Scatman Crothers
Date of birth: 1910-05-23
Place of birth: Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Benjamin Crothers, Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers, Benjamin Sherman Crothers, اسکیتمن کراترز
Biography
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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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975-11-19
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon f
The Shining
1980-05-23
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and
The Aristocats
1970-12-24
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved
Stay Hungry
1976-04-23
A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolish
Bronco Billy
1980-06-11
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luc
Silver Streak
1976-12-03
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murder
Scavenger Hunt
1979-12-21
An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of doll
Zapped!
1982-07-23
Peyton and Barney are fun loving high school students working on a science project with white mice.
Linda Lovelace for President
1975-03-01
An intentionally campy film designed to capitalize on Linda Lovelace's sudden fame following "Deep T
Bloody Mama
1970-03-24
Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 193
The Shootist
1976-07-21
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly
Two of a Kind
1983-12-13
God has had enough of the bad behavior and attitude of humankind, and has decided to start it all ov
Coonskin
1975-08-20
Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going
The Journey of Natty Gann
1985-09-27
America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A c
The Cheap Detective
1978-06-23
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accu
The Lorax
1972-02-14
The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall, as h
Deadly Eyes
1982-10-23
Corn grain contaminated with steroids produces large rats the size of small dogs who begin feeding o
Black Belt Jones
1974-01-28
Jones is a secret agent who has gone into semi-retirement, concentrating instead on teaching the mar
Making 'The Shining'
1980-10-04
Directed and edited by Stanley Kubrick's daughter Vivian Kubrick, this film offers a look behind the
The Fortune
1975-05-20
A couple of bumbling 1920s hustlers attempt to obtain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop t
The King of Marvin Gardens
1972-10-13
Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer
The Sins of Rachel Cade
1961-04-02
A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.
Friday Foster
1975-12-25
Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the
Banjo the Woodpile Cat
1979-11-16
Banjo is a curious and rebellious kitten who is always getting into trouble. When he decides to jump
Detroit 9000
1973-08-01
After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white an
Chandler
1971-12-01
A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.
Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy
1976-11-01
When one of her friends goes missing, Chesty and several fellow WAVEs go looking for her and end up
Mean Dog Blues
1978-03-03
A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern chain
Walking My Baby Back Home
1953-12-06
A young man from a wealthy New York family pursues a career as the leader of a dance band.
East of Sumatra
1953-08-26
Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the
Rock Odyssey
1987-07-13
The story of a mysterious woman named Laura, who embarks on a journey to find her true love. The mov
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983-06-24
An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the
Man on the Outside
1975-06-29
A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his eyes
Lady Sings the Blues
1972-10-12
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic
Hello, Dolly!
1969-12-12
Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserl
The Great White Hope
1970-10-11
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing est
Truck Turner
1974-06-26
Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hire
Tarzan and the Trappers
1958-01-01
Tarzan goes up against a baddie by the name of Schroeder, who is trapping animals and selling them i
Meet Me at the Fair
1953-01-01
In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young b
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
1982-12-01
A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new h
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
1981-05-15
The Harlem Globetrotters' chartered plane crash lands on the atoll inhabited by the happily marooned
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
1973-08-31
Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slau
Transformers: 40th Anniversary Event
2024-04-10
This special cinema experience takes audiences back to the very beginning as the original voice acto
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
1978-09-13
Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, Disney’s Wonderful World, Walt Disney,
Johnny Dark
1954-06-25
A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George
Hook, Line and Sinker
1969-06-06
Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then lea
Alias Jesse James
1959-03-20
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in que
The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye
1986-01-01
The Autobots are running low on Energon, they leave their home planet of Cybertron to search for mor
Joys
1976-03-05
Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of
The Transformers: The Movie
1986-08-08
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leader
Between Heaven and Hell
1956-10-11
Sam Gifford remembers : In prewar years he was an arrogant southern cotton plantation owner, married
Win, Place or Steal
1975-02-01
Three friends have two things in common: (1) they like to bet on the horses at the track, and (2) th
Lady in a Cage
1964-06-10
A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
Yes Sir, Mr. Bones
1951-07-13
A young boy finds himself in a home for retired minstrel acts. He's anxious to find out as much as h
Working
1982-04-13
This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing th
Sty of the Blind Pig
1974-05-29
After moving to Chicago from the South just as the civil rights movement takes hold, the members of
Scooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters
1973-09-08
In yet another hilarious caper, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and, of course, Scooby-Doo team up with
Scooby-Doo! and the Pirates
2011-08-30
Splash into action with seafaring sleuths Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang as they collide with
The Patsy
1964-06-24
Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased e
Porgy and Bess
1959-06-24
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home t
Grandpa, Will You Run with Me?
1983-05-01
A celebration of how the very young and the very old appreciate and enjoy each other via sketches an
Tarzan and the Trappers
1958-01-01
Tarzan goes up against a baddie by the name of Schroeder, who is trapping animals and selling them i
Transformers: The Return of Optimus Prime
1987-11-17
When an alien plague turns Transformers into relentless destroyers, the universe's only hope lies in