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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
2014
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary about Mel Brooks' legendary 1974 comedy «Blazing Saddles».
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows — ...
Back in the Saddle
2001
as Self (archive footage)
The cast of "Blazing Saddles" discusses salient points of the movie and its place in modern culture.
In the Nick of Time
1991
as Freddy
Santa Claus is up for retirement after his 300 years, and he searches New York City for a replacement.
Separate But Equal
1991
as Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
Perfect Harmony
1991
as Pastor Clarence Johnson
During the 1950s, a private school in the south undergoes racial tension as it experiences desegregation. Can a love of music help ease the pain?
Murder by Numbers
1990
as David Selby
Hired by the deceased's ex-wife, a private eye checks out the death of a gay man who had AIDS.
Goin' to Chicago
1990
About left wing students in 1964.
Fletch Lives
1989
as Calculus Entropy
Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns ...
ALF’s Special Christmas
1987
as George Foley
The Tanners decide to spend Christmas in a cabin in the woods but ALF soon gets trapped in a box of toys going to a children's hospital.
The Gig
1985
as Marshall WIlson
Six amateur musicians accept an offer to play a 2-week gig in the Catskills. When the bass player suddenly falls ill, they recruit a genuine pro to fi...
Once Bitten
1985
as Sebastian
Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both of them, a 400-year-old vampire Countess needs to turn a vi...
Toy Soldiers
1984
as Buck
While on a vacation in Central America, some American teenagers are kidnapped by terrorists. A rescue mission is sent after them, but they manage to e...
Surf II: The End of the Trilogy
1984
as Daddy O
Evil Nerd Menlo wants to get revenge on some surfers by selling a bad batch of soda called Buzz Cola which turns people into mutant zombies. Its up to...
E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind
1984
as Edmundo
A comic spoof of adult magazines and video shows.
Jimmy the Kid
1982
as Herb
Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for.
Double Exposure
1982
as Police Chief
A photographer for a men's magazine is haunted by disturbing dreams, in which he slaughters his models. When he learns that these models are dying in ...
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
1982
as Rolla
Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this fa...
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
1981
as Rabbit Thompson
The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, t...
High Risk
1981
as Rockney
Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South American drug lord's compound.
The Salamander
1981
as Major Carl Malinowski, USMC
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a sala...
The Sky Is Gray
1980
as Monsieur Bayonne
From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's d...
Scavenger Hunt
1979
as Jackson
An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars - which will only be given to the person or te...
FM
1978
as Prince
When a liberal music station's owners decide to introduce army recruitment ads, despite the protests of its manager, the rebellious DJs are determined...
Once Upon a Brothers Grimm
1977
as Wolf
While traveling to meet with the Hessian King, the famed Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, travel through an enchanted forest where they find themsel...
Greased Lightning
1977
as Peewee
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.
The Day the Earth Moved
1974
as Harley Copeland
An aerial photography team tries to alert a small town about an impending earthquake, but no one believes the duo until the tremors start and the wall...
Blazing Saddles
1974
as Bart
A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his h...
Money to Burn
1973
as Calvin Baker
A convict who managed to print $1 million in counterfeit bills in the prison print shop hatches a scheme to swap them for real money.
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
1971
as Hawthorne Dooley
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in th...
Vanishing Point
1971
as Super Soul
Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup...
Cotton Comes to Harlem
1970
as Lo Boy
Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of...
What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
1968
as Phil
A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others.