Jimmie Dodd Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

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. 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". Dodd made his first screen appearance in the 1940 William Holden film Those Were the Days! in a... MORE

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. 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". Dodd made his first screen appearance in the 1940 William Holden film Those Were the Days! in a minor role. He also played the taxi driver in the MGM film Easter Parade starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. Dodd had a small role in an early episode of Adventures of Superman, titled Double Trouble. He also appeared in many theatrical films in the 1940s and 1950s, often uncredited. Two of those films were biographies of baseball players: The Jackie Robinson Story, in which Jackie Robinson played himself, and The Winning Team, in which future president Ronald Reagan played pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander. He also appeared with John Wayne in the film Flying Tigers. The Mickey Mouse Club aired LESS