Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 01, 1939
Died
Oct 22, 1992
Place of Birth
Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA
Credits
59 titles
Cleavon Little
Biography
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
Filmography
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
Self (archive footage)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Self (archive footage)
Back in the Saddle
Self (archive footage)
In the Nick of Time
Freddy
Separate but Equal
Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
Separate but Equal
Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
Perfect Harmony
Pastor Clarence Johnson
Murder by Numbers
David Selby
True Colors
Ron Freeman
Bagdad Cafe
Sal
Goin' to Chicago
Tales from the Crypt
Pack Brightman (segment "This'll Kill Ya")
Fletch Lives
Calculus Entropy
Dear John
Tony Larkin
Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
Tanner '88
Rev. Billy Crier
ALF
George Foley
The Gig
Marshall WIlson
Once Bitten
Sebastian
MacGyver
Frank Colton
227
Toy Soldiers
Buck
Surf 2
Daddy O
E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind
Edmundo
Jimmy the Kid
Herb
Double Exposure
Police Chief
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
Rolla
American Playhouse
Ned Shaw
Simon & Simon
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Rabbit Thompson
High Risk
Rockney
The Salamander
Major Carl Malinowski, USMC
The Sky Is Gray
Monsieur Bayonne
Scavenger Hunt
Jackson
Supertrain
Preacher Ross
FM
Prince
Once Upon a Brothers Grimm
Wolf
The Love Boat
Andrew Hopkins
Greased Lightning
Peewee
The Tony Randall Show
The Day the Earth Moved
Harley Copeland
The Rockford Files
Billy Merrihew
Blazing Saddles
Bart
Money to Burn
Calvin Baker
Police Story
The Waltons
Temperatures Rising
Jerry Noland
The Rookies
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Hawthorne Dooley
Vanishing Point
Super Soul