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Scatman Crothers
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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.
Notable films
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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
The Shining
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Shootist
Appears in a KinoChain journey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
As Orderly Turkle
The Aristocats
As Scat Cat (voice)
Twilight Zone: The Movie
As Mr. Bloom
Silver Streak
As Ralston
Making 'The Shining'
As Self
Lady in a Cage
As Mr. Paul's Assistant (uncredited)
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Wicker Shadows of Folk Horror
From a wartime farce to sunlit cults and lighthouse madness, a journey through rural dread and the rituals that bind us.
8 films
The Threshold of Nowhere
From a furniture store's hidden door to the endless corridors of the mind, this chain maps the liminal spaces where dread and wonder collide.
8 films
20 Home Video Releases Every Film Obsessive Should Own
There was a brief, glorious period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when buying a film on home video felt less like acquiring a product and more like being han...
20 films
The Long Goodbye: Twilight of Heroes and Outlaws
There is a moment in Richard Lester's Robin and Marian (1976) that cuts deeper than any broadsword. Sean Connery, sporting grey in his beard and exhaustion in h...
8 films
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983 · Mr. Bloom
Making 'The Shining'
1980 · Self
The Shining
1980 · Hallorann
Silver Streak
1976 · Ralston
The Shootist
1976 · Moses
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 · Orderly Turkle
The Aristocats
1970 · Scat Cat (voice)
Lady in a Cage
1964 · Mr. Paul's Assistant (uncredited)