Cleavon Little
Actor
Biography
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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
Vanishing Point
as Super Soul 1971
Once Bitten
as Sebastian 1985
Fletch Lives
as Calculus Entropy 1989
Cotton Comes to Harlem
as Lo Boy 1970
Greased Lightning
as Peewee 1977
Scavenger Hunt
as Jackson 1979
High Risk
as Rockney 1981
The Salamander
as Major Carl Malinowski, USMC 1981
Surf II: The End of the Trilogy
as Daddy O 1984
Double Exposure
as Police Chief 1982
Toy Soldiers
as Buck 1984
FM
as Prince 1978
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
as Hawthorne Dooley 1971
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
as Self (archive footage) 2013
Separate But Equal
as Robert L. 'Bob' Carter 1991
Perfect Harmony
as Pastor Clarence Johnson 1991