Hoagy Carmichael
Known For
Acting
Born
1899-11-22 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Died
1981-12-27
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.
Most Known For
The Flintstones
as Self (voice)
What's My Line?
as Self
Climax!
as Jazzman
Burke's Law
as 'Jango' Jordan
Burke's Law
as Carl Baker
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
Laramie
as Jonesy
Telephone Time
Lux Video Theatre
as Sam
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Butch Engle
To Have and Have Not
as Cricket
The Rosemary Clooney Show
as Self
Topper
as Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)
Young Man with a Horn
as Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby
The Las Vegas Story
as Happy
Canyon Passage
as Hi Linnet
Johnny Angel
as Celestial O'Brien
Belles on Their Toes
as Tom Bracken
Timberjack
as Jingles