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| Nickname: | Scatman Crothers / Scat Man Crothers / Scat-Man Crothers / |
| Known for: | The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Transformers: The Movie |
| Birth name: | Benjamin Sherman Crothers |
| Birthday: | 23 May 1910, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA |
| Height: | 5' 10" (1.78 m) |
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Trivia
Some sources erroneously credit him as Billie Holiday's jilting lover in the 1936 Duke Ellington one-reeler, "Symphony In Black", a role actually portrayed by Earl 'Snake Hips' Tucker. The song Billie sang was "Saddest Tale".
He appeared as a guest musician on the local music program, "The Spade Cooley Show" (1958). Cooley, a white Western swing musician, hosted the show for a local Los Angeles TV station.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 215-216. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
He and his wife Helen had one child, a daughter named Donna (born 1949).
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