Personal info
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 2/29/1904
- Birthplace
- Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- 6/17/1957 (aged 53)
- Gender
- Male
- Also known as
- James Francis Dorsey
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.
12 titles
This Is Elvis
1981
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
What's My Line?
1950TV
Self
Hollywood Canteen
1944
Self
Lost in a Harem
1944
Jimmy Dorsey
The Fabulous Dorseys
1947
Jimmy Dorsey
Birth of the Blues
1941
Self (archive footage)
I Dood It
1943
Himself (as Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra)
That Girl from Paris
1936
Hammacher's Band Member (uncredited)
Four Jills in a Jeep
1944
Himself
The Fleet's In
1942
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra Leader
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
1938
Orchestra Leader
Make Believe Ballroom
1949
Self
