Baby Face Nelson

Siegel’s next project was Baby Face Nelson (1957), a violent look at the infamous gangster (played by Mickey Rooney).

…as the notorious gangster in Baby Face Nelson (1957), the trainer of a washed-up boxer in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962), a former jockey in The Black Stallion (1979), and a mentally handicapped man in the television movie Bill (1981). He received an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement in…