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Hoagy Carmichael

Acting
Known For

82 Years Old

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.

Born

Bloomington, Indiana, USA on 22nd November 1899

Died

27th December 1981

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Laramie
Jonesy
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The Colgate Comedy Hour
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Telephone Time
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The Flintstones
Self (voice)
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The Rosemary Clooney Show
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Climax!
Jazzman
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Sam
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What's My Line?
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Burke's Law
Carl Baker
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Burke's Law
'Jango' Jordan
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Self
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Butch Engle
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Topper
Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)
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To Have and Have Not
Cricket
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Canyon Passage
Hi Linnet
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Young Man with a Horn
Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby
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The Las Vegas Story
Happy
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Belles on Their Toes
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Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
Self
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Johnny Angel
Celestial O'Brien
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Night Song
Chick Morgan
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Timberjack
Jingles
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The Helen Morgan Story
Marty Dix
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Hoagy Carmichael
Himself
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Johnny Holiday
Hoagy Carmichael
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Hong Kong Blues
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Lazybones