![Purlie [Original Broadway Cast]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 "Purlie [Original Broadway Cast]")
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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 yesterday...
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.
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 Blazing...
Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical postmodernist [4] [5] Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger, based on a story treatment by Bergman. [6] The film stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.
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,...
Jun 1, 2017 · Cleavon Little Interview: Sheriff Bart in "Blazing Saddles". My colleague, Tom Cottle, is the interviewer. Cleavon's first leading television role was that of the irreverent Dr. Jerry Noland on...
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 “...
