Overview - 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.

Cast

• Name: Cleavon Little

  Character: Bart

  Popularity: 0.8204

  

• Name: Gene Wilder

  Character: Jim

  Popularity: 1.0022

  

• Name: Slim Pickens

  Character: Taggart

  Popularity: 1.1059

  

• Name: Harvey Korman

  Character: Hedley Lamarr

  Popularity: 0.8922

  

• Name: Madeline Kahn

  Character: Lili Von Shtupp

  Popularity: 1.4645

  

• Name: Mel Brooks

  Character: Governor William J. Le Petomane / Indian Chief

  Popularity: 1.7929

  

• Name: Burton Gilliam

  Character: Lyle

  Popularity: 1.0728

  

• Name: Alex Karras

  Character: Mongo

  Popularity: 0.6935