Cleavon Little
ActingFrom 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.
Known For
Filmography — Acting
Blazing Saddles
Bart
Vanishing Point
Super Soul
Once Bitten
Sebastian
Surf 2
Daddy O
Fletch Lives
Calculus Entropy
FM
Prince
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Self (archive footage)
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Lo Boy
Greased Lightning
Peewee
Scavenger Hunt
Jackson
High Risk
Rockney
What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
Phil
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Hawthorne Dooley
Toy Soldiers
Buck
The Salamander
Major Carl Malinowski, USMC
In the Nick of Time
Freddy
Separate But Equal
Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
Double Exposure
Police Chief
The Day the Earth Moved
Harley Copeland
The Sky Is Gray
Monsieur Bayonne
The Gig
Marshall WIlson
Jimmy the Kid
Herb
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
Rolla
Once Upon a Brothers Grimm
Wolf
Money to Burn
Calvin Baker
Back in the Saddle
Self (archive footage)
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Rabbit Thompson
Perfect Harmony
Pastor Clarence Johnson
Goin' to Chicago
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
Self (archive footage)
E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind
Edmundo
Murder by Numbers
David Selby