Scatman Crothers' Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Transformers Jazz Roots Mingo Hong Kong Phooey Hong Kong P… Penrod 'Pen… Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics Hong Kong P… Chico and the Man Louie The Super Globetrotters Liquid Man Nate Branch Pryor's Place Uncle Moses The Governor & J.J. Rupert Casablanca Sam Griff Joe Rawls Morningstar/Eveningstar Excell Dennis NBC Special Treat T.P. Jackson One of the Boys (1982) Bernard Sol… The Skatebirds Scat Cat We Got It Made Franklin

Main Movie Roles 1986 - Transformers: The Movie 1985 - The Journey of Natty Gann 1983 - Two of a Kind 1983 - Twilight Zone: The Movie 1982 - Zapped! 1980 - The Shining 1980 - Bronco Billy 1979 - Scavenger Hunt 1978 - The Cheap Detective 1976 - Stay Hungry 1976 - The Shootist 1976 - Silver Streak 1975 - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 1975 - Coonskin 1975 - Linda Lovelace for President 1974 - Black Belt Jones 1974 - Truck Turner 1972 - Lady Sings the Blues 1970 - The Great White Hope 1970 - The Aristocats 1970 - Bloody Mama 1969 - Hello, Dolly! 1966 - Three on a Couch 1964 - The Patsy 1964 - Lady in a Cage 1959 - Alias Jesse James

BIOGRAPHY:

Songwriter ("Dearest One"), actor, composer, singer, comedian, and guitarist who, after high school, appeared in night clubs, hotels, films, and on television. He made many records, including his own compositions. He joined ASCAP in 1959, and his popular-song compositions also include "The Gal Looks Good," "Nobody Knows Why," "I Was There," "A Man's Gotta Eat," and "When, Oh When."


TRIVIA:

• Was close friends with 'Jack Nicholson' (qv)
• He appeared as a guest musician on the local music program, _"The Spade Cooley Show" (1958)_ (qv). Cooley, a white Western swing musician, hosted the show for a local Los Angeles TV station.
• Some sources erroneously credit him as 'Billie Holiday' (qv)'s jilting lover in the 1936 'Duke Ellington' (qv) one-reeler, "Symphony In Black", a role actually portrayed by 'Earl 'Snake Hips' Tucker' (qv). The song Billie sang was "Saddest Tale".
• Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 215-216. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
• He is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood, California