Get a closer look at some of Hollywood's perfect pairs.

Hollywood Power Couples

Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

"The Gentlemen" and "Slow Horses" return this fall, while the "Reacher" spin-off series "Neagley" makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

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.

While a reporter for &quot;Stars &amp; Stripes&quot; during WWII, Rooney covered the
incident used in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000229/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Steven Spielberg</a>&#39;s <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0511124/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">The Mission (1985)</a> episode of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0088478/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Amazing Stories (1985)</a>. 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.

Children: <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1993922/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Brian Rooney</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm3976114/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Emily Rooney</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm16649973/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Ellen Rooney</a> and Martha Rooney.

Retired from <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0123338/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">60 Minutes (1968)</a> in October 2011 and died less than a month later.

He won the Bronze Star for World War II reporting.

Father-in-law of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0130273/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Cecile Callan</a>.

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