 On May 26, 2007, he was grand marshal at the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival.Rooney made his British pantomime debut, playing Baron Hardup in Cinderella, at the Sunderland Empire Theatre over the 2007 Christmas period, a role he reprised at Bristol Hippodrome in 2008 and at the Milton Keynes theatre in 2009.In 2011, Rooney made a cameo appearance in "The Muppets" and in 2014, at age 93, he reprised his role as Gus in "", which was dedicated to him and to Robin Williams, who also died that year.