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Cleavon Jake Little (June 1, 1939 – October 22, 1992) was an American stage, film and television actor. He began his career in the late 1960s on the stage. In 1970, he starred in the Broadway production of Purlie, for which he earned both a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award.
Cleavon Little. Actor: Blazing Saddles. Versatile, charismatic actor Cleavon Little was born on June 1, 1939, in Oklahoma but grew up in California and attended San Diego College.
Oct 23, 1992 · Cleavon Little, the actor best remembered for his role as a black sheriff hired to save a redneck town in Mel Brooks's 1974 comedy "Blazing Saddles," died...
Oct 23, 1992 · Cleavon Little, who portrayed a submissive octogenarian in “I’m Not Rappaport,” won a Tony award for the title role in “Purlie,” but to millions will always be Bart, the puckish black sheriff who...
Cleavon Little. Actor: Blazing Saddles. Versatile, charismatic actor Cleavon Little was born on June 1, 1939, in Oklahoma but grew up in California and attended San Diego College.
Shortly before the program's conclusion, Little gave what has become his signature performance, portraying Sheriff Bart in the Mel Brooks comedy film Blazing Saddles (1974).In 1989, he won a ...
Oct 23, 1992 · Actor Cleavon Little, best known for his role as the black sheriff in the Western comedy ``Blazing Saddles,'' died of colon cancer Thursday at his home. He was 52.
Oct 23, 1992 · LOS ANGELES (Reuter) - Cleavon Little, the actor best known for his role as the sheriff in the comedy film "Blazing Saddles," died Thursday of colon cancer at the age of 54, his agent said.
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.
Oct 23, 1992 · Cleavon Little, 53, who played the sheriff in Mel Brooks’ western spoof “Blazing Saddles,” won a Tony for “Purlie” and captured an Emmy for his guest role opposite Judd Hirsch in “ Dear...
Oct 22, 1992 · Find the location of Cleavon Little's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, read a biography, see related stars and browse a map of important places in their career.
Cleavon Jake Little (June 1, 1939 – October 22, 1992) was an American stage, film and television actor. He began his career in the late 1960s on the stage. In 1970, he starred in the Broadway production of Purlie, for which he earned both a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award.
Oct 12, 2005 · Cleavon Little, who starred as the sheriff who cleans up a town of bumbling rednecks in the movie Blazing Saddles, died Thursday of colon cancer. He was 53....
Oct 23, 1992 · Cleavon Little, actor, born Chickasha Oklahoma 1 June 1939, died Los Angeles 22 October 1992. WHEN Richard Pryor withdrew from the cast of Mel Brooks's riotous western spoof...
Oct 22, 1992 · Cleavon Jake Little 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 197
Cleavon Little performs "Newfangled Preacher Man" from Purlie (1970) at the 1974 Tony Awards.
Oct 23, 1992 · Cleavon Little, 53, an accomplished stage actor best known for his role as a black sheriff who took on a redneck town in the smash movie comedy "Blazing Saddles," died of colon...
Oct 22, 1992 · American television, film, and stage actor Cleavon Little (b. Chickasha, OK, 1 June 1939; d. Sherman Oaks, CA. 22 October 1992) is best and most affectionately remembered as Sheriff Bart in Mel Brooks’s western Blazing Saddles (1974).
Feb 7, 2014 · Hoping to scare off the townsfolk and prepare the way for a land grab, Lamarr sends in the first black sheriff, a former railroad worker named Black Bart, played by Cleavon Little.
Cleavon Little, who played the black sheriff who took on a redneck town in the smash 1974 comedy "Blazing Saddles," died of colon cancer at his home Thursday, his...
Blazing Saddles: Directed by Mel Brooks. With Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman. In order to ruin a western town and steal their land, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
Cleavon Jake Little 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.
Its stellar cast included Wilder, Cleavon Little, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, and Madeline Kahn, who earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress for her parody of Marlene Dietrich’s saloon singer in the classic western Destry Rides Again (1939).
