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