ACTOR

Scatman Crothers

1910 - 1986

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Benjamin Sherman “Scatman” Crothers (May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986) 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Scatman Crothers has received more than 3,561,297 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Scatman Crothers is the 2,049th most popular actor (down from 1,774th in 2019), the 3,344th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,956th in 2019) and the 947th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Scatman Crothers by language

Over the past year Scatman Crothers has had the most page views in the with 453,542 views, followed by Italian (22,745), and Spanish (20,922). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (211.35%), Simple English (118.46%), and Afrikaans (61.51%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Scatman Crothers ranks 2,049 out of 13,578. Before him are Liya Akhedzhakova, Frank Welker, Haing S. Ngor, Fred Willard, Lon Chaney, and Jeffrey Hunter. After him are Fiona Shaw, Hill Harper, Lindsay Lohan, Ken Kercheval, Ralf Moeller, and Steve Harvey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Scatman Crothers ranks 134. Before him are Artie Shaw, Alex North, Barbara O'Neil, Aleksandar Tirnanić, Franz Kline, and Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow. After him are Rachel Kempson, Josef Klaus, Josef Tal, Gerhard Schröder, Wolfgang Preiss, and Joy Adamson. Among people deceased in 1986, Scatman Crothers ranks 108. Before him are Michael J. Smith, Valentin Kataev, Artur London, Raúl Prebisch, Princess Anne of Orléans, and Judith Resnik. After him are Megumu Tamura, Vitaly Abalakov, Dick Scobee, Fumiko Enchi, James H. Wilkinson, and Oscar Zariski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Scatman Crothers ranks 3,344 out of 20,380. Before him are Marcus Miller (1959), Ice Cube (1969), Lon Chaney (1883), Robert Gallo (1937), Walter Hunt (1796), and Jeffrey Hunter (1926). After him are Wilson Pickett (1941), Hill Harper (1966), Lindsay Lohan (1986), Sandra Day O'Connor (1930), Ken Kercheval (1935), and Patti Page (1927).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Scatman Crothers ranks 947. Before him are William Conrad (1920), David Butler (1894), Frank Welker (1946), Fred Willard (1939), Lon Chaney (1883), and Jeffrey Hunter (1926). After him are Hill Harper (1966), Lindsay Lohan (1986), Ken Kercheval (1935), Steve Harvey (1957), Mamie Van Doren (1931), and Angélica María (1943).

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Television and Movie Roles

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Orderly Turkle
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Nov 19o 19758.421 / 10
The Shining
Dick Hallorann
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
May 23o 19808.219 / 10
The Aristocats
Scat Cat (voice)
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.
Dec 24o 19707.291 / 10