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Cleavon Little Biography (1939-)

Born June 1, 1939, in Chickasha, OK; son of Malachi (a gardener) and DeEtta (Jones) Little; married Valerie Wiggins, February 19, 1972 (divorced, 1974). Addresses: AGENT--Jack Fields Agency, 9255 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069; William Morris Agency, 151 El Camino Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Birth Details

June 1, 1939

Chickasha, Oklahoma, United States

Famous Works

• Credits; PRINCIPAL FILM APPEARANCES
• What's So Bad About Feeling Good, Universal, 1968.
• Cotton Comes to Harlem, United Artists, 1970.
• Vanishing Point, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1971.
• Blazing Saddles, Warner Brothers, 1974.
• Greased Lightning, Warner Brothers, 1977.
• FM, Universal, 1978.
• Scavenger Hunt, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979.
• High Risk, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1981.
• Jimmy the Kid, Zephyr, 1982.
• Once Bitten, Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1985.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL TELEVISION APPEARANCES; SERIES
• Regular, The David Frost Revue, syndicated, 1971-73.
• Jerry Noland, Temperature's Rising, ABC, 1972-74.
• Credits; EPISODIC
• "Uptown Saturday Night," Comedy Theatre, NBC, 1981.
• All in the Family, CBS.
• Felony Squad, ABC.
• Loveboat, ABC.
• Credits; PILOTS
• Mr. Dugan, CBS.
• Credits; MOVIES
• The Homecoming--A Christmas Story, CBS, 1971.
• The Brothers Grimm, 1977.
• Don't Look Back, 1981.
• Also The Day the Earth Moved.
• STAGE DEBUT--A Raisin in the Sun, Globe Theatre, San Diego, CA.
• OFF-BROADWAY DEBUT--Americana, American National Theatre Academy (ANTA) matinee series, Theatre de Lys, January 8, 1966.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE APPEARANCES
• The Skin of Our Teeth, La Jolla Playhouse, CA.
• Macbeth, New York Shakespeare Festival (NYSF), Mobile Theatre, 1966.
• Muslim Witch and a conspirator, MacBird!, Village Gate Theatre, New YorkCity, 1967.
• Foxtrot, Scuba Duba, New Theatre, New York City, 1967.
• title role, Hamlet, NYSF, Mobile Theatre, New York City, 1968.
• Lee Haines, Jimmy Shine, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1968.
• Paul Odum, Someone's Comin' Hungry, Pocket Theatre, New York City, 1969.
• Rufus, The Ofay Watcher, Stage 73 Theatre, New York City, 1969.
• Father Xavier, Kumaliza, The Other Stage Theatre, New York City, 1969.
• Title role, Purlie, Broadway Theatre, New York City, 1970.
• Shogo, Narrow Road to the Deep North, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, New York City, 1972.
• title role, The Great Macdaddy, with the Negro Ensemble Company, St. Mark's Playhouse, 1974.
• Corpie, The Charlatan, Mark Taper Forum Theatre, Los Angeles, 1974.
• Lewis, All Over Town, Booth Theatre, New York City, 1974.
• Willy Stepp, The Poison Tree, Ambassador Theatre, New York City, 1976.
• Narrator, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Brooklyn AcademyTheatre, New York City, 1976.
• Same Time Next Year, 1977.
• Oberon, A Midsummer Night's Dream, with the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival, 1978.
• Simon Able, Sly Fox, San Diego production, 1978.
• Lester Young, The Resurrection of Lady Lester, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City, 1981.
• Meadowlark Rachel Warner, Two Fish in the Sky, Theatre at St.
• Peter's Church, New York City, 1982.
• title role, Keyboard, with the Henry Street Settlement, Louis Abrons Artsfor Living Center, New York City, 1982.
• Midge, I'm Not Rappaport, Seattle Repertory Theatre, WA, 1985, American Place Theatre, New York City, 1985, and Booth Theatre, New York City, 1986.