Joe Yule

Ninnian Joseph Yule (30 April 1892 – 30 March 1950) was a Scottish-American burlesque and vaudeville actor who later appeared in many films as a character actor. He was noted for his starring role in the Jiggs and Maggie film series and for being the father of Hollywood star Mickey Rooney.[1]

"Joseph Yule" redirects here. For his son, the actor, see Mickey Rooney.
Joe Yule
Yule in Air Raid Wardens (1943)
Born
Ninnian Joseph Yule

30 April 1892
Glasgow, Scotland
Died30 March 1950 (aged 57)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1912–1950
Spouse(s)
Nellie W. Carter
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(m. 1910)​
ChildrenMickey Rooney

Biography

Ninnian Joseph Yule was born in the Hutchesontown district of Glasgow on 30 April 1892, the son of Elizabeth (née McKell; 1866–1919) and boiler maker Ninnian Yule (1866–1943). He emigrated to the United States with his parents on the steamship Bolivia, arriving at the Port of New York on 2 August 1892.[1] They settled in Brooklyn.[2] As a teenager, Yule performed in local vaudeville theatres and was later booked into leading burlesque wheels, including the Columbia Burlesque Wheel, where he adopted the stage name Joe Yule.

In 1919, Yule married fellow vaudevillian Nellie W. Carter, a native of Kansas City, Missouri. In 1920, while they were appearing together in a Brooklyn production of A Gaiety Girl, their son Ninnian Joseph Yule Jr. was born; he would later become a famous Hollywood actor under the name Mickey Rooney.[3] The Yules separated in 1924 during a slump in vaudeville, and Nellie moved with her son to Hollywood in 1925. Yule was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in Los Angeles on 14 May 1943.

Yule died of a heart attack on 30 March 1950 in Hollywood, California.[1] He was 57. Rooney arranged to have his father buried near Rooney's friend and longtime acting colleague, Wallace Beery, who had died the year before. He wrote, "I thought it was fitting that these two comedians should rest in peace, side by side."[4]

Filmography

References
  1. "Joe Yule, 55, Father Of Mickey Rooney". The New York Times. March 31, 1950.
  2. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=LosAngelsCANaturalization&h=1824838&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&rhSource=1629]
  3. Rooney, Mickey (1965). i.e., an Autobiography. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 63. ASIN B0007DMBBQ.
  4. Rooney, Mickey (1991). Life is Too Short. Villard Books. p. 239. ISBN 978-0679401957.
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