Cleavon Little
Acting • Born 1939-06-01 – Died 1992-10-22
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.
Filmography
56 credits
Blazing Saddles
Movie • 1974
Bart
Surf II: The End of the Trilogy
Movie • 1984
Daddy O
Scavenger Hunt
Movie • 1979
Jackson
Vanishing Point
Movie • 1971
Super Soul
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
Greased Lightning
Movie • 1977
Peewee
Fletch Lives
Movie • 1989
Calculus Entropy
Jimmy the Kid
Movie • 1982
Herb
High Risk
Movie • 1981
Rockney
Back in the Saddle
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
Once Bitten
Movie • 1985
Sebastian
Double Exposure
Movie • 1982
Police Chief
Perfect Harmony
Movie • 1991
Pastor Clarence Johnson
Separate But Equal
Movie • 1991
Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
The Gig
Movie • 1985
Marshall WIlson
Once Upon a Brothers Grimm
Movie • 1977
Wolf
What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
Movie • 1968
Phil
Money to Burn
Movie • 1973
Calvin Baker
The Day the Earth Moved
Movie • 1974
Harley Copeland
FM
Movie • 1978
Prince
The Salamander
Movie • 1981
Major Carl Malinowski, USMC
ALF’s Special Christmas
Movie • 1987
George Foley
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Movie • 1971
Hawthorne Dooley
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Movie • 1970
Lo Boy
E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind
Movie • 1984
Edmundo
In the Nick of Time
Movie • 1991
Freddy
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Movie • 1981
Rabbit Thompson
Murder by Numbers
Movie • 1990
David Selby
Toy Soldiers
Movie • 1984
Buck
The Sky Is Gray
Movie • 1980
Monsieur Bayonne
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
Movie • 1982
Rolla
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Goin' to Chicago
Movie • 1990
The Rookies
TV • 1972
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Andrew Hopkins
Simon & Simon
TV • 1981
All in the Family
TV • 1971
Coke
227
TV • 1985
MacGyver
TV • 1985
Frank Colton
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
True Colors
TV • 1990
Ron Freeman
Lincoln
TV • 1988
Frederick Douglass
ALF
TV • 1986
George Foley
The Waltons
TV • 1972
Felony Squad
TV • 1966
Temperatures Rising
TV • 1972
Jerry Noland
Police Story
TV • 1973
The Tony Randall Show
TV • 1976
Bagdad Cafe
TV • 1990
Sal
Tanner '88
TV • 1988
Rev. Billy Crier
Separate but Equal
TV • 1991
Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Billy Merrihew
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Pack Brightman (segment "This'll Kill Ya")
Dear John
TV • 1988
Tony Larkin
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self