Hoagy Carmichael

Known for ActingBorn 1899-11-22Died 1981-12-27Bloomington, Indiana, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet

The Rosemary Clooney Show

The Best Years of Our Lives

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

The Flintstones

Johnny Holiday

Some Like It Hot

To Have and Have Not

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Belles on Their Toes

What's My Line?

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Laramie

Lux Video Theatre

Canyon Passage

College Swing

Topper

Telephone Time

Young Man with a Horn

Night Song

Burke's Law

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

The Las Vegas Story

Johnny Angel

Anything Goes

Thanks for the Memory

Those Redheads from Seattle

Hoagy Carmichael

Hong Kong Blues

Timberjack

Climax!

Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued

Old Friends... New Friends

The Helen Morgan Story

Lazybones