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.