# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scatman-crothers
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:32:13.172Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scatman-crothers"
name: "Scatman Crothers"
slug: "scatman-crothers"
description: "Benjamin Sherman \"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 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 Disney animated film The Aristocats (1970)."
tagline: "American entertainer (1910–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scatman_Crothers_-_Southern_Campus_1960_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
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birthDate: "1910-05-23"
deathDate: "1986-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump