Hoagy Carmichael

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

Known For

The Flintstones

as Self (voice)

The Flintstones

as Hoagy Carmichael (voice)

The Best Years of Our Lives

as Butch Engle

To Have and Have Not

as Cricket

Topper

as Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)

Canyon Passage

as Hi Linnet

Young Man with a Horn

as Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby

The Las Vegas Story

as Happy

Johnny Angel

as Celestial O'Brien

What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest