Hoagy Carmichael
Actor
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
To Have and Have Not
as Cricket 1945
Topper
as Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited) 1937
Canyon Passage
as Hi Linnet 1946
Young Man with a Horn
as Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby 1950
The Las Vegas Story
as Happy 1952
Johnny Angel
as Celestial O'Brien 1945
Belles on Their Toes
as Tom Bracken 1952
Hoagy Carmichael
as Himself 1939
Timberjack
as Jingles 1955
Night Song
as Chick Morgan 1948
Johnny Holiday
as Hoagy Carmichael 1949
Hong Kong Blues
1942
The Helen Morgan Story
as Marty Dix 1957
Lazybones
1941