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• jagdeep singh

  

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  April 7, 2014 7:52 PM IST

  Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney, the child actor who became the world's top box-office star in the late 1930s, has died. He was 93.
  
  The actor, who was said to be ill for sometime died on April 6. Rooney's wife, Jan Chamberlin, said that she had not seen her husband since last April and an entertainment website informed her about his death, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
  
  Jan said Rooney was living in the Studio City home of her son Mark Aber and his wife.
  
  Born Joseph Yule Jr in Brooklyn New York City on September 23, 1920, Rooney's 87-year cinematic career stretched from 1926 to 2013.
  
  From childhood stardom to Honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement, four Oscar nominations and one Emmy Award, Rooney had appeared in more than 200 films, of which some of the films turned out to be blockbusters.
  
  Rooney was only 18-month-old when he took the stage in his parents' vaudeville act. After adopting the stage name of Mickey Rooney at the age of seven, he appeared in his first film, launching a career that would span nearly his entire life.
  
  The actor was still a teenager when he played Andy Hardy in the 1937 film A Family Affair