- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAndrew Aitken Rooney
- Andy Rooney was born in Albany in January 1919 and grew up in the Capital District (of NYS), the son of Walter and Elinor (Reynolds) Rooney. He attended Colgate Academy. In 1941, at the age of 22 he was drafted into the Army and was posted to London, where he began writing for Stars and Stripes, the US armed forces newspaper and later in the war he became one of the first US journalists to report on the Nazi concentration camps. He began working as a broadcast journalist in 1949 for CBS. He established a name for himself over many years as a correspondent and commentator. He is probably best remembered by TV audiences for his regular closing segment on 60 Minutes (1968), "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney". He died in November 2011, aged 92, having continued working until just a few weeks earlier.
- IMDb mini biography by: R.M. Sieger (updated)
- SpouseMarguerite Elizabeth Howard(March 22, 1942 - April 27, 2004) (her death, 4 children)
- ChildrenMartha A Rooney (Fishel)
- ParentsWalter Scott RooneyEllinor Reynlolds
- RelativesNancy Reynolds Rooney(Sibling)
- While a reporter for "Stars & Stripes" during WWII, Rooney covered the incident used in Steven Spielberg's The Mission (1985) episode of Amazing Stories (1985). The lower turret gunner of a B-17 is stuck in the ball (ventral) turret as the plane comes in for a belly (without wheels) landing. In real life, the ball gunner was killed on landing.
- Member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity
- Retired from 60 Minutes (1968) in October 2011 and died less than a month later.
- He won the Bronze Star for World War II reporting.
- Death is just a distant rumor to the young.
- As someone who never misses a Giants game myself, I want to talk about the IQ of football fans.
- I just wish insignificance had more stature.
- If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
- There are more beauty parlors than there are beauties.
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