Hoagy Carmichael
Birthday: 1899-11-22 | Place of Birth: Bloomington, Indiana, USAHoagy 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.
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Known For
Acting
Year
Title
Role
1982
1957
The Helen Morgan Story
as Marty Dix
1955
Timberjack
as Jingles
1954
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Butch Engle
1952
The Las Vegas Story
as Happy
1952
Belles on Their Toes
as Tom Bracken
1950
Young Man with a Horn
as Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby
1949
Johnny Holiday
as Hoagy Carmichael
1948
Night Song
as Chick Morgan
1946
Canyon Passage
as Hi Linnet
1945
Johnny Angel
as Celestial O'Brien
1945
To Have and Have Not
as Cricket
