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Movies
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TV Shows
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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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Died at
16
Movies
11
TV Shows
6.7
Avg Rating
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.
1950
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.
Gender
Male
Birthday
November 22, 1899
Died
December 27, 1981
Birthplace
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Also Known As
Topper
1937
Johnny Angel
1945
Young Man with a Horn
1950
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
To Have and Have Not
1945
Timberjack
1955
Lazybones
1941
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
1982
Belles on Their Toes
1952
Canyon Passage
1946
The Las Vegas Story
1952
Night Song
1948
Hoagy Carmichael
1939
Hong Kong Blues
1942
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
Johnny Holiday
1949
