Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor

Actor 47 / Writer 3 / Director 2 · 1953 – 2013 · 🎬 49 📺 3 · 🇺🇸 United States

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Known for reaching a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, he is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential comedians of all time. Pryor won a Primetime Emmy Award and five Grammy Awards. He received the first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 1998. He won the Writers Guild of America Award in 1974.

All · 52 🎬 Movies · 49 📺 TV · 3

comedy film drama film crime film Stand-up comedy buddy film

Highlights

Which Way Is Up?

1979

Richard Pryor: Live in Concert

1979

Richard Pryor: Live in Concert

1979

Frequent Collaborators

Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder

6 shared

Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks

5 shared

Dom DeLuise

Dom DeLuise

4 shared

Fred Williamson

Fred Williamson

4 shared

Michael Schultz

4 shared

Paula Kelly

Paula Kelly

3 shared

All decades 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

🎬 Movies

Which Way Is Up?

actor

1979

Richard Pryor: Live in Concert

writer

1979

Richard Pryor: Live in Concert

actor

1979

The Wiz

actor

1978

Car Wash

actor

1978

Silver Streak

actor

1977

Greased Lightning

actor

1977

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings

actor

1976

Adiós Amigo

actor

1976

Lady Sings the Blues

actor

1975

Blazing Saddles

writer

1974

Uptown Saturday Night

actor

1974

Wattstax

Wattstax

actor

1973

Hit!

actor

1973

The Mack

actor

1973

You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat

actor

1971

Dynamite Chicken

actor

1971

The Phynx

actor

1970

📺 TV Shows

The Richard Pryor Show

The Richard Pryor Show

actor

1977

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