Cleavon Little
Birthday
1939/06/01
Day of death
1992/10/22 (53 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA
Also know as
Cleavon Jake Little
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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 1974 Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles and as the irreverent Dr. Jerry Noland in the early 1970s sitcom Temperatures Rising. In 1978 he played "The Prince of Darkness" in the radio station comedy FM. He was also in the 1984 action film Toy Soldiers and acted out the role of Super Soul in the film Vanishing Point in 1971.
Acting
(1974) Blazing Saddles
as Bart
(1984) Surf II: The End of the Trilogy
as Daddy O
(1979) Scavenger Hunt
as Jackson
(1971) Vanishing Point
as Super Soul
(2013) Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
as Self (archive footage)
(1977) Greased Lightning
as Peewee
(1989) Fletch Lives
as Calculus Entropy
(1982) Jimmy the Kid
as Herb
(1981) High Risk
as Rockney
(2001) Back in the Saddle
as Self (archive footage)
(1985) Once Bitten
as Sebastian
(1982) Double Exposure
as Police Chief
(1991) Perfect Harmony
as Pastor Clarence Johnson
(1991) Separate But Equal
as Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
(1985) The Gig
as Marshall WIlson
(1977) Once Upon a Brothers Grimm
as Wolf
(1968) What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
as Phil
(1973) Money to Burn
as Calvin Baker
(1974) The Day the Earth Moved
as Harley Copeland
(1978) FM
as Prince
(1981) The Salamander
as Major Carl Malinowski, USMC
(1987) ALF’s Special Christmas
as George Foley
(1971) The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
as Hawthorne Dooley
(1970) Cotton Comes to Harlem
as Lo Boy
(1984) E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind
as Edmundo
(1991) In the Nick of Time
as Freddy
(1981) Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
as Rabbit Thompson
(1990) Murder by Numbers
as David Selby
(1984) Toy Soldiers
as Buck
(1980) The Sky Is Gray
as Monsieur Bayonne
(1982) A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
as Rolla
(2014) Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
as Self (archive footage)
(1990) Goin' to Chicago
as ---
(1972) The Rookies
as ---
(1977) The Love Boat
as Andrew Hopkins
(1981) Simon & Simon
as ---
(1971) All in the Family
as Coke
(1985) 227
as ---
(1985) MacGyver
as Frank Colton
(1968) The Mod Squad
as ---
(1990) True Colors
as Ron Freeman
(1988) Lincoln
as Frederick Douglass
(1986) ALF
as George Foley
(1972) The Waltons
as ---
(1966) Felony Squad
as ---
(1972) Temperatures Rising
as Jerry Noland
(1973) Police Story
as ---
(1976) The Tony Randall Show
as ---
(1990) Bagdad Cafe
as ---
(1988) Tanner '88
as Rev. Billy Crier
(1991) Separate but Equal
as Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1974) The Rockford Files
as Billy Merrihew
(1989) Tales from the Crypt
as Pack Brightman
(1988) Dear John
as Tony Larkin
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee / Performer