Cleavon Little
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Cleavon Jake Little (June 1, 1939 – October 22, 1992) was an American film and theatre actor, known for his lead role as Bart in the Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles (1974) and as the irreverent Dr. Jerry Noland in the early-1970s sitcom Temperatures Rising. He also starred in the comedy films FM (1978) and Once Bitten (1985) and the action films Vanishing Point (1971) and the Toy Soldiers (1984).
Known for
Credits
Blazing Saddles (1974)
as Bart
Fletch Lives (1989)
as Calculus Entropy
Once Bitten (1985)
as Sebastian
Vanishing Point (1971)
as Super Soul
Scavenger Hunt (1979)
as Jackson
Greased Lightning (1977)
as Peewee
The Salamander (1981)
as Major Carl Malinowski, USMC
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
as Lo Boy
Surf 2 (1984)
as Daddy O
Toy Soldiers (1984)
as Buck
High Risk (1981)
as Rockney
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise (2013)
as Self (archive footage)
Double Exposure (1982)
as Police Chief
Separate but Equal (1991)
as Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
FM (1978)
as Prince
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1981)
as Rabbit Thompson
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)
as Hawthorne Dooley
What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)
as Phil
E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind (1984)
as Edmundo
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion (1982)
as Rolla
In the Nick of Time (1991)
as Freddy
Jimmy the Kid (1982)
as Herb
The Day the Earth Moved (1974)
as Harley Copeland
Back in the Saddle (2001)
as Self (archive footage)
Murder by Numbers (1990)
as David Selby
Once Upon a Brothers Grimm (1977)
as Wolf
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Perfect Harmony (1991)
as Pastor Clarence Johnson
Money to Burn (1973)
as Calvin Baker
The Gig (1985)
as Marshall WIlson
The Sky Is Gray (1980)
as Monsieur Bayonne
Goin' to Chicago (1990)
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