Scatman Crothers
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Movie Credits
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
[ Eric Idle ][ Leonard Nimoy ][ Peter Cullen ][ Frank Welker ][ Orson Welles ]
The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters (1986)
[ Jonathan Winters ]
The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
[ John Cusack ][ Ray Wise ][ Ken Kirzinger ][ Don S. Davis ]
Two of a Kind (1983)
[ Gene Hackman ][ Oliver Reed ][ John Travolta ][ Ernie Hudson ][ Charles Durning ]
The Cashier and the Belly Dancer (1983)
[ Hector Elizondo ][ David Soul ]
Who Am I Killing (1983)
[ Hector Elizondo ][ David Soul ]
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
[ Albert Brooks ][ John Lithgow ][ Steven Spielberg ][ Dan Aykroyd ][ Burgess Meredith ]
Double Date (1982)
[ Nathan Lane ][ Mickey Rooney ][ Dana Carvey ]
Too Much to Loose (1982)
[ Nathan Lane ][ Mickey Rooney ][ Dana Carvey ]
Missing Children: A Mother's Story (1982)
[ Noble Willingham ]
Deadly Eyes (1982)
Zapped! (1982)
[ Willie Aames ][ Eddie Deezen ]
Banjo the Woodpile Cat (1982)
Working (1982)
[ Barry Bostwick ][ David Patrick Kelly ][ Charles Durning ]
His Old Flame (1982)
[ Nathan Lane ][ Mickey Rooney ][ Dana Carvey ]
The Lass Is Always Greener (1982)
[ Nathan Lane ][ Mickey Rooney ][ Dana Carvey ]
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981)
[ Martin Landau ][ Bob Denver ]
Bronco Billy (1980)
[ Clint Eastwood ][ Geoffrey Lewis ][ Sam Bottoms ][ Bill McKinney ]
The Shining (1980)
[ Jack Nicholson ][ Stanley Kubrick ][ Stephen King ][ John Cho ][ Tony Burton ]
Murder on the Moose Jaw Express: Part 1 (1980)
Scavenger Hunt (1979)
[ Willie Aames ][ Dirk Benedict ][ Tony Randall ][ Arnold Schwarzenegger ][ Vincent Price ]
The Puppy's Great Adventure (1979)
[ Frank Welker ]
The Congressman Was Indiscreet/Isaac's History Lesson/Winner Take Love (1978)
[ Bobby Sherman ]
High Roller (1978)
[ Red Buttons ]
The Cheap Detective (1978)
[ John Calvin ][ James Cromwell ][ David Ogden Stiers ][ Dom DeLuise ][ Abe Vigoda ]
Mean Dog Blues (1978)
[ Gregg Henry ][ George Kennedy ]
Black Tie Blues (1977)
[ Jack Albertson ]
Matchmaker, Matchmaker (1977)
[ Jack Albertson ]
Chico's Padre (1977)
[ Jack Albertson ]
Champs Ain't Chumps (1977)
Chesty Anderson, USN (1976)
[ Fred Willard ]
The Shootist (1976)
[ John Wayne ][ James Stewart ][ Ron Howard ][ Harry Morgan ][ Bill McKinney ]
Stay Hungry (1976)
[ Jeff Bridges ][ Arnold Schwarzenegger ][ Robert Englund ][ Ed Begley Jr. ]
Silver Streak (1976)
[ Fred Willard ][ Gene Wilder ][ Richard Pryor ][ Richard Kiel ][ Ned Beatty ]
Friday Foster (1975)
[ Godfrey Cambridge ][ Carl Weathers ][ Yaphet Kotto ]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
[ Brad Dourif ][ Jack Nicholson ][ Christopher Lloyd ][ Danny DeVito ][ John Cho ]
Coonskin (1975)
[ Philip Michael Thomas ]
Man on the Outside (1975)
[ Bruce Kirby ][ Lorne Greene ]
The Fortune (1975)
[ Warren Beatty ][ Jack Nicholson ][ Christopher Guest ][ John Cho ][ John Fiedler ]
Linda Lovelace for President (1975)
Win, Place or Steal (1975)
[ Harry Dean Stanton ][ Dean Stockwell ][ Russ Tamblyn ][ McLean Stevenson ]
Truck Turner (1974)
[ Isaac Hayes ][ Yaphet Kotto ]
Black Belt Jones (1974)
[ Aaron Norris ]
The Sty of the Blind Pig (1974)
Detroit 9000 (1973)
[ Alex Rocco ]
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973)
[ Art Metrano ][ George Gaynes ][ Jim Brown ]
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
[ Bruce Dern ][ Jack Nicholson ][ John Cho ][ Josh Mostel ]
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
[ Richard Pryor ][ Billy Dee Williams ]
The Loch Ness Mess (1972)
The Ghostly Creep from the Deep (1972)
Chandler (1971)
[ Warren Oates ]
The Aristocats (1970)
The Great White Hope (1970)
[ Hal Holbrook ][ James Earl Jones ]
Bloody Mama (1970)
[ Bruce Dern ][ Robert De Niro ][ Pat Hingle ]
Love and the Athlete/Love and the Dummies/Love and Mother/Love and the Shower (1969)
[ Henry Gibson ]
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
[ Walter Matthau ]
Hook, Line & Sinker (1969)
[ Jerry Lewis ]
Three on a Couch (1966)
[ Jerry Lewis ][ James Best ]
The Family Jewels (1965)
[ Jerry Lewis ]
The Patsy (1964)
[ Jerry Lewis ][ Peter Lorre ][ Jack Albertson ][ Keenan Wynn ]
Lady in a Cage (1964)
[ James Caan ]
The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)
[ Roger Moore ]
Alias Jesse James (1959)
[ Gary Cooper ][ James Garner ][ James Arness ][ Bob Hope ][ Ward Bond ]
The Gift of Love (1958)
[ Robert Stack ][ Lorne Greene ]
Tarzan and the Trappers (1958)
Between Heaven and Hell (1956)
[ Buddy Ebsen ][ Robert Wagner ]
Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)
East of Sumatra (1953)
[ Anthony Quinn ][ Peter Graves ]
Meet Me at the Fair (1953)
Yes Sir, Mr. Bones (1951)
The Return of Gilbert and Sullivan (1950)
Symphony in Black (1935)

 

African- American entertainer Scatman Crothers supported himself as a drummer throughout his high-school years. He formed a popular dance band, playing successful engagements even in the whitest of white communities, regaling audiences with his free-form "scat singing." In the formative years of television, Crothers became the first black performer to host a TV musical program in Los Angeles. He made his movie debut in the 1951 minstrel-show pastiche Yes Sir, Mr. Bones (1951). The best of his 1950s film appearances was as Dan Dailey's medicine-show partner in Meet Me at the Fair (1952). For the next three decades, Crother's movie roles varied in size; he was seen to best advantage as the concerned handyman in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). Adult TV fans will remember Scatman Crothers as Louie the garbageman on the 1970s sitcom Chico and the Man; Crothers also did voice-over work in the title role of the Saturday morning cartoon series Hong Kong Phooey.


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