recent years, his roles included George Miller's Babe: Pig In The City, Night at the Museum and The Muppets.

Rooney was married eight times, the first time to screen beauty Ava Gardner. Asked once if he would marry all his eight wives again, he said, "Absolutely. I loved every one of them."

Reuters

Well part of my heart just died:(

When I was a kid we didn't have a VCR and one of the few stations that would come in was PBS and at the time they played a lot of movies from the 30s-the 50s so I can honestly say I grew up watching a lot of his movies. In fact I clapped in the theater when his cameo came up in The Muppets a couple years back.

I have not felt this way since Bob Hope died.

He will be missed:(