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Scatman Crothers

Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers 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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Terre Haute, Indiana, USA, 1910-05-23

Died: 1986-11-22

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Yes Sir, Mr. Bones	Scatman	43
2	1953	Meet Me at the Fair	Enoch Jones	70
3	1953	East of Sumatra	Baltimore (as Scat Man Crothers)	52
4	1953	Walking My Baby Back Home	Smiley Gordon	90
5	1954	Johnny Dark	Himself	50
6	1956	Between Heaven and Hell	George (uncredited)	59
7	1958	Tarzan and the Trappers	Tyana	40
8	1958	Tarzan and the Trappers	Tyana (as Sherman Crothers)	40
9	1959	Alias Jesse James	Railroad Porter (uncredited)	58
10	1959	Porgy and Bess	Crabman	61
11	1961	The Sins of Rachel Cade	Musinga	61
12	1964	Lady in a Cage	Mr. Paul's Assistant (uncredited)	62
13	1964	The Patsy	Shoeshine Boy	62
14	1969	Hook, Line and Sinker	The Corpse (uncredited)	41
15	1969	Hello, Dolly!	Mr. Jones (Porter) (uncredited)	70
16	1970	Bloody Mama	Moses	55
17	1970	The Great White Hope	Carnival Barker (uncredited)	62
18	1970	The Aristocats	Scat Cat (voice)	73
19	1971	Chandler	Smoke	45
20	1972	The Lorax	Singer	71
21	1972	Lady Sings the Blues	Big Ben	69
22	1972	The King of Marvin Gardens	Lewis	58
23	1973	Detroit 9000	Reverend Markham	54
24	1973	Slaughter's Big Rip-Off	Cleveland	48
25	1973	Scooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters	(voices)	92
26	1974	Black Belt Jones	Pop Byrd	59
27	1974	Sty of the Blind Pig	Doc	0
28	1974	Truck Turner	Duke	65
29	1975	Win, Place or Steal	Attendant	0
30	1975	Linda Lovelace for President	Super Black	41
31	1975	The Fortune	Fisherman	54
32	1975	Man on the Outside	Ruben Hammer	0
33	1975	Coonskin	Pappy / Old Man Bone (voice)	60
34	1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Orderly Turkle	84
35	1975	Friday Foster	Reverend Noble Franklin	60
36	1976	Joys	Self	40
37	1976	Stay Hungry	William	57
38	1976	The Shootist	Moses	70
39	1976	Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy	Ben Benson	40
40	1976	Silver Streak	Ralston	67
41	1978	Mean Dog Blues	Mudcat	49
42	1978	The Cheap Detective	Tinker	63
43	1978	NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney	Self	0
44	1979	Banjo the Woodpile Cat	Crazy Legs (voice)	63
45	1979	Scavenger Hunt	Sam	56
46	1980	The Shining	Hallorann	82
47	1980	Bronco Billy	Doc Lynch	63
48	1980	Making 'The Shining'	Self	71
49	1981	The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island	Dewey Stevens	47
50	1982	Working	Parking Attendant	43
51	1982	Zapped!	Dexter Jones	52
52	1982	Deadly Eyes	George Faskins	59
53	1982	Missing Children: A Mother's Story	Mose Wheeler	67
54	1983	Grandpa, Will You Run with Me?	Self - Sketch Performer	0
55	1983	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Mr. Bloom	65
56	1983	Two of a Kind	Earl	59
57	1985	The Journey of Natty Gann	Sherman	69
58	1986	The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye	Jazz (voice)	86
59	1986	The Transformers: The Movie	Jazz (voice)	72
60	1987	Rock Odyssey	Jukebox (voice)	68
61	1987	Transformers: The Return of Optimus Prime	Jazz	82
62	2011	Scooby-Doo! and the Pirates	(voice) (archive footage)	95
63	2024	Transformers: 40th Anniversary Event	Jazz (archive audio)	71

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	68
2	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Johnson	63
3	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Timothy	77
4	1956	The Adventures of Jim Bowie		50
5	1959	Bourbon Street Beat	Joe	50
6	1960	Johnny Midnight	Train Attendant (uncredited)	0
7	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
8	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
9	1964	Bewitched		79
10	1967	Ironside	Jason	68
11	1967	Mannix		67
12	1968	Adam-12	George Strothers	69
13	1969	Love, American Style	One-Man Band	61
14	1970	Harlem Globetrotters		60
15	1970	The Odd Couple	Blind Man	78
16	1971	Nichols	Jack	50
17	1971	McMillan & Wife	Floyd	69
18	1972	Sanford and Son		74
19	1972	The New Scooby-Doo Movies	Meadowlark Lemon (voice)	77
20	1972	Temperatures Rising		50
21	1973	The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts	Self	54
22	1973	Griff	Joe Rawls	50
23	1973	Kojak	Gaylord Fuller	70
24	1974	Hong Kong Phooey	Hong Kong Phooey (voice)	65
25	1974	Chico and the Man	Louie	58
26	1974	Kolchak: The Night Stalker	Uncle Filemon	76
27	1975	Starsky & Hutch		72
28	1976	Laverne & Shirley		72
29	1977	Roots	Mingo	74
30	1977	Scooby's Laff-A Lympics	Hong Kong Phooey (voice)	81
31	1977	The Love Boat	Virgil Gibson	63
32	1977	The Incredible Hulk		72
33	1978	Taxi	Walt	73
34	1978	Vega$		70
35	1978	Flying High		45
36	1979	The Super Globetrotters	Nate Branch / Liquid Man (voice)	78
37	1979	Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo	(voice)	75
38	1980	Magnum, P.I.	Tickler	73
39	1981	Hill Street Blues		76
40	1982	One of the Boys		43
41	1982	Hotel		68
42	1982	Madame's Place	Self	73
43	1982	Matt Houston		62
44	1982	It Takes Two		50
45	1983	Casablanca	Sam	53
46	1983	This Is Your Life	Self	0
47	1984	The Transformers	Jazz (voice)	78
48	1985	Paw Paws		80
49	1986	Morningstar/Eveningstar		60