Mickey Carroll

Mickey Carroll ( born July 8, 1919 in St. Louis, † May 7, 2009 in Crestwood (Missouri ) ) was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz.

Life

Mickey Carroll was born Michael Finocchiaro as. He was a son of Italian immigrants and had a twin sister and four older siblings; his godfather was said to be Al Capone. In the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, he began in the age of seven with his dance training. There he made ​​the acquaintance of Jack Haley, to whom he owed his first film roles in Hollywood. Whether Carroll, who lost his father as a teenager and contribute to the family income had, as " Mickey" appeared in several Spanky -and -Our -speed impact is controversial. At the age of 17 years he worked for the radio program Call for Phillip Morris, with 18 years, he played on the side of Mae West. He completed his education during his time at MGM, along with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.

In the movie The Wizard of Oz from 1939 played the diminutive Carroll, the more than three feet at that time was just a little high but still into his fourth decade of life continued to grow, eventually reaching a size of about 1.40 m, one of the Munchkins. Carroll was to be seen there as a crier, as Munchkinsoldat and as a violinist, who accompanied Dorothy Gale on the yellow road to the Emerald City. In later years he worked again in the grave stone business his family in St. Louis, which he sold in 1996. From this time he devoted himself to charity. In 2007 he received along with six other then still living Munchkin cast a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Carroll's assets

After his death, accused Carroll's heirs, the family who had the Alzheimer's sufferers last maintained to have stolen him at least $ 500,000. You gave him not only a power of attorney to dispose of its assets, taken, but also caused him to take a $ 100,000 mortgage on the house in Bel -Nor, in which he had lived for seven decades. The investigation revealed that from January 2007, money was regularly been lifted from Carroll's bank account, a total of over $ 200,000 that Carroll had issued later checks in five-digit level and that both the yield of his paid life insurance as well as a further balances totaling over $ 100,000 had disappeared.

Carroll, who had received a pacemaker in February 2009, was moved to to the nurse in January 2009 in its budget in Crestwood, as one of his nephews, who had cerebral palsy and was then 54 years old. Carroll was not rich; it had taken him and his nephew out of pure friendship.