Award-winning songwriter ("Stardust", "Ole Buttermilk Sky", "Georgia on
My Mind"), composer, pianist, actor and singer, educated at Indiana
University (LL.B). He played piano in the college bands, and later gave
up a law practice for a career in songwriting. He joined ASCAP in 1931,
and his chief musical collaborators included
Mitchell Parish, Stuart
Gorrell, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer, Sammy Lerner, Stanley Adams,
Edward Heyman, Paul Francis Webster, Jack Brooks, Ned Washington, and
Jo Trent.
His autobiographies are "The Stardust Road" and "Sometimes I Wonder".
His other popular-song compositions include "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of
the Evening" (Academy Award, 1951), "Washboard Blues", "Riverboat
Shuffle", "Little Old Lady", "Lazybones", "Rockin' Chair", "One Morning
in May", "Snowball", "Lazy River", "Thanksgivin'", "Judy", "Moonburn",
, "Small Fry", "Ooh, What You Said", "The Rhumba Jumps", "Two Sleepy
People", "Heart and Soul", "Skylark", "The Nearness of You", "When Love
Walks By", "Daybreak", "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief", "Ivy", "Memphis
in June", "Hong Kong Blues", "I Get Along Without You Very Well", "Blue
Orchids", "The Old Music Master", "How Little We Know", "The
Lamplighter's Serenade", "I Walk With Music", "Come Easy Go Easy Love",
"Can't Get Indiana Off My Mind", "I Should Have Known You Years Ago",
"Baltimore Oriole", "Rogue River Valley", "Who Killed 'Er (Who Killed
the Black Widder?)", "Moon Country", "When Love Goes Wrong",
"Mediterranean Love", "Music, Always Music", "There Goes Another Pal of
Mine", "Just For Tonight" and "My Resistance is Low".
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law(1971)as Uncle Walter
The Name of the Game(1968)as Willie Meeker
The Farmer's Daughter(1963)
The Man Who Bought Paradise(1965)as Mr. Leoni
Burke's Law(1963)as 'Jango' Jordan, Carl Baker
Georgia on My Mind(2023)
Michael Bolton: Georgia on My Mind(1990)
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo(1979)
Hengaillaan(2023)
Lives Well Lived(2023)
Stranger Things(2016)
Pluribus(2025)
Goodbye June(2025)
Bix: 'Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet'(1981)as Self - Interviewee
Old Friends... New Friends(1978)as Self
All You Need Is Love(1977)as Self
The David Frost Show(1969)as Self
This Is Pop(2021)as Self - Singer, Songwriter, Musician
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me(2009)as Self
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty(2003)as Self (clip from Lazybones (1941))
