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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor Sr. (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 widely regarded as one of the greatest and most important stand-up comedians of all time.
Paul Gladney (August 4, 1941 – May 19, 2021), better known by the stage name Paul Mooney, was an American comedian, writer, and actor. [1] He collaborated with Redd Foxx, Eddie Murphy and Dave Chappelle, wrote for comedian Richard Pryor and the television series Sanford and Son, In Living Color and Chappelle's Show, as well as acting in The Buddy Holly Story (1978), the Spike Lee-directed ...
The Toy is a 1982 American comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The film stars Richard Pryor as a janitor at a department store owned by a businessman played by Jackie Gleason. The owner's son, played by Scott Schwartz, is told that he may have anything in the toy department. He chooses the janitor, who the owner pays to spend a week with ...
Jennifer Lee Pryor — who was married to Pryor from 1981 to 1982, and remarried him in 2001 — was closely involved in curating Time Life's box set, and remembers being struck by how his vintage ...
Paul Mooney, the comedian, actor and writer for Richard Pryor, died on Wednesday morning, his representative Cassandra Williams confirmed to Variety. He was 79. He died at his home in Oakland ...
A sequel for 1985 comedy film Brewster's Millions starring Richard Pryor and based on the 1902 novel of the same name by George Barr McCutcheon. [1] It stars Pryor's son Richard Pryor Jr. as Montgomery Brewster with China Anne McClain, Romeo Miller, Rain Pryor, Telma Hopkins, Tequan Richmond and Sierra McClain. [2]
Kenya Barris joined the Variety Studio presented by Audible at the Sundance Film Festival and provided some new updates on three of his most high-profile new projects. It was announced back in ...
Pryor decided to produce the film himself after becoming frustrated with the lack of work he was getting in Hollywood. In his book In A Pryor Life, Pryor's son Richard Pryor Jr. said that it was funded with money from presents received for his marriage to his wife Shelley. [3] Details about the film's pre-production and shooting are hazy.