Hoagy Carmichael
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.
Filmography
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
1982
as Self
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
as Marty Dix
Timberjack
1955
as Jingles
Belles on Their Toes
1952
as Tom Bracken
The Las Vegas Story
1952
as Happy
Young Man with a Horn
1950
as Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby
Johnny Holiday
1949
as Hoagy Carmichael
Night Song
1948
as Chick Morgan
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
as Butch Engle
Canyon Passage
1946
as Hi Linnet
Johnny Angel
1945
as Celestial O'Brien
To Have and Have Not
1945
as Cricket
Hong Kong Blues
1942
Lazybones
1941
Hoagy Carmichael
1939
as Himself
Topper
1937
as Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)