Cleavon Little
Also Known As: Cleavon Jake Little
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA
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Birthday: June 01, 1939
Age: 85 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 22, 1992
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Blazing Saddles
Overview: 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 henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-07
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Surf II: The End of the Trilogy
Overview: 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 Jocko, Chuck, Bob and their surfer buddies to save the day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-13
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Scavenger Hunt
Overview: 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 team, amongst his family and hired help, who wins a madcap scavenger hunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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Vanishing Point
Overview: 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, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-15
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Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Overview: 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 — to the film genres he so successfully satirized in Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, and Spaceballs — to the groundbreaking Broadway musical version of his first film, The Producers. The documentary also delves into his professional and personal ups and downs — his childhood, his first wife and subsequent 41-year marriage to Anne Bancroft — capturing a never-before-heard sense of reflection and confession.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-20
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Greased Lightning
Overview: The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-01
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Fletch Lives
Overview: 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 up dead, he becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-17
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Jimmy the Kid
Overview: Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-12
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High Risk
Overview: Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South American drug lord's compound.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-01
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Back in the Saddle
Overview: The cast of "Blazing Saddles" discusses salient points of the movie and its place in modern culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-19
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Once Bitten
Overview: 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 virgin into a vampire before Halloween in order to preserve her own youthful appearance, and when she finds Mark, she turns his life upside-down.
Genres: Comedy Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-15
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Double Exposure
Overview: 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 real life as they did in his dreams, he begins to go insane.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-03
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Perfect Harmony
Overview: 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?
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-31
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Separate But Equal
Overview: A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-07
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The Gig
Overview: 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 fill in. As they embark on the opportunity of a lifetime, dreams and reality begin to collide.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-25
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Once Upon a Brothers Grimm
Overview: While traveling to meet with the Hessian King, the famed Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, travel through an enchanted forest where they find themselves trapped in the world of their fairy tales.
Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-23
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What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-24
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Money to Burn
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-27
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The Day the Earth Moved
Overview: 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 walls begin to collapse.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-18
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FM
Overview: When a liberal music station's owners decide to introduce army recruitment ads, despite the protests of its manager, the rebellious DJs are determined to fight back, no matter the cost.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-20
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The Salamander
Overview: An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect these murders are linked to a plot to seize control of the government.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-25
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ALF’s Special Christmas
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-14
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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Overview: 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 the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-19
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Cotton Comes to Harlem
Overview: 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 land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson look into O'Malley's scam, they learn that the cash is being smuggled inside a bale of cotton. However, the police, O'Malley, and lots of others find themselves scrambling when the money goes missing.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-27
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E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind
Overview: A comic spoof of adult magazines and video shows.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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In the Nick of Time
Overview: Santa Claus is up for retirement after his 300 years, and he searches New York City for a replacement.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-16
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Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Overview: The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, to his emergence at age 43 in the major leagues with the Cleveland Indians the year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-31
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Murder by Numbers
Overview: Hired by the deceased's ex-wife, a private eye checks out the death of a gay man who had AIDS.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-30
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Toy Soldiers
Overview: 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 escape and join up with a mercenary fighting the terrorists.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-01
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The Sky Is Gray
Overview: 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 discovery of what it's like to be black in Louisiana during the 1940's. James, the boy in question, has a raging toothache that necessitates a trip to the dentist. His mother (played by Emmy-winner Olivia Cole), accompanies James to town on an eye-opening odyssey where the boy gains valuable insights into poverty, racism - and his own sense of pride. With an exciting musical score by Webster Lewis, this multi-award winning film explores a child's discovery that the world is a complicated place... where things are never truly black or white... only shades of gray.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
Overview: 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 failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-17
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Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
Overview: A documentary about Mel Brooks' legendary 1974 comedy «Blazing Saddles».
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-06
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Goin' to Chicago
Overview: About left wing students in 1964.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-10
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