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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.
The roles that explain the career.
25 credits across 1 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Mel Brooks: Make a Noise | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 1991 | Perfect Harmony | Pastor Clarence Johnson | Film |
| 1991 | Separate but Equal | Robert L. 'Bob' Carter | Film |
| 1990 | True Colors | Ron Freeman | TV |
| 1989 | Fletch Lives | Calculus Entropy | Film |
| 1988 | Lincoln | Frederick Douglass | TV |
| 1985 | Once Bitten | Sebastian | Film |
| 1985 | The Gig | Marshall WIlson | Film |
| 1984 | Toy Soldiers | Buck | Film |
| 1984 | Surf 2 | Daddy O | Film |
| 1982 | Jimmy the Kid | Herb | Film |
| 1982 | Double Exposure | Police Chief | Film |
| 1982 | A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion | Rolla | Film |
| 1981 | The Salamander | Major Carl Malinowski, USMC | Film |
| 1981 | High Risk | Rockney | Film |
| 1979 | Scavenger Hunt | Jackson | Film |
| 1978 | FM | Prince | Film |
| 1977 | Greased Lightning | Peewee | Film |
| 1977 | Once Upon a Brothers Grimm | Wolf | Film |
| 1974 | The Day the Earth Moved | Harley Copeland | Film |
| 1974 | Blazing Saddles | Bart | Film |
| 1972 | Temperatures Rising | Jerry Noland | TV |
| 1971 | Vanishing Point | Super Soul | Film |
| 1971 | The Homecoming: A Christmas Story | Hawthorne Dooley | Film |
| 1970 | Cotton Comes to Harlem | Lo Boy | Film |
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