Cleavon Little
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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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 19.438 |
Birthday | 1939-06-01 |
Place of Birth | Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA |
Also Known As | Cleavon Jake Little, |
1974
Blazing Saddles
7.256/1791
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...
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Blazing Saddles
1984
Surf II: The End of the Trilogy
5.2/18
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...
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Surf II: The End of the Trilogy
1979
Scavenger Hunt
5.7/32
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...
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Scavenger Hunt
1971
Vanishing Point
7.182/429
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...
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Vanishing Point
1977
Greased Lightning
6.4/35
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.
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Greased Lightning
1989
Fletch Lives
6/280
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...
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Fletch Lives
1982
Jimmy the Kid
4.2/1
Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for.
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Jimmy the Kid
1981
High Risk
5.8/21
Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South American drug lord's compound.
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High Risk
1985
Once Bitten
5.787/294
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...
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Once Bitten
1982
Double Exposure
4.3/16
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...
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Double Exposure
1991
Perfect Harmony
6.2/8
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?
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Perfect Harmony
1991
Separate But Equal
6.4/11
A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
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Separate But Equal
1985
The Gig
6.5/2
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...
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The Gig
1977
Once Upon a Brothers Grimm
0/0
While traveling to meet with the Hessian King, the famed Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, travel through an enchanted forest where they find themsel...
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Once Upon a Brothers Grimm
1973
Money to Burn
5.7/3
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.
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Money to Burn
1978
FM
6.75/16
When a liberal music station's owners decide to introduce army recruitment ads, despite the protests of its manager, the rebellious DJs are determined...
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FM
1974
The Day the Earth Moved
6.3/3
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...
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The Day the Earth Moved
1981
The Salamander
5.6/21
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...
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The Salamander
1971
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
7.567/15
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...
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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
1970
Cotton Comes to Harlem
6.2/47
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...
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Cotton Comes to Harlem
1984
E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind
1/1
A comic spoof of adult magazines and video shows.
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E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind
1991
In the Nick of Time
5.7/3
Santa Claus is up for retirement after his 300 years, and he searches New York City for a replacement.
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In the Nick of Time
1981
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
6/4
The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, t...
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Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
1990
Murder by Numbers
1/1
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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Murder by Numbers
1984
Toy Soldiers
4.1/18
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...
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Toy Soldiers
1980
The Sky Is Gray
0/0
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...
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The Sky Is Gray
1982
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
6/1
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...
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A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
2013
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
8.182/11
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 —...
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Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
1987
ALF’s Special Christmas
7.3/3
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.
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ALF’s Special Christmas
2001
Back in the Saddle
6/2
The cast of "Blazing Saddles" discusses salient points of the movie and its place in modern culture.
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Back in the Saddle
1968
What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
6.7/6
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.
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