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Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael

Birthday: 1899-11-22 | Place of Birth: Bloomington, Indiana, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1959
Laramie

as    Jonesy

1955
Timberjack

as    Jingles

1952
The Las Vegas Story

as    Happy

1950
Young Man with a Horn

as    Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby

1949
Johnny Holiday

as    Hoagy Carmichael

1948
Night Song

as    Chick Morgan

1946
The Best Years of Our Lives

as    Butch Engle

1946
Canyon Passage

as    Hi Linnet

1945
Johnny Angel

as    Celestial O'Brien

1945
To Have and Have Not

as    Cricket