Cast: Scatman Crothers

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Scatman Crothers. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Milos Forman

Cast Jack Nicholson · Louise Fletcher · Brad Dourif · William Redfield

Synopsis A misbehaved con named McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), who shirks authority, finds himself in an asylum after faking insanity to get out of work detail in prison. The troublemaker soon finds himself in a place that's worse than prison when he...

8.3

109K votes

8.3

109K votes

The Shining

1980 · Movie · 146 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Jack Nicholson · Shelley Duvall · Danny Lloyd · Scatman Crothers

Synopsis Writer Jack Torrance takes a job as a winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the remote Colorado mountains. He moves in, along with his wife Wendy and son Danny, in the hope that the isolation will cure his writer’s...

8.2

145K votes

8.2

145K votes

Coonskin (Street Fight)

1975 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Bakshi

Cast Barry White · Charles Gordone · Scatman Crothers · Philip Michael Thomas

Synopsis A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracket the animated story of Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox, who rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up...

6.7

120 votes

6.7

120 votes

The Shootist

1976 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast John Wayne · Lauren Bacall · Ron Howard · James Stewart

Synopsis The last film of John Wayne, The Shootist, could not have been more fitting, full of details that can't help but make one reflect upon his legacy in the movies and his life as a star. Wayne plays a career...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Making 'The Shining'

1980 · Documentary · 35 min. · United States

Direction Vivian Kubrick

Cast Jack Nicholson · Stanley Kubrick · Danny Lloyd · Scatman Crothers

Synopsis A look behind the scenes during the making of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

6.6

758 votes

6.6

758 votes

The Patsy

1964 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Ina Balin · Everett Sloane · Phil Harris

Synopsis When a star comedian dies, his comedy team, decides to train a nobody to fill the shoes of the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man they choose, bellboy Stanley Belt, cant do anything right. The...

6.4

255 votes

6.4

255 votes

Twilight Zone: The Movie

1983 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction John Landis · Steven Spielberg · Joe Dante · George Miller

Cast Dan Aykroyd · Albert Brooks · Scatman Crothers · John Lithgow

Synopsis Four horror/sci-fi segments directed by four famous directors which are their own versions of classic stories from Rod Serling's landmark television series

6.4

6K votes

6.4

6K votes

Lady Sings the Blues

1972 · Movie · 144 min. · United States

Direction Sidney J. Furie

Cast Diana Ross · Billy Dee Williams · Richard Pryor · James T. Callahan

Synopsis Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Diana Ross made her film debut opposite Billy Dee Williams in this romantic biopic. LADY SINGS THE BLUES captures the essence of Billie Holliday in this semi-biographic sketch of...

6.3

277 votes

6.3

277 votes

Silver Streak

1976 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Gene Wilder · Jill Clayburgh · Richard Pryor · Patrick McGoohan

Synopsis A cross-country express train is the setting for this very engaging mystery-comedy. Wilder plays an editor who gets involved in a murder plot.

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

Bloody Mama

1970 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Roger Corman

Cast Shelley Winters · Robert De Niro · Bruce Dern · Pat Hingle

Synopsis A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era. Her loyal brood have every perversion imaginable. The sadistic Herman sleeps with his Ma....

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Between Heaven and Hell

1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Robert Wagner · Terry Moore · Broderick Crawford · Buddy Ebsen

Synopsis Sam Gifford remembers: In prewar years he was an arrogant southern cotton plantation owner, married to the daughter of a colonel. At the beginning of the war he was mobilized with his National Guard unit as a sergeant. Came the...

6.0

308 votes

6.0

308 votes

The King of Marvin Gardens

1972 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Bob Rafelson

Cast Jack Nicholson · Bruce Dern · Ellen Burstyn · Julia Anne Robinson

Synopsis DJ Radio monologist David Staebler (Jack Nicholson) is called to Atlantic City by his brother Jason (Bruce Dern), who wants him to come in on an island real estate deal. David is drawn into the world of his brother, who...

5.8

162 votes

5.8

162 votes

Detroit 9000

1973 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Marks

Cast Hari Rhodes · Alex Rocco · Vonetta McGee · Ella Edwards

Synopsis Cops go after jewel thieves.

5.7

40 votes

5.7

40 votes

The Sins of Rachel Cade

1961 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Angie Dickinson · Peter Finch · Roger Moore · Errol John

Synopsis While the Nazis regime subjugates European Nations, in Belgian Congo the doctor Rachel Cade tries to cure those troubled people. The colonel Derode falls in love with her but a young American injured pilot upsets his plans.

5.7

102 votes

5.7

102 votes

The Gift of Love

1958 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Lauren Bacall · Robert Stack · Evelyn Rudie · Lorne Greene

Synopsis Physicist Bill Beck meets and marries doctor's receptionist Julie. Five happy years later, she develops a heart condition. Afraid of leaving Bill alone by her premature demise, Julie adopts a sirupy, fantasizing orphan, Hitty. It's an uphill battle forging a...

5.6

90 votes

5.6

90 votes

Bronco Billy

1980 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Sondra Locke · Geoffrey Lewis · Scatman Crothers

Synopsis Clint Eastwood stars as a wannabe cowboy who runs a Wild West show in modern times. He may be lacking in skill and authenticity but he more than makes up for it with his infectious enthusiasm. But when runaway heiress...

5.6

3K votes

5.6

3K votes

The Cheap Detective

1978 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Robert Moore

Cast Peter Falk · Ann-Margret · Eileen Brennan · Sid Caesar

Synopsis Lou Peckinpaugh, the Cheap detective has entered a world that is half Casablanca and half Maltese Falcon. A parody of Bogart's films in which Lou goes through a series of scenes from the two movies trying to keep ahead of...

5.5

169 votes

5.5

169 votes

Friday Foster

1975 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Marks

Cast Pam Grier · Yaphet Kotto · Godfrey Cambridge · Thalmus Rasulala

Synopsis Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a...

5.3

53 votes

5.3

53 votes

The Fortune

1975 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Warren Beatty · Jack Nicholson · Stockard Channing · Florence Stanley

Synopsis The early 1900's with its Mann-Act (disallowing women to be transported across State lines for immoral reasons) brings a married man to devise a scheme for taking his upper-class girlfriend away with him... he simply has her marry his unmarried...

5.2

268 votes

5.2

268 votes