Cleavon Little

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-06-01 (53 years old)

Deathday

1992-10-22

Place of Birth

Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA

Cleavon Little

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.

Acting

1974

1979

Scavenger Hunt

as Jackson

1971

Vanishing Point

as Super Soul

2013

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

as Self (archive footage)

1977

1989

Fletch Lives

as Calculus Entropy

1982

1981

High Risk

as Rockney

2001

Back in the Saddle

as Self (archive footage)

1985

Once Bitten

as Sebastian

1982

Double Exposure

as Police Chief

1991

Perfect Harmony

as Pastor Clarence Johnson

1991

Separate But Equal

as Robert L. 'Bob' Carter

1985

The Gig

as Marshall WIlson

1973

Money to Burn

as Calvin Baker

1974

The Day the Earth Moved

as Harley Copeland

1978

FM

as Prince

1981

The Salamander

as Major Carl Malinowski, USMC

1987

1971

1991

1990

Murder by Numbers

as David Selby

1984

1980

The Sky Is Gray

as Monsieur Bayonne

2014

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