Born Benjamin Sherman Crothers in Terre Haute, Indiana. Songwriter, actor, composer, singer, comedian and guitarist who, after high school, appeared in nightclubs, hotels, films and on television. He joined ASCAP in 1959, and his popular-song compositions also include "The Gal Looks Good", "Nobody Knows Why", "I Was There", "A Man's Gotta Eat" and "When, Oh When". Scatman Crothers died at age 76 of pneumonia and lung cancer at his home in Van Nuys, California on November 22, 1986.

Credits include: Earthquake, Battlestar Galactica, Autumn Leaves, Battlestar Galactica and Bonanza

Credits include: Irma la Douce, The Front, Murder by Contract, Love with the Proper Stranger and No Deposit, No Return

Credits include: I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Little House on the Prairie and The Errand Boy

Credits include: Ace in the Hole, Inherit the Wind, The Wild One, The Desperate Hours and Decision at Sundown

Credits include: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Same Time, Next Year, Million Dollar Mermaid, My Dear Secretary and Mr. Garrity and the Graves

Credits include: Ride Lonesome, Bonanza, The Sheepman, The Deadly Tower and Desire Under the Elms

Credits include: Without Warning!, Bunny O'Hare, Tammy and the Doctor, Day of the Bad Man and The Hunt

Credits include: A Blueprint for Murder, I've Always Loved You, That's My Man, So Young So Bad and The Outcast

Credits include: Bonanza, Lady in Cement, The Girl in Black Stockings, Come Blow Your Horn and Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

Credits include: Shock Corridor, The Gypsy Moths, Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, How to Frame a Figg and Captain Nice

Credits include: The Smiler