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Beans Morocco

Actor

Beans Morocco

Born June 8, 1934 in Ohio, USADied May 29, 202535 films

Beans Morocco, born Dan Barrows (June 8, 1934 — May 29, 2025), was an American character actor known for his eclectic roles across film and television, including Blazing Saddles (1974), Used Cars (1980), and Eating Raoul (1982) to episodes of Mork & Mindy, The Bob Newhart Show, and Growing Pains.

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Blazing Saddles posterFirst watchBlazing Saddles19747.2as Townsman (uncredited)Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad.View film

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Filmography

35 films as actor
  1. 2024Killing CookieCookie
  2. 2008Lone RiderRay
  3. 2007The Dukes of Hazzard: The BeginningOld Shiner
  4. 2003The KissWalt
  5. 2000Perfect GameClerk Librarian
  6. 1999A Fare to RememberLester
  7. 1995The American PresidentDoorkeeper
  8. 1994Wes Craven's New NightmareGraveyard Worker
  9. 1991What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?Drag Queen
  10. 1989Do You Know the Muffin Man?Marty
  11. 1989Police Academy 6: City Under SiegeBank President
  12. 1988Portrait of a White MarriageWilbur Neubauer
  13. 1988Hero and the TerrorPriest
  14. 1988Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami BeachBob the Janitor
  15. 1986Casey at the BatCharlie
  16. 1985Once BittenHarry (as Dan Barrows)
  17. 1985The Steel Collar ManAl (as Dan Barrows)
  18. 1984It Came Upon the Midnight ClearHarried Angel (as Dan Barrows)
  19. 1984Young Lust: A Soap OperaMr. Greshbit (as Dan Barrows)
  20. 1983Going BerserkMinister (as Dan Barrows)
  21. 1982Eating RaoulBobby R. - "Very Bad Boy" (as Dan Barrows)
  22. 1981Private LessonsGreen
  23. 1980Any Which Way You CanBaggage Man (as Dan Barrows)
  24. 1980Used CarsStanley Dewoski (as Dan Barrows)
  25. 1978Every Girl Should Have OneHomer (as Dan Barrows)
  26. 1977It Happened One ChristmasToll Keeper
  27. 1977The Absent-Minded Waiter
  28. 1976The Big BusSecond Cemetery Man
  29. 1976Mallory: Circumstantial EvidenceBartender
  30. 1975SmileAt the Party
  31. 1974Where Have All the People GoneMan with Gun
  32. 1974Blazing SaddlesTownsman (uncredited)
  33. 1973Steelyard BluesRocky
  34. 1972The Candidate
  35. 1971Billy JackStudent