Benjamin Sherman " Scatman " Crothers ( May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986 ) was an American actor, singer, dancer and musician known for his work as Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and as Dick Hallorann in The Shining in 1980.

The director didn't think his given name was catchy enough, so Crothers quickly concocted the handle Scat Man, although this talent, scat singing, would develop later.

), a hip take on the Lewis Carroll story that featured Sammy Davis, Jr. as a swingin ', beatnik Cheshire Cat ; the special was followed up by an audio adaptation for records ( on Hanna-Barbera's HB Records label ), but with Davis exclusive to the Reprise label, Crothers provided the Cat's record voice, and an even more exuberant spin on the character.

According to the jacket notes of the Let Freedom Sing CD set, Crothers was part of the music group The Ramparts who sang A. C. Bilbrew's " The Death of Emmett Till ".

A heavy smoker most of his life, Crothers was diagnosed with lung cancer late in 1985, but continued to perform.

It was founded in 1835 and named after Dr. Crothers, a railroad superintendent.

Their nemesis was Scat-Cat, voiced by Scatman Crothers who had previously played Hanna-Barbera's Hong Kong Phooey and a character also named Scat Cat from the Disney movie The Aristocats.

Austin Lane Crothers ( May 17, 1860 – May 25, 1912 ), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 46th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1908 to 1912.

Crothers was born near Conowingo in Cecil County, Maryland, the eighth son of Alpheus and Margaret Crothers.

In 1897, Austin Crothers was elected to the Maryland State Senate as a Democrat, replacing his brother Charles C. Crothers.

Despite being a relative unknown, Crothers was elected into office.

Crothers ' tenure as governor was notable for its reform aspects.

Crothers was sick when he left office in 1912, and eventually died at his home in Elkton on May 25 of that year.

It was passed by the Maryland General Assembly and approved by Governor Austin Lane Crothers, but it still required the approval of the people.

In 1963 a private citizen's brief to build a new zoo was introduced by Mr. Hugh Crothers to the Chairman of the Council of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, William Allen.

After Kay's divorce from Gaston, she became engaged to a society playboy, Alan Ryan Jr. She promised Alan's family that she would not return to the stage – a promise that lasted only a few months before she was back on Broadway as an aviatrix in a Rachel Crothers play, Venus.

( The character reappeared in several episodes made after Buckley's death, when he was voiced by Scatman Crothers.

Hong Kong Phooey was voiced by Scatman Crothers.

The show ’ s theme song, entitled " Hong Kong Phooey ", was written by Chester Stover, Watts Biggers, Treadwell Covington, and Joseph Harris and was sung by Scatman Crothers.

Joel Anthony Crothers ( January 28, 1941 – November 6, 1985 ) was an American actor who, in 1981, was noted by columnist Liz Smith to so strongly resemble Tom Selleck that they could be twin brothers.

* 5 February-George Crothers, cricketer ( born 1909 ).

Crothers was born in Bloomington, Illinois, USA.

Crothers started his musical career as a 15-year-old drummer in a speakeasy band in his home town of Terre Haute.

With a thriving red light district during those years ( though modest compared to the activity which existed in the first two decades of the 20th century ), Terre Haute had gambling and prostitution operations that were attractive to visitors of Capone's “ caliber .” A biography of Benjamin “ Scatman ” Crothers seems to be the source of the story that Capone stayed in Terre Haute, but this can neither be confirmed nor denied.

* 1910 – Scatman Crothers, American actor singer, dancer, and musician ( d. 1986 )

Stanford alumnus George E. Crothers became a close adviser to Jane Stanford following his graduation from Stanford's law school in 1896.

Working with his brother Thomas ( also a Stanford graduate and a lawyer ), Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully lobbied for an amendment to the California state constitution granting Stanford an exemption from taxation on its educational property — a change which allowed Jane Stanford to donate her stock holdings to the university.

* May 25 – Austin Lane Crothers, American politician ( b. 1860 ).

** Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician ( d. 1986 )

** Scatman Crothers, American actor, musician ( b. 1910 )

Eastwood directed and played the lead role in the 1980 comedy Bronco Billy alongside Locke, Scatman Crothers, and Sam Bottoms.

Another famous scat singer is Scatman Crothers who would go on to movie and television fame.

Instead, Pickens ' agent showed the script to Don Schwartz, the agent of Scatman Crothers, and Crothers accepted the role.

Scatman Crothers portrayed Louie Wilson, Ed's friend and garbage man ; Bonnie Boland played Mabel, the mail lady ; Isaac Ruiz portrayed Mando, Chico's friend ; and Ronny Graham played Rev.

Crothers formed his own band in the 1930s and traveled to Oakland California with the band in 1948, he played piano at the Port O ' Call and Walt's 405 Club.

Even though Crothers worked in television at the beginning of his career, he really came into his own in the medium doing voiceover work on several animated series, beginning with his voicework in Disney's The Aristocats.

Crothers performed on piano and drums in several bands, most notably with bandleader Slim Gaillard.

Crothers is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood, California.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.