Actor Mickey Rooney, one of Hollywood’s brightest stars in the 1930s and 1940s, died Sunday, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office said. He was 93.

Then, in 1932, Rooney broke out of his Mickey McGuire box and became Midge in the film Fast Companions. But it was his work as Andy Hardy in the 1937 film A Family Affair that shot him into stardom.

Rooney was so closely identified with the little tough guy he played in the series, he began using the name Mickey McGuire but eventually dropped the last name because of legal issues.

Mickey Rooney Dies at 93. ... his mother took him to Hollywood and got him cast in the role of Mickey McGuire in a series of 78 short films that led to his being signed to MGM at age 14.

Mickey Rooney, a celebrated child actor who embodied the All-American boy in the "Andy Hardy" films of the 1930s and '40s and became one of the era's top box-office draws, has died.

No, Mickey Rooney was not Irish, the pint-sized actor was actually born Joseph Yule, son of a Glasgow, Scotland native. Rooney died in 2014 aged 93 after a stellar career and eight marriages.

By the time he was 7, he was starring as Mickey McGuire in a series of comic shorts that would start with "Mickey's Circus" in 1927 and continue for another 77 -- yes, 77 -- films over nine years.

Mickey Rooney, one of the longest-tenured actors in movie history, died Sunday at the age of 93. ABC News. ... He gained childhood stardom in the Mickey McGuire film shorts ...