Cleavon Little
Born: 1939-06-01 in Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA
Died: 1992-10-22
Known For: Acting
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
2014
- Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West as Self (archive footage)
2013
- Mel Brooks: Make a Noise as Self (archive footage)
2001
- Back in the Saddle as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Perfect Harmony as Pastor Clarence Johnson
- In the Nick of Time as Freddy
- Separate But Equal as Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
- Separate but Equal as Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
1990
- Goin' to Chicago
- Murder by Numbers as David Selby
- True Colors as Ron Freeman
- Bagdad Cafe as Sal
1989
- Tales from the Crypt as Pack Brightman (segment "This'll Kill Ya")
- Fletch Lives as Calculus Entropy
1988
- Dear John as Tony Larkin
- Tanner '88 as Rev. Billy Crier
- Lincoln as Frederick Douglass
1987
- ALF’s Special Christmas as George Foley
1986
- ALF as George Foley
1985
- MacGyver as Frank Colton
- Once Bitten as Sebastian
- 227
- The Gig as Marshall WIlson
1984
- Toy Soldiers as Buck
- Surf II: The End of the Trilogy as Daddy O
- E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind as Edmundo
1982
- Jimmy the Kid as Herb
- A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion as Rolla
- Double Exposure as Police Chief
1981
- Simon & Simon
- The Salamander as Major Carl Malinowski, USMC
- High Risk as Rockney
- Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige as Rabbit Thompson
1980
- The Sky Is Gray as Monsieur Bayonne
1979
- Scavenger Hunt as Jackson
1978
- FM as Prince
1977
- The Love Boat as Andrew Hopkins
- Greased Lightning as Peewee
- Once Upon a Brothers Grimm as Wolf
1974
- The Rockford Files as Billy Merrihew
- Blazing Saddles as Bart
- The Day the Earth Moved as Harley Copeland
1973
- Police Story
- Money to Burn as Calvin Baker
1972
- The Waltons
- The Rookies
- Temperatures Rising as Jerry Noland
1971
- All in the Family as Coke
- Vanishing Point as Super Soul
- The Homecoming: A Christmas Story as Hawthorne Dooley
1970
- Cotton Comes to Harlem as Lo Boy
1968
1966
1962
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee / Performer