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My colleague, Tom Cottle, is the interviewer. Cleavon's first leading television role was that of the irreverent Dr. Jerry Noland on the ABC sitcom Temperatu...
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LITTLE, CLEAVON (1939-1992) Cleavon Jake Little, stage, screen, and television actor, was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, on June 1, 1939. His father was a native Mississippian and his mother was a Texan. Both parents were of African and Native American ancestry. Cleavon attended grade school in Chickasha, but the family moved to the Linda Vista ...
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Other articles where Cleavon Little is discussed: Mel Brooks: Films of the 1970s: 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).
Feb 7, 2014 · Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder in a scene from Blazing Saddles in 1974. Mel Brooks' Western spoof Blazing Saddles turns 40 Friday, and along with its over-the-top jabs at racism and Hollywood, it ...
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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 ...
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 John," died ...
