Cleavon Little

Born: 1939-06-01

​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.


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as Bart
Released: 1974-02-07

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to...

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Vanishing Point

as Super Soul
Released: 1971-01-15

Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to...

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Once Bitten

as Sebastian
Released: 1985-11-15

Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both of...

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Cotton Comes to Harlem

as Lo Boy
Released: 1970-05-27

Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who...

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The Salamander

as Major Carl Malinowski, USMC
Released: 1981-04-25

An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions....

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Fletch Lives

as Calculus Entropy
Released: 1989-03-17

Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown...

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Once Upon a Brothers Grimm

as Wolf
Released: 1977-11-23

While traveling to meet with the Hessian King, the famed Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm,...

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Surf II: The End of the Trilogy

as Daddy O
Released: 1984-01-13

Evil Nerd Menlo wants to get revenge on some surfers by selling a bad batch of soda called Buzz...

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FM

as Prince
Released: 1978-04-20

When a liberal music station's owners decide to introduce army recruitment ads, despite the...

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Double Exposure

as Police Chief
Released: 1982-09-03

A photographer for a men's magazine is haunted by disturbing dreams, in which he slaughters his...

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Scavenger Hunt

as Jackson
Released: 1979-12-21

An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of...

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What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

as Phil
Released: 1968-05-24

A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities...

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Greased Lightning

as Peewee
Released: 1977-07-01

The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an...

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High Risk

as Rockney
Released: 1981-05-01

Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South...

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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

as Hawthorne Dooley
Released: 1971-12-19

It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday,...

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Separate But Equal

as Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
Released: 1991-04-07

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that...

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Toy Soldiers

as Buck
Released: 1984-11-01

While on a vacation in Central America, some American teenagers are kidnapped by terrorists. A...

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Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2013-05-20

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live...

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The Gig

as Marshall WIlson
Released: 1985-11-25

Six amateur musicians accept an offer to play a 2-week gig in the Catskills. When the bass...

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ALF’s Special Christmas

as George Foley
Released: 1987-12-14

The Tanners decide to spend Christmas in a cabin in the woods but ALF soon gets trapped in a box...

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Money to Burn

as Calvin Baker
Released: 1973-10-27

A convict who managed to print $1 million in counterfeit bills in the prison print shop hatches...

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In the Nick of Time

as Freddy
Released: 1991-12-16

Santa Claus is up for retirement after his 300 years, and he searches New York City for a...

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Murder by Numbers

as David Selby
Released: 1990-09-30

Hired by the deceased's ex-wife, a private eye checks out the death of a gay man who had AIDS.

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The Day the Earth Moved

as Harley Copeland
Released: 1974-09-18

An aerial photography team tries to alert a small town about an impending earthquake, but no one...

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Jimmy the Kid

as Herb
Released: 1982-11-12

Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for.

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Perfect Harmony

as Pastor Clarence Johnson
Released: 1991-03-31

During the 1950s, a private school in the south undergoes racial tension as it experiences...

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The Sky Is Gray

as Monsieur Bayonne
Released: 1980-01-01

From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively...

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Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

as Rabbit Thompson
Released: 1981-05-31

The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the...

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A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion

as Rolla
Released: 1982-02-17

Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to...

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Back in the Saddle

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2001-06-19

The cast of "Blazing Saddles" discusses salient points of the movie and its place in modern culture.

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Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West

as uncredited
Released: 2014-05-06

A documentary about Mel Brooks' legendary 1974 comedy «Blazing Saddles».

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight...

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MacGyver

as Frank Colton
First aired: 1985-09-29

He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a...

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The Love Boat

as Andrew Hopkins
First aired: 1977-09-24

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...

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The Waltons

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-14

The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World...

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ALF

as George Foley
First aired: 1986-09-22

A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.

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Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee / Performer
First aired: 1956-04-01

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...

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The Rockford Files

as Billy Merrihew
First aired: 1974-09-13

Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con...

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Tales from the Crypt

as Pack Brightman
First aired: 1989-06-10

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and...

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Simon & Simon

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-11-24

Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24,...

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The Rookies

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-11

The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows...

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All in the Family

as Coke
First aired: 1971-01-12

Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important...

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Dear John

as Tony Larkin
First aired: 1988-10-06

Dear John starred Judd Hirsch as easygoing Drake Prep high school teacher John Lacey who is...

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Felony Squad

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-09-12

Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western...

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Police Story

as uncredited
First aired: 1973-03-20

Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and...

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227

as uncredited
First aired: 1985-09-14

A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington,...

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The Mod Squad

as uncredited
First aired: 1968-09-24

The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran...

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True Colors

as Ron Freeman
First aired: 1990-09-02

True Colors is an American sitcom that aired on Fox from September 2, 1990 to April 12, 1992 for...

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The Tony Randall Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-09-23

Walter Franklin is a somewhat less-than-magisterial Philadelphia judge put upon by an assortment...

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Tanner '88

as Rev. Billy Crier
First aired: 1988-02-15

In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry...

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Lincoln

as Frederick Douglass
First aired: 1988-03-27

"Lincoln" was a 1988 American television mini-series starring Sam Waterston as Abraham Lincoln,...

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Separate but Equal

as Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
First aired: 1991-04-07

A two-part miniseries. Dramatizes the events leading up to the 1954 Supreme Court decision on...

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Bagdad Cafe

as uncredited
First aired: 1990-03-30

Bagdad Cafe is an American television sitcom starring Whoopi Goldberg and Jean Stapleton. The...

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