Jimmie Dodd

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About this star

  • Category: Television
  • Star rank: 1584
  • Address:
    7003 Hollywood Blvd
  • Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing west
  • GPS location:
    34.101659, -118.343226

Biography

Jimmie Dodd hosts The Mickey Mouse Club (1955).

Source: ultimatedisney.com

James Wesley Dodd (March 28, 1910 – November 10, 1964) was best known as the MC of the popular 1950s Disney TV show, The Mickey Mouse Club, as well as the writer of its well-known theme song, The Mickey Mouse Club March. A slowed-down version of this march, with different lyrics, became the “Alma Mater” that closed the show.

Fact file

  • Born: March 28, 1910 Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Died: November 10, 1964 (aged 54) Honolulu, Hawaii

Read more about Jimmie Dodd at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database

Hollywood Blvd, north side, between Orange and Sycamore