Background
Yule was born Ninian Joseph Ewell in the Polmadie district of Glasgow.
Yule was born Ninian Joseph Ewell in the Polmadie district of Glasgow.
He was noted for his role in the Jiggs and Maggie film series, and for being the father of Mickey Rooney. He later changed his name to Joseph Yule. Their son adopted the professional name Mickey McGuire, then Mickey Rooney.
Yule died 25 years later from a heart attack, the month before he turned 58.
"I thought it was fitting that these two comedians should rest in peace, side by side," he wrote.
Quotations: "I thought it was fitting that these two comedians should rest in peace, side by side,".