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Scatman Crothers

Zapped!

Twilight Zone: The Movie [HD DVD]

Lady Sings the Blues [Special Collector's Edition]

Lady in a Cage

The Great White Hope

The Silver Streak

The Patsy

Two of a Kind

AKA: Sherman Scatman Crothers

Born: 05/23/1910 Terre Haute, IN

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Biography: African- American entertainer Scatman Crothers supported himself as a drummer throughout his high-school years. He formed a popular dance band, playing successful engagements even in the whitest of white communities, regaling audiences with his free-form "scat singing." In the formative years of television, Crothers became the first black performer to host a TV musical program in Los Angeles. He made his movie debut in the 1951 minstrel-show pastiche Yes Sir, Mr. Bones (1951). The best of his 1950s film appearances was as Dan Dailey's medicine-show partner in Meet Me at the Fair (1952). For the next three decades, Crother's movie roles varied in size; he was seen to best advantage as the concerned handyman in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). Adult TV fans will remember Scatman Crothers as Louie the garbageman on the 1970s sitcom Chico and the Man; Crothers also did voice-over work in the title role of the Saturday morning cartoon series Hong Kong Phooey. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

DVDs that Scatman Crothers appeared in...

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02/12/2008 - Zapped!
10/09/2007 - Twilight Zone: The Movie [HD DVD]
04/25/2006 - Chesty Anderson, U.S. Navy
11/08/2005 - Lady Sings the Blues [Special Collector's Edition]
03/29/2005 - Lady in a Cage
01/11/2005 - The Great White Hope
12/14/2004 - The Silver Streak
10/12/2004 - The Patsy
06/01/2004 - Two of a Kind
05/18/2004 - Stay Hungry