Richard Pryor
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Richard Pryor was an American comedian and actor who lived from 1940 to 2005 and became one of the most influential figures in stand-up comedy. His work in comedy and film had a significant cultural impact during his lifetime and continues to be remembered today.
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- 1940-12-01
- Died
- 2005-12-10
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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, film director, social critic, satirist, writer, and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities, and profanity, as well as racial epithets. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant…
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- Breakdown: 1975 — Self (archive footage)2025
- John Candy: I Like Me — Self - Actor (archive footage)2025
- I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not — Self (archive footage)2025
- Remembering Gene Wilder — Self (archive footage)2024
- Zeitgeist: Requiem — Self (archive footage)2024
- Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2024
- Group Therapy — Self (archive footage)2024
- Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy — Self (archive footage)2024
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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) 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.
Pryor's body of work includes numerous concert films and recordings. He won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for That Nigger's Crazy (1974), ...Is It Something I Said? (1975), Bicentennial Nigger (1976), Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982), and Richard Pryor: Here and Now (1983). He is also known for Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin' (1971), Wanted: Live in Concert (1978), and Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979). Pryor served as a co-writer for the Mel Brooks satirical western comedy film Blazing Saddles (1974).
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