Scatman Crothers

Scatman Crothers

1910-05-23 Terre Haute, Indiana, USA 64 Credits

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 Ph...

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Transformers: 40th Anniversary Event

Transformers: 40th Anniversary Event

2024

as Jazz (voice) (archive footage)

7.1
Acting

This special cinema experience takes audiences back to the very beginning as the original voice actors team up for the first time in decades to revisi...

Scooby-Doo! and the Pirates

Scooby-Doo! and the Pirates

2011

as (voice) (archive footage)

9.5
Acting

Splash into action with seafaring sleuths Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang as they collide with a mystery ship and try to uncover clues from a va...

Transformers: The Return of Optimus Prime

Transformers: The Return of Optimus Prime

1987

as Jazz

8.2
Acting

When an alien plague turns Transformers into relentless destroyers, the universe's only hope lies in reviving Optimus Prime, who must unite with old e...

Rock Odyssey

Rock Odyssey

1987

as Jukebox (voice)

6.8
Acting

The story of a mysterious woman named Laura, who embarks on a journey to find her true love. The movie's soundtrack is set to four decades of classic ...

The Transformers: The Movie

The Transformers: The Movie

1986

as Jazz (voice)

7.1
Acting

The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselve...

The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye

The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye

1986

as Jazz

8.6
Acting

The Autobots are running low on Energon, they leave their home planet of Cybertron to search for more sources. The Decepticons follow them and attack ...

The Journey of Natty Gann

The Journey of Natty Gann

1985

as Sherman

6.9
Acting

America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds w...

Two of a Kind

Two of a Kind

1983

as Earl

5.9
Acting

God has had enough of the bad behavior and attitude of humankind, and has decided to start it all over. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank t...

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Twilight Zone: The Movie

1983

as Mr. Bloom

6.5
Acting

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 ...

Grandpa, Will You Run with Me?

1983

as Self - Sketch Performer

Acting

A celebration of how the very young and the very old appreciate and enjoy each other via sketches and variety performances.

Missing Children: A Mother's Story

Missing Children: A Mother's Story

1982

as Mose Wheeler

6.7
Acting

A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new home, but returns to find that they have been adopt...

Deadly Eyes

Deadly Eyes

1982

as George Faskins

5.9
Acting

Corn grain contaminated with steroids produces large rats the size of small dogs who begin feeding on the residents of Toronto. Paul, a college basket...

Zapped!

Zapped!

1982

as Dexter Jones

5.2
Acting

Peyton and Barney are fun loving high school students working on a science project with white mice. When one of the mice begins to move food toward it...

Working

Working

1982

as Parking Attendant

4.3
Acting

This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a s...

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

1981

as Dewey Stevens

4.7
Acting

The Harlem Globetrotters' chartered plane crash lands on the atoll inhabited by the happily marooned Gilligan and fellow castaways, and they all must ...

Making 'The Shining'

Making 'The Shining'

1980

as Self

7.1
Acting

Directed and edited by Stanley Kubrick's daughter Vivian Kubrick, this film offers a look behind the scenes during the making of The Shining.

Bronco Billy

Bronco Billy

1980

as Doc Lynch

6.3
Acting

An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

The Shining

The Shining

1980

as Hallorann

8.2
Acting

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest...

Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger Hunt

1979

as Sam

5.6
Acting

An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars - which will only be given to the person or te...

Banjo the Woodpile Cat

Banjo the Woodpile Cat

1979

as Crazy Legs (voice)

6.3
Acting

Banjo is a curious and rebellious kitten who is always getting into trouble. When he decides to jump off a roof of a chicken coup to see if he can lan...

NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney

NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney

1978

as Self

Acting

Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, Disney’s Wonderful World, Walt Disney, The Disney Sunday Movie, The Magical World of Dis...

The Cheap Detective

The Cheap Detective

1978

as Tinker

6.3
Acting

A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of...

Mean Dog Blues

Mean Dog Blues

1978

as Mudcat

4.9
Acting

A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern chain gang.

Silver Streak

Silver Streak

1976

as Ralston

6.7
Acting

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no ...

Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy

Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy

1976

as Ben Benson

4.0
Acting

When one of her friends goes missing, Chesty and several fellow WAVEs go looking for her and end up in a world of senatorial corruption and Mafia inti...

The Shootist

The Shootist

1976

as Moses

7.1
Acting

Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from...

Stay Hungry

Stay Hungry

1976

as William

5.7
Acting

A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolished for a development project in Alabama. But after...

Joys

Joys

1976

as Self

4.0
Acting

Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of them is systematically killed (and their bodies t...

Friday Foster

Friday Foster

1975

as Reverend Noble Franklin

6.0
Acting

Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in Am...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975

as Orderly Turkle

8.4
Acting

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and...

Coonskin

Coonskin

1975

as Pappy / Old Man Bone (voice)

6.0
Acting

Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up against a con-man, a racist cop, and the Mafia...

Coonskin

Coonskin

1975

Songs

6.0

Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up against a con-man, a racist cop, and the Mafia...

Man on the Outside

Man on the Outside

1975

as Ruben Hammer

Acting

A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his eyes and his grandson is kidnapped by a syndicate kille...

The Fortune

The Fortune

1975

as Fisherman

5.3
Acting

Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.

Linda Lovelace for President

Linda Lovelace for President

1975

as Super Black

4.1
Acting

An intentionally campy film designed to capitalize on Linda Lovelace's sudden fame following "Deep Throat", this film centers around Linda's fictional...

Win, Place or Steal

Win, Place or Steal

1975

as Attendant

Acting

Three friends have two things in common: (1) they like to bet on the horses at the track, and (2) they invariably lose. One day they hit upon a scheme...

Truck Turner

Truck Turner

1974

as Duke

6.5
Acting

Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.

Sty of the Blind Pig

Sty of the Blind Pig

1974

as Doc

Acting

After moving to Chicago from the South just as the civil rights movement takes hold, the members of an African American family led by steely matriarch...

Black Belt Jones

Black Belt Jones

1974

as Pop Byrd

5.9
Acting

Jones is a secret agent who has gone into semi-retirement, concentrating instead on teaching the martial arts to inner city youths. The karate school ...

Scooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters

Scooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters

1973

as (voices)

9.2
Acting

In yet another hilarious caper, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and, of course, Scooby-Doo team up with the talented Harlem Globetrotters to solve a haunt...

Slaughter's Big Rip-Off

Slaughter's Big Rip-Off

1973

as Cleveland

4.8
Acting

Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, ...

Detroit 9000

Detroit 9000

1973

as Reverend Markham

5.4
Acting

After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together...

The King of Marvin Gardens

The King of Marvin Gardens

1972

as Lewis

5.8
Acting

Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality f...

Lady Sings the Blues

Lady Sings the Blues

1972

as Big Ben

6.9
Acting

Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic youth. The story depicts her early attempts at a s...

The Lorax

The Lorax

1972

as Singer

7.1
Acting

The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall, as he disregarded the warnings of a wise old forest cr...

Chandler

Chandler

1971

as Smoke

4.5
Acting

A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.

The Aristocats

The Aristocats

1970

as Scat Cat (voice)

7.3
Acting

When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money...

The Great White Hope

The Great White Hope

1970

as Carnival Barker (uncredited)

6.2
Acting

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

Bloody Mama

Bloody Mama

1970

as Moses

5.5
Acting

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and groo...

Hello, Dolly!

Hello, Dolly!

1969

as Mr. Jones (Porter) (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace...

Hook, Line and Sinker

Hook, Line and Sinker

1969

as The Corpse (uncredited)

4.1
Acting

Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake.

The Patsy

The Patsy

1964

as Shoeshine Boy

6.2
Acting

Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased entertainer. Stanley struggles to become a song-and...

Lady in a Cage

Lady in a Cage

1964

as Mr. Paul's Assistant (uncredited)

6.2
Acting

A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.

The Sins of Rachel Cade

The Sins of Rachel Cade

1961

as Musinga

5.5
Acting

A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.

Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess

1959

as Crabman

6.1
Acting

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy...

Alias Jesse James

Alias Jesse James

1959

as Railroad Porter (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent t...

Tarzan and the Trappers

Tarzan and the Trappers

1958

as Tyana

4.0
Acting

Tarzan goes up against a baddie by the name of Schroeder, who is trapping animals and selling them illegally to zoos. A twist is thrown into the plot ...

Tarzan and the Trappers

Tarzan and the Trappers

1958

as Tyana (as Sherman Crothers)

4.0
Acting

Tarzan goes up against a baddie by the name of Schroeder, who is trapping animals and selling them illegally to zoos. A twist is thrown into the plot ...

Between Heaven and Hell

Between Heaven and Hell

1956

as George (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

Sam Gifford remembers : In prewar years he was an arrogant southern cotton plantation owner, married to the daughter of a colonel. At the beginning of...

Johnny Dark

Johnny Dark

1954

as Himself

5.0
Acting

A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George Sherman's 1954 film stars Tony Curtis, Piper Laur...

Walking My Baby Back Home

Walking My Baby Back Home

1953

as Smiley Gordon

9.0
Acting

A young man from a wealthy New York family pursues a career as the leader of a dance band.

East of Sumatra

East of Sumatra

1953

as Baltimore (as Scat Man Crothers)

5.2
Acting

Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the jungle. Initially, the natives there are friendly...

Meet Me at the Fair

Meet Me at the Fair

1953

as Enoch Jones

7.0
Acting

In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions...

Yes Sir, Mr. Bones

Yes Sir, Mr. Bones

1951

as Scatman

4.3
Acting

A young boy finds himself in a home for retired minstrel acts. He's anxious to find out as much as he can about them, and flashbacks show what it was ...