Cleavon Little
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as Bart Blazing Saddles 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.
Filmography
Blazing Saddles
as Bart
Vanishing Point
as Super Soul
Once Bitten
as Sebastian
Fletch Lives
as Calculus Entropy
Cotton Comes to Harlem
as Lo Boy
Greased Lightning
as Peewee
Scavenger Hunt
as Jackson
High Risk
as Rockney
The Salamander
as Major Carl Malinowski, USMC
Double Exposure
as Police Chief
Toy Soldiers
as Buck
Surf 2
as Daddy O
FM
as Prince
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
as Hawthorne Dooley
Separate But Equal
as Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
as Self (archive footage)
Perfect Harmony
as Pastor Clarence Johnson
In the Nick of Time
as Freddy
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
as Rabbit Thompson