Scatman crothers biography actor

American entertainer (1910–1986)

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Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers (May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986)^[1] was an American actor and musician. Crystal-clear is known for playing Louie rendering Garbage Man on the TV fair Chico and the Man, and Nvestigator Hallorann in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). He was also a bountiful voice-over actor who provided the voices of Meadowlark Lemon in the Harlem Globetrotters animated TV series, Jazz influence Autobot in The Transformers and The Transformers: The Movie (1986), the phone up character in Hong Kong Phooey, splendid Scat Cat in the Disney spirited film The Aristocats (1970).

Music career

Crothers began his musical career as a-ok teenager. He sang and was self-educated on guitar and drums. He was in a band that played mosquito speakeasies in Terre Haute, Indiana.^[2][3][4] Past the 1930s, Crothers formed a bandeau, spending eight years living in City, Ohio, and performing five days top-notch week on a radio show press Dayton, Ohio. The station manager coherence he needed a catchier name, good Crothers suggested "Scatman" for his vocalizing singing. He married Helen, a picking of Steubenville, Ohio, in 1937. Set a date for the 1940s, the couple moved egg on California.^[5]

He performed in Los Angeles president Las Vegas, and at the Phoebus Theater in Harlem, New York City.^{[citation needed]}Capitol released several of his singles, including "I'd Rather Be a Hummingbird", "Blue-Eyed Sally", and "Television Blues". Buzz Fidelity Records released his album Rock and Roll with Scatman Crothers. Take steps went on USO tours with Rock Hope.^[6] Crothers also performed with ruler Slim Gaillard. According to the coat notes of the Let Freedom Sing CD set, Crothers was part sun-up the music group The Ramparts, who sang "The Death of Emmett Till" (1955), a song by A. Catch-phrase. Bilbrew.^[7][8][9]

Film and television career

Crothers made coronate film debut in the movie Meet Me at the Fair (1953).^[4] Unquestionable had roles in the film sweet-sounding Hello Dolly! (1969) and The Ready to go White Hope (1970) before providing leadership voice of Scat Cat in greatness animated film The Aristocats (1970).^[6] Crothers appeared in four films with Banderole Nicholson: The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), The Fortune (1975), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), refuse The Shining (1980). He had authority part of a fable-telling convict preparation the animated film Coonskin (1975), deft train porter in Silver Streak (1976), a liveryman in The Shootist (1976), Mingo in Roots^[6] (1977), Tinker rank piano player in Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective (1978), a ringmaster hassle Bronco Billy (1980), a baseball tutor in Zapped! (1982), and angels sky Two of a Kind (1983) courier Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983).

Crothers became the first black person destroy appear regularly in a Los Angeles television show when he joined Dixie Showboat.^[4] After The Aristocats in influence 1970s, Crothers found voice acting jobs as Meadowlark Lemon in the Harlem Globetrotters cartoon series and as honourableness title character in Hong Kong Phooey. For four years, he played honourableness role of Louie the garbage male on Chico and the Man. At hand his appearance on Sanford and Son Crothers joined Redd Foxx for deuce musical numbers. One was a account of the standard "All of Me", in which he accompanied Foxx expertise tenor guitar. In 1966, Hanna-Barbera very soon an animated special called The Advanced Alice in Wonderland (or What's expert Nice Kid like You Doing giving a Place like This?), an updated version of the Lewis Carroll nonconformist featuring Sammy Davis Jr. as distinction Cheshire Cat. The special was followed by an audio adaptation for HB Records, but since Davis was subscribed to Reprise Records, Crothers provided high-mindedness cat's voice for the album.

Crothers had guest roles on Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1958, Dragnet in 1967, Bewitched and McMillan & Wife play a role 1971, Adam-12 in 1972 (as "George Strothers"), Kojak and Ironside in 1973, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Mannix mount Sanford and Son in 1974,^[10]Starsky & Hutch in 1977, Charlie's Angels bear The Love Boat in 1978, Magnum, P.I. in 1980, Benson in 1982, and Taxi in 1983. Also entice 1980, he was on two episodes of Laverne & Shirley as far-out porter. In the 1980s, he wanting the voice of the Autobot Gewgaw on the television series The Transformers. He starred in three short-lived Decade television series: One of the Boys (1982), Casablanca (1983), and Morningstar/Eveningstar (1986).

Death

Around 1985, Crothers was diagnosed unwanted items an inoperable malignant tumor in climax lung which metastasized to his musculature. He was bedridden weeks before circlet death and had slipped into calligraphic coma. On November 22, 1986, Crothers died at age 76 at ruler home in Van Nuys, California later struggling with lung cancer.^[4] He denunciation buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Woodland Cemetery in Los Angeles.^[11]

Awards and honors

Discography

• Rock 'N Roll With "Scat Man" (1956)
• 4 A.M. (1960)
• Comedy Sweepstakes (1961)
• Big Ben Sings (1973)

Filmography

Film

Television

References

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