Cleavon Little

Cleavon Little

  • Birthday: 1939-06-01
  • Deathday: 1992-10-22
  • Place of birth: Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Cleavon Jake Little 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.

Filmography

Blazing Saddles

1974

As Bart

Vanishing Point

1971

As Super Soul

The Gig

1985

As Marshall WIlson

Toy Soldiers

1984

As Buck

The Day the Earth Moved

1974

As Harley Copeland

In the Nick of Time

1991

As Freddy

Greased Lightning

1977

As Peewee

Once Bitten

1985

As Sebastian

Separate But Equal

1991

As Robert L. 'Bob' Carter

Money to Burn

1973

As Calvin Baker

FM

1978

As Prince of Darkness

The Sky Is Gray

1980

As Monsieur Bayonne

Jimmy the Kid

1982

As Herb

Double Exposure

1982

As Police Chief

ALF’s Special Christmas

1987

As George Foley

Scavenger Hunt

1979

As Jackson

High Risk

1981

As Rockney

Fletch Lives

1989

As Calculus Entropy

The Salamander

1981

As Major Carl Malinowski, USMC

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

1971

As Hawthorne Dooley

Murder by Numbers

1990

As David Selby

Perfect Harmony

1991

As Pastor Clarence Johnson

Back in the Saddle

2001

As Self (archive footage)

Cotton Comes to Harlem

1970

As Lo Boy

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

2013

As Self (archive footage)

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