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name: "Mickey Rentschler"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mickey-rentschler"
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born: "6 October 1923"
died: "27 June 1969"
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average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T23:46:30.442421+00:00"
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# Mickey Rentschler

Actor. Born 6 October 1923 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Died 27 June 1969.

## Details

- **Born:** 6 October 1923, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- **Died:** 27 June 1969
- **Also known as:** Mickey Rentchler
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16320360, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0719898/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1035639

## Biography

Mickey Rentschler was an American actor. Born Milton Edward Rentschler on 6 October 1923 in Detroit, Michigan, he appeared in numerous films as a child and teenager during the 1930s and early 1940s, often in uncredited or minor roles.

His credited parts include Tommy Anderson in *Boys Town* (1938), Joe Harper in *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* (1938) and Pinky Adams in the serial *Radio Patrol* (1937). He also featured in *Sergeant York* (1941), *I Married a Witch* (1942) and *You Only Live Once* (1937). Rentschler retired from acting around the age of 21.

He died on 27 June 1969 in Long Beach, California.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, ancestors.familysearch.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Boys Town* (1938), Fi1m 65, as Tommy Anderson — [page](https://film.one/film/boys-town.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Destroyer* (1943), as J.V. Talker
- *Redhead from Manhattan* (1943), as Club Patron
- *I Married a Witch* (1942), Actor
- *West of Cimarron* (1941), as Jimmy Conway
- *Sergeant York* (1941), as Zeb's Brother (uncredited) — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/sergeant-york.md)
- *Young Tom Edison* (1940), as Johnny, Joe's Friend
- *Made for Each Other* (1939), as Office Boy (uncredited)
- *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* (1939), as Harry (uncredited)
- *Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus* (1938), as Herman Boggs
- *Boys Town* (1938), as Tommy Anderson — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/boys-town.md)
- *The Devil's Party* (1938), as Young Marty
- *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* (1938), as Joe Harper
- *An Evening with Edgar Guest* (1938), as Bill
- *Radio Patrol* (1937), as Pinky Adams
- *You Only Live Once* (1937), as Ten-Year-Old Boy (uncredited)
- *Follow Your Heart* (1936), as Tommy Forrester
- *Sins of Man* (1936), as Gabriel Freyman as a Boy
- *The Murder of Dr. Harrigan* (1936), as Nosy Boy
- *Branded a Coward* (1935), as Young Johnny Hume
- *The Brand of Hate* (1934), as Bud Larkins
- *The Scarlet Letter* (1934), as Digerie Crakstone
- *A Modern Hero* (1934), as Young Pierre as a Child
- *His Private Secretary* (1933), as Joe Boyd

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