[yarddog]

I would have guessed he was approaching 100. Not nearly as old as I thought.

I remember watching him on a tv show in the 50's probably. He played a guy named Ooftus Gooftus. It was so touching I was crying and I considered myself a tough guy.

[HitmanLV]

Rooney doing drama is pretty hot. Gleason was the same way - often identified with comedy, but great when it came to serious stuff, too.

[M. Espinola]

Mickey was Ooftus Gooftus in the one of the best police drama's of all time, 'Naked City'. It was filmed on location, well acted, gritty and realistic, it placed the viewer right at ground level in the City.

Mickey and the late Robert Strauss clown around with a model DG-7 Geiger counter in this publicity still for Republic Pictures' 1954 sci-fi film "The Atomic Kid"