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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

112

Gender

Male

Birthday

1910-05-22

Deathday

1986-11-21 (76 years old)

Place of Birth

Terre Haute, Indiana, USA

Also Known As

Benjamin Crothers
Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers
Benjamin Sherman Crothers
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Scatman Crothers

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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Acting

2024

Transformers: 40th Anniversary Event as Jazz (archive audio)

2011

Scooby-Doo! and the Pirates as (voice) (archive footage)

1987		Transformers: The Return of Optimus Prime as Jazz
1987		Rock Odyssey as Jukebox (voice)

1986		The Transformers: The Movie as Jazz (voice)
1986		Morningstar/Eveningstar
1986		The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye as Jazz

1985		The Journey of Natty Gann as Sherman
1985		Paw Paws

1984

The Transformers as Jazz (voice)

1983		Two of a Kind as Earl
1983		This Is Your Life as Self
1983		Twilight Zone: The Movie as Mr. Bloom
1983		Grandpa, Will You Run with Me? as Self - Sketch Performer
1983		Casablanca as Sam

1982		Missing Children: A Mother's Story as Mose Wheeler
1982		Deadly Eyes as George Faskins
1982		It Takes Two
1982		Matt Houston
1982		Madame's Place as Self
1982		Hotel
1982		Zapped! as Dexter Jones
1982		Working as Parking Attendant
1982		One of the Boys

1981		The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island as Dewey Stevens
1981		Hill Street Blues

1980		Magnum, P.I. as Tickler
1980		Making 'The Shining' as Self
1980		Bronco Billy as Doc Lynch
1980		The Shining as Hallorann

1979		Scavenger Hunt as Sam
1979		Banjo the Woodpile Cat as Crazy Legs (voice)
1979		Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo as (voice)
1979		The Super Globetrotters as Nate Branch / Liquid Man (voice)

1978		Flying High
1978		Vega$
1978		NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney as Self
1978		Taxi as Walt
1978		The Cheap Detective as Tinker
1978		Mean Dog Blues as Mudcat

1977		The Incredible Hulk
1977		The Love Boat as Virgil Gibson
1977		Scooby's Laff-A Lympics as Hong Kong Phooey (voice)
1977		Roots as Mingo

1976		Silver Streak as Ralston
1976		Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy as Ben Benson
1976		The Shootist as Moses
1976		Stay Hungry as William
1976		Joys as Self
1976		Laverne & Shirley

1975		Friday Foster as Reverend Noble Franklin
1975		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Orderly Turkle
1975		Starsky & Hutch
1975		Coonskin as Pappy / Old Man Bone (voice)
1975		Man on the Outside as Ruben Hammer
1975		The Fortune as Fisherman
1975		Linda Lovelace for President as Super Black
1975		Win, Place or Steal as Attendant

1974		Kolchak: The Night Stalker as Uncle Filemon
1974		Chico and the Man as Louie
1974		Hong Kong Phooey as Hong Kong Phooey (voice)
1974		Truck Turner as Duke
1974		Sty of the Blind Pig as Doc
1974		Black Belt Jones as Pop Byrd

1973		Kojak as Gaylord Fuller
1973		Griff as Joe Rawls
1973		The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts as Self
1973		Scooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters as (voices)
1973		Slaughter's Big Rip-Off as Cleveland
1973		Detroit 9000 as Reverend Markham

1972		The King of Marvin Gardens as Lewis
1972		Lady Sings the Blues as Big Ben
1972		Temperatures Rising
1972		The New Scooby-Doo Movies as Meadowlark Lemon (voice)
1972		The Lorax as Singer
1972		Sanford and Son

1971		Chandler as Smoke
1971		McMillan & Wife as Floyd
1971		Nichols as Jack

1970		The Aristocats as Scat Cat (voice)
1970		The Great White Hope as Carnival Barker (uncredited)
1970		The Odd Couple as Blind Man
1970		Harlem Globetrotters
1970		Bloody Mama as Moses

1969		Hello, Dolly! as Mr. Jones (Porter) (uncredited)
1969		Love, American Style as One-Man Band
1969		Hook, Line and Sinker as The Corpse (uncredited)

1968

Adam-12 as George Strothers

1967		Mannix
1967		Ironside as Jason

1964		Bewitched
1964		The Patsy as Shoeshine Boy
1964		Lady in a Cage as Mr. Paul's Assistant (uncredited)

1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self

1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961		The Sins of Rachel Cade as Musinga

1960

Johnny Midnight as Train Attendant (uncredited)

1959		Bourbon Street Beat as Joe
1959		Porgy and Bess as Crabman
1959		Alias Jesse James as Railroad Porter (uncredited)

1958		Tarzan and the Trappers as Tyana
1958		Tarzan and the Trappers as Tyana (as Sherman Crothers)

1956		Between Heaven and Hell as George (uncredited)
1956		The Adventures of Jim Bowie

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Timothy

1954

Johnny Dark as Himself

1953		Walking My Baby Back Home as Smiley Gordon
1953		East of Sumatra as Baltimore (as Scat Man Crothers)
1953		Meet Me at the Fair as Enoch Jones

1951

Yes Sir, Mr. Bones as Scatman

1950		Lux Video Theatre as Johnson
1950		The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self

Sound

1975

Coonskin as Songs