Composer, songwriter ("Mickey Mouse March"), actor, singer, guitarist and conductor, educated at the University of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Conservatory, and Vanderbilt University. He began his career in 1933 as a guitarist and singer on radio, coming to Hollywood in 1937 to play in the Louis Prima orchestra and become an actor. In World War II he toured the Aleutians and China-Burma-India for the USO with his wife Ruth Carrell Dodd. Beginning in 1952, he made television appearances,... imdb
Composer, songwriter ("Mickey Mouse March"), actor, singer, guitarist and conductor, educated at the University of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Conservatory, and Vanderbilt University. He began his career in 1933 as a guitarist and singer on radio, coming t www.imdb.com/name/nm0230082/