Scatman Crothers

Born: 1910-05-22

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. He was also a prolific voiceover artist, and provided the voices of Meadowlark Lemon in the animated TV version of The Harlem Globetrotters, Jazz the Autobot in The Transformers, the title character in Hong Kong Phooey, and Scat Cat in the 1970 film The Aristocats. Description above from the Wikipedia article Scatman Crothers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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as Hallorann
Released: 1980-05-23

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy...

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

as Orderly Turkle
Released: 1975-11-19

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He...

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as Jazz (voice)
Released: 1986-08-08

The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of...

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The Aristocats

as Scat Cat (voice)
Released: 1970-11-13

When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s...

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Silver Streak

as Ralston
Released: 1976-12-03

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a...

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Twilight Zone: The Movie

as Mr. Bloom
Released: 1983-06-24

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick...

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The Lorax

as Singer
Released: 1972-02-14

The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall,...

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The Shootist

as Moses
Released: 1976-07-21

Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters,...

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Two of a Kind

as Earl
Released: 1983-12-13

God has had just about enough of the human's attitude so he will destroy the planet very soon....

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Stay Hungry

as William
Released: 1976-04-23

A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be...

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The King of Marvin Gardens

as Lewis
Released: 1972-10-12

Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a...

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Coonskin

as Pappy / Old Man Bone (voice)
Released: 1975-08-20

Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by...

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Transformers: 40th Anniversary Event

as Jazz (voice) (archive footage)
Released: 2024-04-10

This special cinema experience takes audiences back to the very beginning as the original voice...

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Black Belt Jones

as Pop Byrd
Released: 1974-01-28

Jones is a secret agent who has gone into semi-retirement, concentrating instead on teaching the...

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The Journey of Natty Gann

as Sherman
Released: 1985-09-27

America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon....

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Hello, Dolly!

as Mr. Jones (Porter) (uncredited)
Released: 1969-12-12

Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the...

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Making 'The Shining'

as Self
Released: 1980-10-04

Directed and edited by Stanley Kubrick's daughter Vivian Kubrick, this film offers a look behind...

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Zapped!

as Dexter Jones
Released: 1982-07-23

Peyton and Barney are fun loving high school students working on a science project with white...

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Scooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters

as (voices)
Released: 1973-09-08

In yet another hilarious caper, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and, of course, Scooby-Doo team up...

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Between Heaven and Hell

as George (uncredited)
Released: 1956-10-11

Sam Gifford remembers : In prewar years he was an arrogant southern cotton plantation owner,...

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The Patsy

as Shoeshine Boy
Released: 1964-06-24

When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big...

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Bronco Billy

as Doc Lynch
Released: 1980-06-11

An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard...

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Bloody Mama

as Moses
Released: 1970-03-24

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the...

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Lady in a Cage

as Mr. Paul's Assistant (uncredited)
Released: 1964-06-10

A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.

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Scooby-Doo! and the Pirates

as (voice) (archive footage)
Released: 2011-08-30

Splash into action with seafaring sleuths Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang as they collide...

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The Cheap Detective

as Tinker
Released: 1978-06-23

A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is...

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Porgy and Bess

as Crabman
Released: 1959-06-24

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as...

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The Fortune

as Fisherman
Released: 1975-05-20

Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop...

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Detroit 9000

as Reverend Markham
Released: 1973-08-01

After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one...

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Scavenger Hunt

as Sam
Released: 1979-12-21

An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of...

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Lady Sings the Blues

as Big Ben
Released: 1972-10-12

Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint...

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Hook, Line and Sinker

as The Corpse (uncredited)
Released: 1969-06-06

Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then...

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Deadly Eyes

as George Faskins
Released: 1982-10-23

Corn grain contaminated with steroids produces large rats the size of small dogs who begin...

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Rock Odyssey

as Jukebox (voice)
Released: 1987-07-13

The story of a mysterious woman named Laura, who embarks on a journey to find her true love. The...

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The Great White Hope

as Carnival Barker (uncredited)
Released: 1970-10-11

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing...

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Friday Foster

as Reverend Noble Franklin
Released: 1975-12-25

Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph...

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Tarzan and the Trappers

as Tyana
Released: 1958-01-01

Tarzan goes up against a baddie by the name of Schroeder, who is trapping animals and selling...

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Tarzan and the Trappers

as Tyana (as Sherman Crothers)
Released: 1958-01-01

Tarzan goes up against a baddie by the name of Schroeder, who is trapping animals and selling...

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Truck Turner

as Duke
Released: 1974-06-26

Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are...

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Linda Lovelace for President

as Super Black
Released: 1975-03-01

An intentionally campy film designed to capitalize on Linda Lovelace's sudden fame following...

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Banjo the Woodpile Cat

as Crazy Legs (voice)
Released: 1979-11-16

Banjo is a curious and rebellious kitten who is always getting into trouble. When he decides to...

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Alias Jesse James

as Railroad Porter (uncredited)
Released: 1959-03-20

Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in...

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Yes Sir, Mr. Bones

as Scatman
Released: 1951-07-13

A young boy finds himself in a home for retired minstrel acts. He's anxious to find out as much...

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The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye

as Jazz
Released: 1986-01-01

The Autobots are running low on Energon, they leave their home planet of Cybertron to search for...

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Mean Dog Blues

as Mudcat
Released: 1978-03-03

A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern...

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Slaughter's Big Rip Off

as Cleveland
Released: 1973-08-31

Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps...

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The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

as Dewey Stevens
Released: 1981-05-15

The Harlem Globetrotters' chartered plane crash lands on the atoll inhabited by the happily...

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Walking My Baby Back Home

as Smiley Gordon
Released: 1953-12-06

A young man from a wealthy New York family pursues a career as the leader of a dance band.

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East of Sumatra

as Baltimore (as Scat Man Crothers)
Released: 1953-09-23

Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in...

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Johnny Dark

as Himself
Released: 1954-06-25

A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director...

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Missing Children: A Mother's Story

as Mose Wheeler
Released: 1982-12-01

A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a...

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Chandler

as Smoke
Released: 1971-12-01

A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.

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NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney

as Self
Released: 1978-09-13

Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, Disney’s Wonderful World, Walt...

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Meet Me at the Fair

as Enoch Jones
Released: 1953-01-01

In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a...

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Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy

as Ben Benson
Released: 1976-11-01

When one of her friends goes missing, Chesty and several fellow WAVEs go looking for her and end...

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The Sins of Rachel Cade

as Musinga
Released: 1961-04-02

A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.

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Win, Place or Steal

as Attendant
Released: 1975-02-01

Three friends have two things in common: (1) they like to bet on the horses at the track, and...

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Joys

as Self
Released: 1976-03-05

Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where...

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Man on the Outside

as Ruben Hammer
Released: 1975-06-29

A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his...

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Working

as Parking Attendant
Released: 1982-04-13

This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's...

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Sty of the Blind Pig

as Doc
Released: 1974-05-29

After moving to Chicago from the South just as the civil rights movement takes hold, the members...

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight...

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Bewitched

as uncredited
First aired: 1964-09-17

Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine...

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Magnum, P.I.

as uncredited
First aired: 1980-12-11

A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a...

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The Love Boat

as Virgil Gibson
First aired: 1977-09-24

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...

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Ironside

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-03-28

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of...

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The Mike Douglas Show

as Self
First aired: 1961-12-11

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...

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Adam-12

as George Strothers
First aired: 1968-09-21

Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police...

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The Transformers

as Jazz (voice)
First aired: 1984-10-06

The Transformers is the first animated television series in the Transformers franchise. The...

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Mannix

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-16

Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS....

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Starsky & Hutch

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-09-10

Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch'...

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Taxi

as Walt
First aired: 1978-09-12

Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain...

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The Incredible Hulk

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-11-04

During an experiment gone bad, radiation turns a scientist into a raging green behemoth whenever...

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Hotel

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-08-21

Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May...

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Hill Street Blues

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-01-15

A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

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Love, American Style

as One-Man Band
First aired: 1969-09-29

An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in...

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Sanford and Son

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-01-14

The misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.

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Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo

as (voice)
First aired: 1979-09-22

The original thirty-minute version of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo constitutes the fourth...

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Kojak

as Gaylord Fuller
First aired: 1973-10-24

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New...

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Vega$

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-09-20

Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981....

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The Odd Couple

as Blind Man
First aired: 1970-09-24

Felix and Oscar are two divorced men. Felix is neat and tidy while Oscar is sloppy and casual....

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Matt Houston

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-09-26

Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by...

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Laverne & Shirley

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-01-27

Laverne & Shirley is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May...

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McMillan and Wife

as Floyd
First aired: 1971-09-29

McMillan & Wife is a lighthearted American police procedural that aired on NBC from September...

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The New Scooby-Doo Movies

as Meadowlark Lemon (voice)
First aired: 1972-09-09

Aside from doubling the length of each episode, The New Scooby-Doo Movies differed from its...

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Roots

as Mingo
First aired: 1977-01-23

The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in...

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Kolchak: The Night Stalker

as Uncle Filemon
First aired: 1974-09-13

Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the...

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Bourbon Street Beat

as Joe
First aired: 1959-10-05

"Bourbon Street Beat" is a private detective series produced by Warner Brothers Television which...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Timothy
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Scooby's All-Stars

as Hong Kong Phooey (voice)
First aired: 1977-09-10

Each episode of this series include multiple segments: The first and last were "Laff-A-Lympics"...

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The Colgate Comedy Hour

as Self
First aired: 1950-09-10

The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC...

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The Adventures of Jim Bowie

as uncredited
First aired: 1956-09-07

The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956...

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Chico and the Man

as Louie
First aired: 1974-09-13

Chico and the Man is an American sitcom which ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13,...

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Madame's Place

as Self
First aired: 1982-09-20

Madame's Place is an American sitcom that featured the misadventures of Madame, a puppet in the...

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Hong Kong Phooey

as Hong Kong Phooey (voice)
First aired: 1974-09-07

Penrod Pooch leaps into action as Hong Kong Phooey to fight villains.

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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

as Self
First aired: 1973-09-14

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts is a NBC television special show hosted by entertainer Dean...

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Flying High

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-09-29

Flying High is an American comedy-drama series that aired on CBS from August 28, 1978 until...

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Nichols

as Jack
First aired: 1971-09-16

Nichols is an American Western television series starring James Garner broadcast in the United...

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It Takes Two

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-10-14

It Takes Two is an American sitcom, created by Susan Harris, that aired on ABC from October 14,...

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Johnny Midnight

as Train Attendant (uncredited)
First aired: 1960-01-03

Johnny Midnight is an American crime drama that aired for one season in syndicated from January...

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Paw Paws

as uncredited
First aired: 1985-09-15

Paw Paws, sometimes known as Paw Paw Bears, debuted as part of the weekday/weekend morning...

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The Super Globetrotters

as Nate Branch / Liquid Man (voice)
First aired: 1979-09-22

It’s true—to the public at large they are the clown princes of the parquet, the internationally...

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Harlem Globetrotters

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-09-12

Harlem Globetrotters is a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera and CBS...

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Casablanca

as Sam
First aired: 1983-04-10

In this prequel to the movie, set from June 1940 to November 1941, American Rick Blaine runs the...

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