Biography
Hoagy Carmichael
Acting
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 writ…
Career works
27
Movies
16
Series
11
Career average
6.6/10
Birth date
11/22/1899
Place of birth
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Date of death
12/27/1981
Filmography highlights
Movies
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
1982 · 9.0
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
Timberjack
1955 · 4.2
Belles on Their Toes
1952 · 7.2
The Las Vegas Story
1952 · 6.0
Young Man with a Horn
1950 · 6.4
Johnny Holiday
1949 · 7.5
Night Song
1948 · 6.4
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 · 7.7
Canyon Passage
1946 · 6.7
Johnny Angel
1945 · 6.0
To Have and Have Not
1945 · 7.5
Hong Kong Blues
1942 · 5.0
Lazybones
1941
Hoagy Carmichael
1939 · 5.4
Series
