Hoagy Carmichael
Acting
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.
Notable Works
Prominent titles featuring Hoagy Carmichael
Topper
1937
Filmography
Acting (14)
1982
9.0
1957
The Helen Morgan Storyas Marty Dix
1955
Timberjackas Jingles
4.2
1952
Belles on Their Toesas Tom Bracken
7.1
1952
The Las Vegas Storyas Happy
6.0
1950
Young Man with a Hornas Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby
6.4
1949
Johnny Holidayas Hoagy Carmichael
7.5
1948
Night Songas Chick Morgan
6.4
1946
The Best Years of Our Livesas Butch Engle
7.7
1946
Canyon Passageas Hi Linnet
6.7
1945
Johnny Angelas Celestial O'Brien
6.0
1945
To Have and Have Notas Cricket
7.5
1939
Hoagy Carmichaelas Himself
5.4
1937
Topperas Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)
6.7
Production & Directing (9)
1953
5.6
1953
7.3
1946
1941
Mr. Bug Goes to TownSongs
6.3
1939
Some Like It HotSongs
7.6
1938
5.8
1938
College SwingSongs
6.8
1936
Anything GoesSongs
5.8