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Hoagy Carmichael
Acting
Born: November 22, 1899
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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.
Known For
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Butch Engle
Topper
as Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)
To Have and Have Not
as Cricket
Canyon Passage
as Hi Linnet
The Las Vegas Story
as Happy
Belles on Their Toes
as Tom Bracken
Young Man with a Horn
as Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby
Johnny Angel
as Celestial O'Brien
Night Song
as Chick Morgan
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
as Self
