Jimmie Dodd
Actor

Jimmie Dodd Net Worth

Jimmie Dodd was a multi-talented musician, actor, composer, songwriter, singer, guitarist, and conductor born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1910. He began his career in 1933 as a guitarist and singer on radio, and moved to Hollywood in 1937 to play in the Louis Prima orchestra. During World War II, he toured the Aleutians and the China-Burma-India area for the USO with his wife Ruth Carrell Dodd. He was active in television beginning in 1952 and won the MC role on the new The Mickey Mouse Club (1955) series in 1955. He left the series in 1959 and toured Australia in 1960. He joined ASCAP in 1946 and his popular-song compositions include "Mickey Mouse March", "He Was There", "Encyclopedia", "I Love Girls", "Lonely Guitar", "Mamie", "Nashville Blues", "I'm No Fool", "Rosemary", "Be a Good Guest", "Amarillo", "Hi to You", "Proverbs", "Washington" (official song of the District of Columbia), "Meet Me in Monterey" (for the Monterey Centennial), and "A Bird Is Singin' the Blues".
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor, Soundtrack, Music Department
Birth Day March 28, 1910
Birth Place  Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Age 110 YEARS OLD
Died On November 10, 1964(1964-11-10) (aged 54)\nHonolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Birth Sign Aries
Occupation Actor, singer-songwriter
Years active 1940–1959
Spouse(s) Ruth Carrell (1940–1964; his death)

💰 Net worth

Jimmie Dodd, known for his various talents as an actor, soundtrack artist, and music department expert, is anticipated to have a net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million in the year 2024. With his multifaceted skills and contributions to the entertainment industry, particularly in the United States, Dodd has amassed a significant wealth over the years. His expertise in acting, creating soundtracks, and working in the music department has allowed him to establish a successful and lucrative career in show business.

Biography/Timeline

1940

Dodd had some early film roles in The Three Mesquiteers series of westerns. Coincidentally, he performed in two unrelated series whose names were plays on "musketeers". He made his first screen appearance in the 1940 william Holden film Those Were the Days! in a minor role. He also appeared in many theatrical films in the 1940s and 1950s, often uncredited. He appeared with John Wayne in the war films Flying Tigers (1942), Janie (1944), in which he sings a bit of Keep Your Powder Dry with star Joyce Reynolds, and with Harry Carey in China's Little Devils (1945), another film involving the Flying Tigers. He also played the taxi driver in the MGM film Easter Parade (1948), starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. Dodd had a small, but important part in the Mickey Rooney hit Quicksand (1950). Two of his films were biographies of baseball players: The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), in which Jackie Robinson played himself, and The Winning Team (1952), in which Future President Ronald Reagan portrayed pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander. He played a taxi driver again in Phffft (1954).

1955

In addition to his small role in an early episode of Adventures of Superman titled "Double Trouble," Dodd appeared as a deputy in the 1955 episode "Sontag and Evans" of the syndicated television series Stories of the Century. The segment was based on the California train Robbers Chris Evans and John Sontag.

1964

Dodd died of cancer on November 10, 1964, in Honolulu, Hawaii, aged 54. Cheryl Holdridge was the last Mouseketeer to see Dodd alive. Holdridge visited Dodd in his final hours because she and her new husband Lance Reventlow had flown to Hawaii for their honeymoon. They came to the hospital before Dodd died. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles.

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