Cast: Scatman Crothers
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Scatman Crothers. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 40
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
Lady in a Cage
1964 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Walter Grauman
Cast Olivia de Havilland · James Caan · Jennifer Billingsley · Jeff Corey
6.7
410 votes
6.7
410 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