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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Benjamin Sherman Crothers, known professionally as Scatman Crothers, was an American actor and musician. He is known for playing 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 voice-over 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).

American - Actor | May 23, 1910 - November 22, 1986

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The Shining is my fourth picture with Jack Nicholson, or as he says, our fourth 'classic.'

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I'm a connoisseur of sausage.

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We played, jazz, blues, dixie, and it all came from the church. When I went to church, I would see the sisters and brothers doing the same beat.

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Now that I'm older, I couldn't do music full-time. You don't get home until two or three a.m. Acting, you can be at home with your family.

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I always kept busy. If the music business got bad I'd get me a job doin' somethin' else. Bellhop. Porter. Anything to make an honest living.

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The Bible is the book I read. It's got answers for everything.

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Guy asked me, 'Scat, what is there left for you to do?' And I said, 'A Broadway play, man!' Can you dig it? That's the only thing I never done. I'd like to say I had.

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I'm 70 years old. I'm a young man, and I've still got a lot to learn, that's right, and I'm learning every day.

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The first paid gig? It was back home in Terre Haute, Indiana, back in 1925, '26, when I was going to high school and working in a speakeasy.

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I've had a group ever since '36, off and on.

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Age ain't nothing but a figure. Let's go out there and play some kick the can. It's all in the mind; let's become kids. That's been my philosophy of life anyhow, man.

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I love people. You've gotta keep that love in your heart for your fellow man.

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Can you imagine what five or 10 dollars was like in 1925? In those days, you could get room and board for $1.50 a week. Room and board!

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It's a tough business, yes it is. But I've been fortunate. The only real hard times I had was when I was with Montague's Kentucky Serenades. We really had it tough then.

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Jack Nicholson and I have been friends ever since we met while doing 'The King of Marvin Gardens.'

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I got simple tastes. Don't go in for all that flashy business.

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I was the first black man on television.

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You ain't no more than me, and I ain't no more than you. We're all God's children.

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You know, I'd forget words and start just singing noises.

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I admit, music is my first love. I enjoy acting but I couldn't give up my music.

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I went to the driving range and hit a couple of good shots and I was hooked. Now I have six putters, including one engraved with my name.

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Oh, sure, I love boxing.

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Color don't mean nothin'. 'Cause we're all God's children.

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Even after I got started in TV and the movies, I didn't sit around waiting on parts. I kept busy.

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I was about to be a preacher, but I was a sinner.

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A lot of people in Hollywood are on that ego trip. They think they're more than somebody else. I've told a lot of stars in my career, 'Hey, man you're looking down on the people who made you. lf you keep doing that, you're gonna fall back down.'

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Spiritually, I'm Jewish.

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I get a kick out of just working, making people happy - whether it be in the movies or just playing my guitar.

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I was brought up in church, but when I confessed my errors, they put me out.

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I worked on a weekly one-hour show live from Los Angeles called 'The Dixie Boat Show.' We only had one camera, so there was a lot of panning because it was always on, and anything that went wrong, from actors fluffing their lines to sets falling down in mid-scene, you let it go by.

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You can be dressed the best and have a wicked heart.

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I came out with my five-piece group and opened at Billy Burke's Swing Oar. This was when Hollywood was really jumpin'. This was when Frankie Laine used to come in and ask if he could sing a number.

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You know, it's nice being an overnight success after 50 years.

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I've been an actor all of my life, but not professionally.

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To be honest , I looked at 'The Shining' as just doing another movie.

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I learned when I was a kid not to worry so much about things because it's all going to work out. What will be will be.

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I really don't enjoy watching myself perform. That's why I usually don't go to see my movies.

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I don't get excited or riled easily.

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As a kid, I used to take the sheet off of my mother's bed, make a tent and put on a show for the neighborhood kids and charge them two packs of matches. Then, the show got so good I started charging a penny.

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We are all stars in this galaxy. All of us. No one's greater than the other.

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I think it's so foolish for people to try and hide their age. I don't understand that. You should be happy and glad to be living.

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Terre Haute. They used to call it 'Terrible Hut' because it was so wide open. Gambling, red light district, speak-easies. I entertained for all the gangsters. Can't name a gangster that didn't come into the place where I worked.

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I was busy enough when I was just a musician. I wasn't making all that much money but I was busy.

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Color don't mean anything. People gonna try to put you in a place one way or the other.

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My acting has got to be natural. I didn't go to any drama schools. It's a gift from God.

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Call me the Scatman. I do quite a bit of scattin'.

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