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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 29, 1904
Died
June 17, 1957
Place of Birth
Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- James Francis Dorsey
Jimmy Dorsey
0.2 Popularity
Biography
Jimmy Dorsey (1904-1957) was an American bandleader, saxophonist, conductor, songwriter and composer. Through the 1920s he was a saxophonist in orchestras including those of Paul Whiteman, Red Nichols, and the California Ramblers. He formed an orchestra with his brother Tommy lasting from 1933 to 1935. He led his own orchestra before rejoining Tommy's orchestra in 1953 and taking over the orchestra after Tommy's death.
Known For
7.0
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
This Is Elvis
1981
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Jazz Ball
1956
🎬
0.0
Stage Show
1954
6.9
Self - Mystery Guest
What's My Line?
1950
5.5
Self
Make Believe Ballroom
1949
🎬
0.0
Self
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
1948
6.0
Self
Music Man
1948
6.0
Jimmy Dorsey
The Fabulous Dorseys
1947
7.3
Self
Hollywood Canteen
1944
5.4
Jimmy Dorsey
Lost in a Harem
1944
Credits
This Is Elvis
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1981
7.0
Jazz Ball
as Self (archive footage)
1956
7.0
🎬
Stage Show
1954
0.0
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
Make Believe Ballroom
as Self
1949
5.5
🎬
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
as Self
1948
0.0
Music Man
as Self
1948
6.0
The Fabulous Dorseys
as Jimmy Dorsey
1947
6.0
Hollywood Canteen
as Self
1944
7.3
Lost in a Harem
as Jimmy Dorsey
1944
5.4
Four Jills in a Jeep
as Himself
1944
5.7
I Dood It
as Himself (as Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra)
1943
3.5
Au Reet
1943
5.5
🎬
La Rosita
1943
0.0
🎬
Man That's Groovy
1943
0.0
The Fleet's In
as Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra Leader
1942
7.0
Birth of the Blues
as Self (archive footage)
1941
6.0
🎬
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
as Orchestra Leader
1938
5.0
You Leave Me Breathless
1938
0.0
That Girl from Paris
as Hammacher's Band Member (uncredited)
1936
6.6