Biographie

Records of his death did not surface until being researched 21 years after his body was found in a hotel. He died alone.

Was divorced with a daughter at the time of his death. Found dead in a motel residence in San Diego where he was working as a taxi driver.

Was paid $37.50 per week during his first six months on the Hal Roach Studio lot in 1922. Two years later he was making $175 per week.

He could do a "horse laugh" that was recorded as a stock sound at the Hal Roach Studios and dubbed into various horses, chimps and Dinah the Mule.

Animated, freckle-faced Mickey was recommended to Hal Roach for the "Our Gang" series by still photographer Gene Kornman, a good friend of the family who was also the father of the Gang's original female member Mary Kornman.