Cast & creator
Hoagy Carmichael
Best known for What's My Line?, The Flintstones, Climax!
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.
Also known as: Howard Hoagland Carmichael
23
film credits
12
television credits
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1936–1982 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (35)
Showing 35 of 35 credits
What's My Line?
Self
1950
The Flintstones
Self (voice)
1960
Climax!
Jazzman
1954
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
1957
Burke's Law
'Jango' Jordan
1963Burke's Law
Carl Baker
1963
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
1950
Laramie
Jonesy
1959
Telephone Time
1956Lux Video Theatre
Sam
1950The Rosemary Clooney Show
Self
1956
The Best Years of Our Lives
Butch Engle
1946
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Songs
1953
To Have and Have Not
Cricket
1945
Young Man with a Horn
Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby
1950
Old Friends... New Friends
Self
1978
Topper
Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)
1937
Belles on Their Toes
Tom Bracken
1952
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Songs
1941
Canyon Passage
Hi Linnet
1946
The Las Vegas Story
Happy
1952
Some Like It Hot
Songs
1939
Those Redheads from Seattle
Songs
1953
Johnny Angel
Celestial O'Brien
1945
Thanks for the Memory
Songs
1938
The Helen Morgan Story
Marty Dix
1957
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
Self
1982
Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued
Songs
1981
Anything Goes
Songs
1936
College Swing
Songs
1938
Io t'ho incontrata a Napoli
Music
1946
Timberjack
Jingles
1955
Night Song
Chick Morgan
1948
Johnny Holiday
Hoagy Carmichael
1949
Hoagy Carmichael
Himself
1939