Hoagy Carmichael

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Hoagy Carmichael

Acting November 22, 1899

Bloomington, Indiana, USA

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…

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What's My Line?

What's My Line?

7.0 1950 TV Show
The Flintstones

The Flintstones

7.4 1960 TV Show
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

7.3 1953 Movie
The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives

7.7 1946 Movie
To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not

7.5 1945 Movie
Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

7.5 1957 TV Show
Climax!

Climax!

3.8 1954 TV Show
Burke's Law

Burke's Law

6.3 1963 TV Show
The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Colgate Comedy Hour

6.9 1950 TV Show
Laramie

Laramie

6.7 1959 TV Show
Topper

Topper

6.7 1937 Movie
Telephone Time

Telephone Time

6.5 1956 TV Show

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 1982
    Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet

    Movie Self

  2. 1981
    Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued

    Movie Songs

  3. 1978
    Old Friends... New Friends

    TV show Self

  4. 1963
    Burke's Law

    TV show 'Jango' Jordan

  5. 1960
    The Flintstones

    TV show Self (voice)

  6. 1959
    Laramie

    TV show Jonesy

  7. 1957
    Tonight Starring Jack Paar

    TV show Self

  8. 1957
    The Helen Morgan Story

    Movie Marty Dix

  9. 1956
    The Rosemary Clooney Show

    TV show Self

  10. 1956
    Telephone Time

    TV show

  11. 1955
    Timberjack

    Movie Jingles

  12. 1954
    Climax!

    TV show Jazzman

  13. 1953
    Those Redheads from Seattle

    Movie Songs

  14. 1953
    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

    Movie Songs

  15. 1952
    Belles on Their Toes

    Movie Tom Bracken

  16. 1952
    The Las Vegas Story

    Movie Happy

More credits
  1. 1950
    Lux Video Theatre

    TV show Sam

  2. 1950
    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    TV show Self

  3. 1950
    Young Man with a Horn

    Movie Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby

  4. 1950
    What's My Line?

    TV show Self

  5. 1949
    Johnny Holiday

    Movie Hoagy Carmichael

  6. 1948
    Night Song

    Movie Chick Morgan

  7. 1946
    The Best Years of Our Lives

    Movie Butch Engle

  8. 1946
    Canyon Passage

    Movie Hi Linnet

  9. 1946
    Io t'ho incontrata a Napoli

    Movie Music

  10. 1945
    Johnny Angel

    Movie Celestial O'Brien

  11. 1945
    To Have and Have Not

    Movie Cricket

  12. 1941
    Mr. Bug Goes to Town

    Movie Songs

  13. 1939
    Some Like It Hot

    Movie Songs

  14. 1939
    Hoagy Carmichael

    Movie Himself

  15. 1938
    Thanks for the Memory

    Movie Songs

  16. 1938
    College Swing

    Movie Songs

  17. 1937
    Topper

    Movie Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)

  18. 1936
    Anything Goes

    Movie Songs