Biography
Scatman Crothers was an American actor and musician. Born Benjamin Sherman Crothers on 23 May 1910 in Terre Haute, Indiana, he died on 22 November 1986 in Van Nuys, California.
He began performing as a musician in the 1920s and appeared in films from the 1950s. Crothers played Dick Hallorann in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) and Orderly Turkle in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). He voiced Scat Cat in the animated film The Aristocats (1970) and Jazz in The Transformers (1984) and The Transformers: The Movie (1986). He also played Louie the Garbage Man in the television series Chico and the Man.
