Cleavon Little

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA, 1939-06-01

Died: 1992-10-22

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	What's So Bad About Feeling Good?	Phil	67
2	1970	Cotton Comes to Harlem	Lo Boy	63
3	1971	Vanishing Point	Super Soul	72
4	1971	The Homecoming: A Christmas Story	Hawthorne Dooley	72
5	1973	Money to Burn	Calvin Baker	57
6	1974	Blazing Saddles	Bart	72
7	1974	The Day the Earth Moved	Harley Copeland	63
8	1977	Greased Lightning	Peewee	63
9	1977	Once Upon a Brothers Grimm	Wolf	0
10	1978	FM	Prince	68
11	1979	Scavenger Hunt	Jackson	56
12	1980	The Sky Is Gray	Monsieur Bayonne	0
13	1981	The Salamander	Major Carl Malinowski, USMC	57
14	1981	High Risk	Rockney	59
15	1981	Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige	Rabbit Thompson	60
16	1982	A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion	Rolla	60
17	1982	Double Exposure	Police Chief	43
18	1982	Jimmy the Kid	Herb	42
19	1984	E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind	Edmundo	10
20	1984	Surf II: The End of the Trilogy	Daddy O	51
21	1984	Toy Soldiers	Buck	42
22	1985	Once Bitten	Sebastian	58
23	1985	The Gig	Marshall WIlson	65
24	1987	ALF’s Special Christmas	George Foley	80
25	1989	Fletch Lives	Calculus Entropy	60
26	1990	Goin' to Chicago		0
27	1990	Murder by Numbers	David Selby	10
28	1991	Perfect Harmony	Pastor Clarence Johnson	62
29	1991	Separate But Equal	Robert L. 'Bob' Carter	65
30	1991	In the Nick of Time	Freddy	48
31	2001	Back in the Saddle	Self (archive footage)	60
32	2013	Mel Brooks: Make a Noise	Self (archive footage)	82
33	2014	Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West	Self (archive footage)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee / Performer	46
2	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	74
3	1966	Felony Squad		70
4	1968	The Mod Squad		65
5	1971	All in the Family	Coke	78
6	1972	The Rookies		69
7	1972	Temperatures Rising	Jerry Noland	50
8	1972	The Waltons		71
9	1973	Police Story		71
10	1974	The Rockford Files	Billy Merrihew	75
11	1976	The Tony Randall Show		60
12	1977	The Love Boat	Andrew Hopkins	63
13	1981	Simon & Simon		67
14	1985	227		68
15	1985	MacGyver	Frank Colton	77
16	1986	ALF	George Foley	77
17	1988	Tanner '88	Rev. Billy Crier	67
18	1988	Lincoln	Frederick Douglass	72
19	1988	Dear John	Tony Larkin	58
20	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Pack Brightman	80
21	1990	Bagdad Cafe	Sal	50
22	1990	True Colors	Ron Freeman	85
23	1991	Separate but Equal	Robert L. 'Bob' Carter	60