Scatman Crothers

Crothers died at Van Nuys, California, USA. From Bronco Billy:. He is buried next to his wife Helen (1918-1997) in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, the same cemetery as his Chico co-star, Freddie Prinze. From Sudden Impact:. He died on November 22, 1986. From Dirty Harry:. He tried to work through the illness, but the inoperable tumor spread to his esophagus in 1986. Eastwood has never taken a writing credit on a film.).

In 1985 Crothers developed a malignant tumor behind his left lung. (Remembering, of course, that Eastwood himself did not write any of these lines. Scatman Crothers married Helen Sullivan in 1937 and had one daughter, Donna, in 1949. Some of Eastwood's lines are among the best-known movie quotations of all time. He also performed the voice of Jazz on Transformers (1984-1986). He served a two-year term before declining to run for re-election. He starred in three short-lived 1980s television series: One of the Boys (1982), Casablanca (1983), and Morningstar/Eveningstar (1986). In addition to his career as an actor, Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California on April 8, 1986, receiving 72% of the vote (voter turnout was also doubled over the previous mayoral election).

He appeared as a guest on many of the shows popular in the 1970s, but was most noted for his supporting role on the sitcom Chico and the Man. I realize how unfair a thing it is that men can have children at a much older age than women.". Even though Crothers worked in television since the beginning, he really came into his own in the medium doing the voices of cartoon characters such as Hong Kong Phooey in the 1970s after his talent for voice-over work was noticed in The Aristocats. I am very fortunate. (Not a definitive list). It's a terrific feeling being a dad again at my age. His films include:. "I like to joke that since my children weren't giving me any grandchildren, I had two of my own.

He also made musical shorts. He also has an older son Lesly (born February 13, 1959) to Rosina Mary Glen (born September 1, 1940), who was adopted after six months in a Salvation Army Home for young unmarried mothers. He decided to try acting and made his debut in the movie Meet Me At The Fair (1953) He worked in both the movies and television, often taking bit parts. He has a eleven-year-old daughter Francesca with Frances Fisher, his co-star in Unforgiven, and seven year old Morgan with his new wife Dina Ruiz. They briefly have words, he pushes her down and exits with his new girlfriend before her song. Eastwood, who has been married twice, has four other daughters and two sons by five different women: Kimberly, 40, with actress Roxanne Tunis; and Kyle, 36, and Alison 32, with his ex-wife Maggie Johnson. He encounters his jilted lover, played by the also uncredited 20-year-old Billie Holliday. Eastwood received Kennedy Center Honors in 2000.

He did an uncredited turn as a dancer in the Jealousy segment of the Duke Ellington short, Symphony in Black (1935), dancing with a woman in his apartment before taking her out. With his towering personality in literal and virtual terms, he is probably the only American actor who looks 'lonely in a crowd'. He formed his own band in the 1930s and finally traveled to California with the band in 1948. With a drawl most people call 'Western', he is cool, conceited and distant on screen. He played a variety of instruments including drums and guitar on jazz club band circuits in his early days as an entertainer. Despite the critical acclaim he has received for Oscar-winning epics in the latter part of his career, Eastwood remains the quintessential cowboy with mannerisms to match in all his movies. Scatman Crothers started his musical career as a 15 year old drummer in a speakeasy band in his home town of Terre Haute. In more recent years, Eastwood has also started to write music for some of his films.

Scatman Crothers.. studio, which finances and releases most of his films. He continued to enjoy this talent throughout his career, even teaching scat singing to college students. Similarly, he has a very long term relationship to the Warner Bros. Crothers got the name Scatman when he auditioned for a radio show in 1932 in Dayton, Ohio The director didn't think his given name was catchy enough, so Crothers told the director to call him "Scatman" because of his talent at scat singing. Over the years, he has developed relationships with many other filmmakers, working over and over with the same crew, production designers, cinematographers, editors, and other technical people. Scatman Crothers - original name: Benjamin Crothers - (May 23, 1910 - November 22, 1986) He was an actor, singer, dancer and musician. Crothers was born in Terre Haute, Indiana and was best known for his work as a musician/singer and on the TV show Chico and the Man as Louie the Garbage Man. Eastwood also produces many of his movies, and is well known in the industry for his efficient, low cost approach to making films.

Transformers: The Movie (1986). Over the course of time, Eastwood has become a highly respected American director. Twilight Zone--The Movie (1983). He has chosen a wide variety of films to direct, some clearly commercial, others highly personal. Unlike many actors who also direct, Eastwood frequently directs films he does not appear in. The Shining (1980). Eastwood developed directing as a second career, and has, indeed, generally received greater critical acclaim for his directing than for his acting. Bronco Billy (1980). He expanded his repertoire again with the love story, The Bridges of Madison County (1995), and took on more work as director, much of it well received, including Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) and Mystic River (2003).

The Cheap Detective (1978). The following year, Eastwood gave a fine performance as a guilt-ridden Secret Service agent in the thriller In the Line of Fire. Mean Dog Blues (1978). The film was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Actor for Eastwood, and won four, including Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood. The Shootist (1976). He starred in and directed the gritty, cynical western, Unforgiven in 1992, taking on the role of an aging ex-gunfighter, long past his prime. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). But Eastwood rose surprisingly to stardom yet again in the 1990s.

The Fortune (1975). He then started taking on more personal projects such as directing Bird (1988), a biopic of Charlie 'Bird' Parker, and starring in and directing White Hunter, Black Heart (1990), an uneven, loose biography of John Huston. Truck Turner (1974). After much less successful films like Pink Cadillac (1989), and The Rookie (1990), it was fairly obvious Eastwood's star was declining as it never had before. King of Marvin Gardens (1972). Although it was a success overall, it did not have the box office punch his previous films had achieved. Lady Sings the Blues (1972). He did make his fifth and final Dirty Harry movie, The Dead Pool (1988).

The Aristocats (1970). But the passing of time made it harder for him to be a believable tough guy. The Great White Hope (1970). President Reagan even used his famous "make my day" line in one of his speeches. Hello Dolly (1969). It was the fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact (1983) that made Eastwood a viable star for the eighties. The Patsy (1964). However his career appeared to be on the wane.

Lady in an Cage (1964). As the late seventies approached he found more solid work in comedies like Every Which Way But Loose (1978). The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961). The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) was an important contribution to the western genre. Eastwood continued to take cop, western and thriller roles, including sequels to Dirty Harry: Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983), and The Dead Pool (1988). Many have said that Eastwood's portrayal of the tough, no-nonsense cop touched a nerve with many who were just plain fed up with crime in the streets.

The film has been credited with inventing the 'loose-cannon cop genre' that has been imitated even to this day. But it was his role that year as the hard edged police inspector Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry that gave Eastwood one of his most memorable roles. He starred in the thriller Play Misty for Me (1971), and The Beguiled (1971). 1971 proved to be one of his best years in films.

His talents proved equal to all these tasks. Paint Your Wagon (1969) was still a Western, but a musical. Kelly's Heroes (1970) combined tough guy action with offbeat humor. However he also began to branch out. In Where Eagles Dare (1968) he had second billing to Richard Burton but was paid $800,000 (rather more than a fistful).

Stardom brought more roles, though still in the 'tough guy' mold. All three films were hits, particularly the third, and Eastwood became an instant international star, redefining the traditional image of the American cowboy. In these and his third film with Leone, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo) (1966) he found one of his trademark roles, the mysterious "man with no name". But Eastwood found even bigger and better things with Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari) in 1964, and soon followed it with For a Few Dollars More (Per qualche dollaro in pił) (1965).

As Rowdy Yates, he made the show his own and became a household name around the country. In 1959 he got his first breakthrough with the long-running Television series, Rawhide. He began work as an actor, appearing in such B-films as Tarantula and Francis in the Navy. Before acting, he was a member of the United States Army.

Born in San Francisco, the son of a steel worker, Eastwood started a business related degree at Los Angeles College, but dropped out. These include Dirty Harry and "The Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's "Spaghetti Westerns". Clint Eastwood (born May 31, 1930) is an American movie actor and director, famous for his 'tough guy' roles. "Cowboy in a Three Piece Suit" (single, 1981).

"Kelly's Heroes" (soundtrack). "Paint Your Wagon" (soundtrack). "Rawhide's Clint Eastwood Sings Cowboy Favorites" (LP). "For You, For Me, For Evermore" (single).

"Rowdy" (single). "Unknown Girl" (single, 1961).