21 Brilliant Movie Talents We Lost In 2014

13. Mickey Rooney

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Rating: 1920-2014

In a career that spanned 80 years, Mickey Rooney made more than 300 films (despite a career downturn after the second world war) and was one3 of the last surviving silent film stars when he died in April. Married 8 times, his life was a tumultuous as his film career, which was typified when Laurence Olivier called him "the greatest actor of them all."

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