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22. Okt. 1992 · Cleavon Little. 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). In 1970 Little won the Tony Award® for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in ...
Born in Oklahoma, African American actor Cleavon Little was raised in California where he attended San Diego College. Trained for a performing career at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, Little made his off-Broadway debut in the 1968 political satire MacBird In 1970, he won a Tony award for his work in the Broadway musical Purlie, and within a year was hired as an ensemble player (along ...
Blazing Saddles. A Black railroad laborer (Cleavon Little) becomes the sheriff of a Western town in the first of Mel Brooks’s parody films—still one of the best of the genre. Brooks satirizes racism in what is arguably his most taboo-breaking film, full of dialogue both unprintable and endlessly quotable.
6. Feb. 2024 · Gene Wilder and Cleavon Little appear in a scene from 1974's "Blazing Saddles." (Courtesy Fathom) Advertisement — The phrase “that movie could never be made today” has probably been said ...
Cleavon Jake Little 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 Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award. His first leading television role was that of the irreverent Dr. Jerry Noland on the ABC sitcom Temperatures Rising.
22. Okt. 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 ...
8. Feb. 2024 · The real reason you can’t make Blazing Saddles today is that, sad to say, Gene Wilder and Cleavon Little are no longer with us, and neither is the Hollywood that Blazing Saddles so ably sent up ...
