Benjamin Sherman Crothers (May 23, 1910 â€" November 22, 1986), known
professionally as Scatman Crothers, was an American actor and
musician. He played 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 voiceover 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 animated film The
Aristocats (1970).Crothers was born in Terre Haute, Indiana.He began
his musical career as a teenager. He sang and was self-educated on
guitar and drums. He was in a band that played in speakeasies in Terre
Haute.During the 1930s, he formed a band, spent eight years living in
Akron, Ohio, and performed five days week on a radio show in Dayton,
Ohio. The station manager thought he needed a catchier name, so
Crothers suggested "Scatman" for his scat singing. He married Helen, a
native of Steubenville, Ohio, in 1937. In the 1940s, the couple moved
to California.
professionally as Scatman Crothers, was an American actor and
musician. He played 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 voiceover 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 animated film The
Aristocats (1970).Crothers was born in Terre Haute, Indiana.He began
his musical career as a teenager. He sang and was self-educated on
guitar and drums. He was in a band that played in speakeasies in Terre
Haute.During the 1930s, he formed a band, spent eight years living in
Akron, Ohio, and performed five days week on a radio show in Dayton,
Ohio. The station manager thought he needed a catchier name, so
Crothers suggested "Scatman" for his scat singing. He married Helen, a
native of Steubenville, Ohio, in 1937. In the 1940s, the couple moved
to California.
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