Scatman Crothers

1910–1986 · American entertainer

Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers was an American actor and musician. He is known for playing Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and Dick Hallorann in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). He was also a prolific voice actor who provided the voices of Meadowlark Lemon in the Harlem Globetrotters animated TV series, Jazz the Autobot in The Transformers and The Transformers: The Movie (1986), the title character in Hong Kong Phooey, and Scat Cat in the Disney animated film The Aristocats (1970).

Scatman Crothers, in order

1. 1953 East of Sumatra: acted · directed by Budd Boetticher
2. 1953 Meet Me at the Fair: acted · directed by Douglas Sirk
3. 1953 Walking My Baby Back Home: acted · directed by Lloyd Bacon
4. 1958 Tarzan and the Trappers (TV movie): acted · directed by Charles F. Haas and H. Bruce Humberstone
5. 1959 Alias Jesse James: acted · directed by Norman Z. McLeod
6. 1961 The Sins of Rachel Cade: acted · directed by Gordon Douglas
7. 1964 Lady in a Cage: acted · directed by Walter Grauman
8. 1964 The Patsy: acted · directed by Jerry Lewis
9. 1966 Three on a Couch: acted · directed by Jerry Lewis
10. 1969 Hello, Dolly!: acted · directed by Gene Kelly
11. 1970 Bloody Mama: acted · directed by Roger Corman · critics 13%, audiences 41% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Fawesome
12. 1970 Harlem Globetrotters (TV series): acted
13. 1970 The Great White Hope: acted · directed by Martin Ritt · critics 33%, audiences 66%
14. 1972 Lady Sings the Blues: acted · directed by Sidney J. Furie
15. 1972 The King of Marvin Gardens: acted · directed by Bob Rafelson
16. 1974 Black Belt Jones: acted · directed by Robert Clouse
17. 1974 Coonskin: acted · directed by Ralph Bakshi
18. 1974 Truck Turner: acted · directed by Jonathan Kaplan
19. 1975 Linda Lovelace for President: acted · directed by Arthur Marks and Claudio Guzmán
20. 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: acted · directed by Miloš Forman · critics 92%, audiences 96%
21. 1975 The Fortune: acted · directed by Mike Nichols · critics 40%, audiences 34% · streaming on Prime Video
22. 1976 Silver Streak: acted · directed by Arthur Hiller
23. 1976 Stay Hungry: acted · directed by Bob Rafelson · critics 67%, audiences 40% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
24. 1976 The Shootist: acted · directed by Don Siegel · critics 79%, audiences 88% · streaming on Paramount+, Kanopy, Hoopla
25. 1978 Mean Dog Blues: acted · directed by Mel Stuart
26. 1978 The Cheap Detective: acted · directed by Robert Moore
27. 1979 Scavenger Hunt: acted · directed by Michael Schultz · audiences 74% · streaming on Plex, Tubi
28. 1980 Bronco Billy: acted · directed by Clint Eastwood
29. 1980 Making 'The Shining' (short film): acted · directed by Vivian Kubrick
30. 1980 The Shining: acted · directed by Stanley Kubrick · critics 75%, audiences 93%
31. 1982 Deadly Eyes: acted · directed by Robert Clouse
32. 1982 One of the Boys (TV series): acted
33. 1982 Zapped!: acted · directed by Robert J. Rosenthal
34. 1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie: acted · directed by George Miller and Joe Dante · critics 59%, audiences 55% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Kanopy
35. 1983 Two of a Kind: acted · directed by John Herzfeld · critics 18%, audiences 37%
36. 1985 The Journey of Natty Gann: acted · directed by Jeremy Kagan · critics 91%, audiences 78% · streaming on Disney+
37. 1987 Rock Odyssey: acted · directed by Joseph Barbera and Robert Taylor