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