Mickey Shaughnessy

One of the few non-Jewish performers to cut his teeth on the tourist resort circuit, Mickey Shaughnessy went on to appear in a WWII army revue, then spent the postwar years performing a nightclub comedy act. His secondary role in 1952's The Marrying Kind led to a long screen career, wherein the burly Shaughnessy was frequently cast as big, dumb lugs with golden hearts. While contracted with MGM, Shaughnessy appeared in Don't Go Near the Water (1955) as a potty-mouthed sailor (whose cuss words were amusingly bleeped out on the soundtrack), in Designing Women (1957) as a punch-drunk boxer, and in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) as the Duke; he also essayed a rare unsympathetic role in 1958's The Sheepman. As Jerry Lewis' Navy buddy-turned-wrestler in Don't Give up the Ship (1959), Shaughnessy effortlessly stole the film from Lewis, which may explain why the two were never reteamed. After closing out his film career in the early '60s, Mickey Shaughnessy revived his nightclub act, priding himself on always working "clean" even into the 1980s.

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
No Score Yet	Primal Scream	Charlie Waxman	—	1986
No Score Yet	The Boatniks	Charlie	—	1970
No Score Yet	My Dog the Thief	Actor	—	1969
No Score Yet	Never a Dull Moment	Francis	—	1968
No Score Yet	A Global Affair	Policeman	—	1964
No Score Yet	A House Is Not a Home	Sgt. John Riordan	—	1964
86%	How the West Was Won	Deputy Marshall	—	1963
63%	Pocketful of Miracles	Junior	—	1961
No Score Yet	King of the Roaring Twenties	Jim Kelly	—	1961
50%	North to Alaska	Peter Boggs	—	1960
No Score Yet	Sex Kittens Go to College	Boomie	—	1960
No Score Yet	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	The Duke	—	1960
No Score Yet	Edge of Eternity	Scotty O'Brien	—	1959
No Score Yet	Don't Give Up the Ship	Wychinsky	—	1959
No Score Yet	The Hangman	Al Cruse	—	1959
No Score Yet	Ask Any Girl	Man smoking cigarettes	—	1959
No Score Yet	The Sheepman	Jumbo McCall	—	1958
No Score Yet	Gunman's Walk	Will Motely	—	1958
No Score Yet	Don't Go Near the Water	Farragut Jones	—	1957
79%	Jailhouse Rock	Hunk Houghton	—	1957
60%	Until They Sail	Marine	—	1957
80%	Designing Woman	Maxie Stultz	—	1957
No Score Yet	The Burglar	Dohmer	—	1957
No Score Yet	Slaughter on Tenth Avenue	Solly Pitts	—	1957
60%	Conquest of Space	Sgt. Mahoney	—	1955
No Score Yet	Conquest of Space	Actor	—	1954
92%	From Here to Eternity	Sgt.Leva	—	1953
No Score Yet	Last Of The Comanches	Rusty Potter	—	1953
67%	The Marrying Kind	Pat Bundy	—	1952

Rating	Title	Credit	Year
No Score Yet	Maverick 1957-1962	Mr. Muldoon	1962

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