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Which gangster did Mickey Rooney portray in Don Siegel’s Baby Face Nelson?
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Don Siegel (left) and Clint Eastwood during the filming of Dirty Harry (1971).
In Don Siegel’s 1957 film Baby Face Nelson, Mickey Rooney portrayed the title character, the infamous gangster Baby Face Nelson.12