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Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael

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

Born

Nov 22, 1899

Bloomington, Indiana, USA

Died

Dec 27, 1981

Known For

Acting

Movies

16 acting

8 crew

Popularity

0.5

Known For

The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 as Butch Engle
★ 7.8
Canyon Passage
Canyon Passage
1946 as Hi Linnet
★ 6.7
Topper
Topper
1937 as Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)
★ 6.7
To Have and Have Not
To Have and Have Not
1945 as Cricket
★ 7.5
Johnny Angel
Johnny Angel
1945 as Celestial O'Brien
★ 6.0
Young Man with a Horn
Young Man with a Horn
1950 as Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby
★ 6.4
The Las Vegas Story
The Las Vegas Story
1952 as Happy
★ 6.0
Belles on Their Toes
Belles on Their Toes
1952 as Tom Bracken
★ 7.2
Timberjack
Timberjack
1955 as Jingles
★ 4.2
Night Song
Night Song
1948 as Chick Morgan
★ 6.4
Johnny Holiday
Johnny Holiday
1949 as Hoagy Carmichael
★ 7.5
The Helen Morgan Story
The Helen Morgan Story
1957 as Marty Dix
Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael
1939 as Himself
★ 5.4
Hong Kong Blues
★ 5.0