Scatman Crothers
Acting
🎂 1910-05-23
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.
Cast credits(112)
Self
1962
Virgil Gibson
1977
Tickler
1980
1964
Self
1961
George Strothers
1968
Jason
1967
1967
1982
1981
1977
1975
Gaylord Fuller
1973
Hallorann
1980
Jazz (voice)
1984
Walt
1978
One-Man Band
1969
1982
Blind Man
1970
1978
Self
1950
1976
Timothy
1955
Orderly Turkle
1975
Scat Cat (voice)
1970
Musinga
1961
1956
Floyd
1971
Johnson
1950
1972
(voice)
1979
Uncle Filemon
1974
Self
1982
Mingo
1977
Meadowlark Lemon (voice)
1972
1978
Self
1973
Hong Kong Phooey (voice)
1977
Jack
1971
Jazz (voice)
1986
Hong Kong Phooey (voice)
1974
Train Attendant (uncredited)
1960
Louie
1974
Mr. Bloom
1983
1972
William
1976
Ralston
1976
Dexter Jones
1982
Joe
1959
1985
Mr. Jones (Porter) (uncredited)
1969
Singer
1972
Reverend Noble Franklin
1975
Tinker
1978
Sam
1983
Super Black
1975
Doc Lynch
1980
Moses
1976
Earl
1983
1982
Cleveland
1973
Jazz (voice) (archive footage)
2024
Railroad Porter (uncredited)
1959
Sherman
1985
Pappy / Old Man Bone (voice)
1975
Joe Rawls
1973
Sam
1979
1970
Nate Branch / Liquid Man (voice)
1979
Mose Wheeler
1982
Himself
1954
Baltimore (as Scat Man Crothers)
1953
The Corpse (uncredited)
1969
George Faskins
1982
Enoch Jones
1953
Moses
1970
George (uncredited)
1956
Self
1976
Self
1983
Fisherman
1975
Jazz
1987
Parking Attendant
1982
Mudcat
1978
Smiley Gordon
1953
Dewey Stevens
1981
Self - Sketch Performer
1983
1982
Smoke
1971
(voice) (archive footage)
2011
Lewis
1972
Duke
1974
Reverend Markham
1973
Big Ben
1972
Self
1978
(voices)
1973
Crabman
1959
Carnival Barker (uncredited)
1970
Ben Benson
1976
Ruben Hammer
1975
Tyana
1958
Tyana (as Sherman Crothers)
1958
Shoeshine Boy
1964
Pop Byrd
1974
Jukebox (voice)
1987
Mr. Paul's Assistant (uncredited)
1964
Jazz (voice)
1986
Crazy Legs (voice)
1979
1986
Attendant
1975
Self
1980
Scatman
1951
Doc
1974