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Hoagy Carmichael

Actor

Hoagy Carmichael

Born November 22, 1899 in Bloomington, Indiana, USADied December 27, 198112 films

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.

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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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The Best Years of Our Lives posterFirst watchThe Best Years of Our Lives19467.7as Butch EngleIt's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived.View film

Essential films

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To Have and Have Not poster7.5To Have and Have Not1945Topper poster6.7Topper1937Canyon Passage poster6.8Canyon Passage1946Young Man with a Horn poster6.4Young Man with a Horn1950

Filmography

12 films as actor
  1. 1957The Helen Morgan StoryMarty Dix
  2. 1955TimberjackJingles
  3. 1952Belles on Their ToesTom Bracken
  4. 1952The Las Vegas StoryHappy
  5. 1950Young Man with a HornWillie 'Smoke' Willoughby
  6. 1949Johnny HolidayHoagy Carmichael
  7. 1948Night SongChick Morgan
  8. 1946The Best Years of Our LivesButch Engle
  9. 1946Canyon PassageHi Linnet
  10. 1945Johnny AngelCelestial O'Brien
  11. 1945To Have and Have NotCricket
  12. 1937TopperHoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)