Entertainment & Arts
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 kept a swarm of greedy rednecks at bay in “Blazing Saddles,” died Thursday.
Oct. 23, 1992
“Midge and Nat are both 81 years old,” Cleavon Little says, referring to the characters he and co-star Judd Hirsch play in Herb Gardner’s “I’m Not Rappaport.”
June 15, 1987
Archives
Read Charles Champlin’s 1974 review of ‘Blazing Saddles’
Feb. 7, 1974
Travel & Experiences
The Gig (A&E; Thursday at 9 a.m.): Writer-director Frank D.
April 7, 1991
Actor Cleavon Little, a graduate of San Diego State University, will star in a world premiere retelling of the Pygmalion myth, commissioned by the Gaslamp Quarter Theatre for 1990.
Sept. 12, 1988
Movies
As the credits for the hilarious “Once Bitten” (citywide) unroll, a jodhpured-and-silk-shirted Cleavon Little sashays around a lush white-on-white interior to a tango beat, eventually placing a black rose on a breakfast--er, dinner--tray.
Nov. 15, 1985
Margaret “Maggi” Henderson, 77, president and partner of the Henderson/Hogan talent agency in New York and Los Angeles.
Jan. 11, 1996
Why is Cleavon Little referred to as a “black janitor,” when in the next sentence Judd Hirsch’s character is called simply “a retired waiter” (“Two Actors’ Role for the Ages” by Robert Hurwitt, June 15)?
June 20, 1987
Solo actor Cleavon Little, playing an old black man looking back on his life in the sharecropper South of the first half of the century, creates a beguiling American portrait tonight on “American Playhouse” in “All God’s Dangers” at 9 on Channel 28.
May 30, 1990
Frank D.
April 17, 1986