Former child actor Teddy Rooney dies at 66

Actor

Teddy Rooney

, son of

Hollywood

star Mickey Rooney, has died. He was 66. Teddy died on Saturday in a convalescent home in

Southern California

after a long illness, his sister,

Kelly

, told The

Hollywood Reporter

.

His mother was model and actress Martha Vickers ('The Big Sleep'), the third of Mickey Rooney's eight wives. They were married from 1949-51.

Teddy appeared with his father as the son of his father's legendary character (now a grown-up) in '

Andy Hardy

Comes Home' (1958) and on a 1960 installment of '

General Electric Theater

,' and, earlier, he acted alongside his mother on a 1957 episode of another

CBS

anthology series, 'Playhouse 90.'

He also starred in such films as 'It Happened to

Jane

' (1959) with Doris Day and Jack Lemmon and "

Seven Ways From Sundown

" (1960) with Audie Murphy and on TV shows including 'Shirley Temple's Storybook,' 'Wagon Train' and 'The Rifleman.'

Teddy left acting in the early 1960s to focus on a career as a musician. He played bass and sang with his brothers

Mickey Jr

and

Tim

in the

Columbia Records

act The

Rooney Brothers

, and he was a member of the garage band The Yellow Payges.

He also served in the

Vietnam War

.

Survivors

include his wife

Carol

and children

Shannon

and Dominique.