He was the second son of actor Mickey Rooney and suffered from a muscle disease known as dermatomyositis. Tim Rooney was born in Birmingham, Alabama. His mother was a former Mission Birmingham and singer, Betty Jane Rase, who performed as B. J. Baker.
Rooney"s notable appearances included the films Village of the Giants and Riot on Sunset Strip, and also the television series The Donald O"Connor Show, Maverick, Doctor Kildare, Gidget, Bewitched, Dragnet and the cartoon show Mister T, in voiceovers. In 1962 he co-starred as one of the children in the American Broadcasting Company comedy Room for One More. In 1964-1965, he co-starred with his father in Mickey, an American Broadcasting Company situation comedy about a family which operates a hotel in Newport Beach, California.
He played Timmy Grady.
Mickey Rooney appeared as Mickey Grady. In the mid-1960s during the hype of the MONKEES, Tim was once considered to become a new replacement Monkee when Davy Jones was facing United States induction orders.
Rooney died at the age of 59 on his father"s 86th birthday from pneumonia, complicated from the dermatomyositis.
