Scatman Crothers

May 22, 1910 - Nov 21, 1986 (76 years old) in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA

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Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers (May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986) was an American actor, singer, dancer and musician known for his work as Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and as Dick Hallorann in The Shining in 1980. He was also a prolific voiceover artist, and provided the voices of Meadowlark Lemon in the animated TV version of The Harlem Globetrotters, Jazz the Autobot in The Transformers, the title character in Hong Kong Phooey, and Scat Cat in the 1970 film The Aristocats.

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Known For

Love, American Style

One-Man Band

The Love Boat

Virgil Gibson

Magnum, P.I.

Tickler

Sanford and Son

Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo

(voice)

The Incredible Hulk

Ironside

Jason

Hill Street Blues

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Self

Bewitched

Credits

Transformers: 40th Anniversary Event 2024

Jazz (voice) (archive footage)

★ 7.1
Scooby-Doo! and the Pirates 2011

(voice) (archive footage)

★ 9.5
Transformers: The Return of Optimus Prime 1987

Jazz

★ 8.5
Rock Odyssey 1987

Jukebox (voice)

★ 6.8
The Transformers: The Movie 1986

Jazz (voice)

★ 7.1
Morningstar/Eveningstar 1986

★ 6
The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye 1986

Jazz

★ 8.6
The Journey of Natty Gann 1985

Sherman

★ 6.9
Paw Paws 1985

★ 8
The Transformers 1984

Jazz (voice)

★ 7.8
Two of a Kind 1983

Earl

★ 5.9
This Is Your Life 1983

Self

★ NR
Twilight Zone: The Movie 1983

Mr. Bloom

★ 6.5
Grandpa, Will You Run with Me? 1983

Self - Sketch Performer

★ NR
Casablanca 1983

Sam

★ 5.3
Missing Children: A Mother's Story 1982

Mose Wheeler

★ 6.7
Deadly Eyes 1982

George Faskins

★ 6
It Takes Two 1982

★ 5
Matt Houston 1982

★ 6.2
Madame's Place 1982

Self

★ 7.3
Hotel 1982

★ 6.8
Zapped! 1982

Dexter Jones

★ 5.2
Working 1982

Parking Attendant

★ 4.3
One of the Boys 1982

★ 4.3
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island 1981

Dewey Stevens

★ 5.3
Hill Street Blues 1981

★ 7.6
Magnum, P.I. 1980

Tickler

★ 7.3
Making 'The Shining' 1980

Self

★ 7.1
Bronco Billy 1980

Doc Lynch

★ 6.3
The Shining 1980

Hallorann

★ 8.2
Scavenger Hunt 1979

Sam

★ 5.7
Banjo the Woodpile Cat 1979

Crazy Legs (voice)

★ 6.3
The Super Globetrotters 1979

Nate Branch / Liquid Man (voice)

★ 7.8
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo 1979

(voice)

★ 7.4
Flying High 1978

★ 4.5
Vega$ 1978

★ 7
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney 1978

Self

★ NR
Taxi 1978

Walt

★ 7.2
The Cheap Detective 1978

Tinker

★ 6.2
Mean Dog Blues 1978

Mudcat

★ 4.9
The Incredible Hulk 1977

★ 7.2
The Love Boat 1977

Virgil Gibson

★ 6.3
Scooby's Laff-A Lympics 1977

Hong Kong Phooey (voice)

★ 8.2
Roots 1977

Mingo

★ 7.4
Silver Streak 1976

Ralston

★ 6.7
Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy 1976

Ben Benson

★ 4
The Shootist 1976

Moses

★ 7.1
Stay Hungry 1976

William

★ 5.7
Joys 1976

Self

★ 4
Laverne & Shirley 1976

★ 7.2
Friday Foster 1975

Reverend Noble Franklin

★ 6
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975

Orderly Turkle

★ 8.4
Starsky & Hutch 1975

★ 7.3
Coonskin 1975

Pappy / Old Man Bone (voice)

★ 6
Man on the Outside 1975

Ruben Hammer

★ NR
The Fortune 1975

Fisherman

★ 5.3
Linda Lovelace for President 1975

Super Black

★ 4.1
Win, Place or Steal 1975

Attendant

★ NR
Chico and the Man 1974

Louie

★ 5.8
Kolchak: The Night Stalker 1974

Uncle Filemon

★ 7.6
Hong Kong Phooey 1974

Hong Kong Phooey (voice)

★ 6.3
Truck Turner 1974

Duke

★ 6.5
Sty of the Blind Pig 1974

Doc

★ NR
Black Belt Jones 1974

Pop Byrd

★ 5.9
Kojak 1973

Gaylord Fuller

★ 7
Griff 1973

Joe Rawls

★ 5
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts 1973

Self

★ 5.4
Scooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters 1973

(voices)

★ 9.2
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off 1973

Cleveland

★ 4.8
Detroit 9000 1973

Reverend Markham

★ 5.4
The King of Marvin Gardens 1972

Lewis

★ 5.8
Lady Sings the Blues 1972

Big Ben

★ 6.9
Temperatures Rising 1972

★ 5
The New Scooby-Doo Movies 1972

Meadowlark Lemon (voice)

★ 7.7
The Lorax 1972

Singer

★ 7.1
Sanford and Son 1972

★ 7.4
Chandler 1971

Smoke

★ 4.5
McMillan & Wife 1971

Floyd

★ 7.1
Nichols 1971

Jack

★ 5
The Aristocats 1970

Scat Cat (voice)

★ 7.3
The Great White Hope 1970

Carnival Barker (uncredited)

★ 6.1
The Odd Couple 1970

Blind Man

★ 7.8
Harlem Globetrotters 1970

★ 6
Bloody Mama 1970

Moses

★ 5.5
Hello, Dolly! 1969

Mr. Jones (Porter) (uncredited)

★ 7
Love, American Style 1969

One-Man Band

★ 6
Hook, Line and Sinker 1969

The Corpse (uncredited)

★ 4.1
Adam-12 1968

George Strothers

★ 7
Mannix 1967

★ 6.7
Ironside 1967

Jason

★ 6.8
Bewitched 1964

★ 7.9
The Patsy 1964

Shoeshine Boy

★ 6.2
Lady in a Cage 1964

Mr. Paul's Assistant (uncredited)

★ 6.2
The Sins of Rachel Cade 1961

Musinga

★ 5.5
Johnny Midnight 1960

Train Attendant (uncredited)

★ NR
Bourbon Street Beat 1959

Joe

★ 5
Porgy and Bess 1959

Crabman

★ 6.1
Alias Jesse James 1959

Railroad Porter (uncredited)

★ 5.9
Tarzan and the Trappers 1958

Tyana

★ 4
Between Heaven and Hell 1956

George (uncredited)

★ 5.9
The Adventures of Jim Bowie 1956

★ 3.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955

Timothy

★ 7.7
Johnny Dark 1954

Himself

★ 5
Walking My Baby Back Home 1953

Smiley Gordon

★ 9
East of Sumatra 1953

Baltimore (as Scat Man Crothers)

★ 5.5
Meet Me at the Fair 1953

Enoch Jones

★ 7
Yes Sir, Mr. Bones 1951

Scatman

★ 4.5
Lux Video Theatre 1950

Johnson

★ 6.3
The Colgate Comedy Hour 1950

Self

★ 6.8

Scatman Crothers

Known For

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