Hoagy Carmichael
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as Butch Engle The Best Years of Our Lives 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.
Filmography
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
Belles on Their Toes
as Tom Bracken
Hoagy Carmichael
as Himself
Timberjack
as Jingles
Night Song
as Chick Morgan
Johnny Holiday
as Hoagy Carmichael
The Helen Morgan Story
as Marty Dix
