Jimmie Dodd

About

Head Mouseketeer and theme song writer for the Mickey Mouse Club.

Before Fame

He began his entertainment career playing guitar and singing on the radio and in 1937, he came to Hollywood to play with the Louis Prima Orchestra.

Trivia

Before his breakthrough role with the Mickey Mouse Club, he had uncredited parts in over seventy films and wrote popular songs in the 1940s.

Family Life

He grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, his father working for a lithograph company and his mother working as a stenographer.

Associated With

Johnny Crawford starred alongside him in the Mickey Mouse Club as one of the original Mouseketeers.