Hoagy Carmichael
Biography
Hoagy Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time. American composer and author Alec Wilder wrote of Carmichael in American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 that he was the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented" of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Butch Engle
1946
To Have and Have Not
as Cricket
1945
The Las Vegas Story
as Happy
1952
Young Man with a Horn
as Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby
1950
Johnny Angel
as Celestial O'Brien
1945
Canyon Passage
as Hi Linnet
1946
Belles on Their Toes
as Tom Bracken
1952
Johnny Holiday
as Hoagy Carmichael
1949
Hong Kong Blues
1942
Night Song
as Chick Morgan
1948
The Helen Morgan Story
as Marty Dix
1957
Timberjack
as Jingles
1955
Topper
as Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)
1937
Lazybones
1941
Hoagy Carmichael
as Himself
1939
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
as Self
1982
TV Appearances
Burke's Law
as 'Jango' Jordan
1963
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
Lux Video Theatre
as Sam
1950
Climax!
as Jazzman
1954
Laramie
as Jonesy
1959
Telephone Time
1956
Burke's Law
as Carl Baker
1963
The Rosemary Clooney Show
as Self
1956
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
The Flintstones
as Self (voice)
1960
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
Old Friends... New Friends
as Self
1978