Authored a number of classic "standards", including "Stardust", "Skylark", "Ole Buttermilk Sky", "Georgia on My Mind", "Rockin' Chair", "Lazy River", "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief", and "Heart and Soul."
[1] Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, CA.
Father: Howard Clyde Carmichael
Mother: Lida Mary Robison
Wife: Ruth Meinardi (model, m. 14-Mar-1936, div. 1955, two sons)
Son: Hoagy Bix
Son: Randy
Wife: Dorothy Wanda McKay (actress, m. 20-Jun-1977, until his death)
University: BA, Indiana University Bloomington (1925)
Law School: LLB, Indiana University Bloomington (1926)
Hollywood Walk of Fame 1720 Vine Street (television)
Oscar for Best Music Original Song 1951, for "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"
Songwriters Hall of Fame
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
Kappa Sigma Fraternity
TELEVISION
Laramie Jonesy (1959-60)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Timberjack (4-Feb-1955)
Belles on Their Toes (2-May-1952)
The Las Vegas Story (1-Jan-1952) · Happy
Young Man with a Horn (9-Feb-1950) · Smoke Willoughby
Johnny Holiday (18-Nov-1949)
Night Song (10-Nov-1947) · Chick
The Best Years of Our Lives (21-Nov-1946) · Butch Engle
Canyon Passage (17-Jul-1946) · Hi Linnet
Johnny Angel (25-Oct-1945) · Celestial O'Brien
To Have and Have Not (11-Oct-1944) · Cricket
Author of books:
The Stardust Road (1946, autobiography)
Sometimes I Wonder (1965, autobiography)
AKA Hoagland Howard Carmichael