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Richard Pryor

Highest Rated:
100% Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (2000)
Lowest Rated:
11% Another You (1991)
Birthday:
Dec 1, 1940
Birthplace:
Peoria, Illinois, USA
Bio:
African-American comedian Richard Pryor grew up bombarded by mixed messages. Pryor's grandmother owned a string of brothels, his mother prostituted herself, and his father was a pimp. Still, they raised Richard to be honest, polite, and religious. Living in one of the worst slums in Peoria, IL,…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 11% - 100%
Number of Movies: 54
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2009 Make 'Em Laugh
  • Actor
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2005 Richard Pryor:Stand Up
  • Actor
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2003 Richard Pryor - I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
  • Actor
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2002 Under the Covers
  • Actor
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2000 100% Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
  • Actor
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1997 Sam Kinison - Why Did We Laugh?
  • Actor
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1997 59% Lost Highway
  • Arnie
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1997 Century of Black Cinema
  • Actor
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1996 17% Mad Dog Time
  • Actor
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1993 But...Seriously
  • Actor
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1991 The Three Muscatels
  • Actor
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1991 11% Another You
  • Eddie Dash
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1989 21% Harlem Nights
  • Sugar Ray
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1989 18% See No Evil, Hear No Evil
  • Wally Karew
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1988 Moving
  • Arlo Pear
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1986 55% Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling
  • Jo Jo Dancer
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1986 Lily Tomlin
  • Actor
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1986 Critical Condition
  • Eddie/Kevin
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1985 38% Brewster's Millions
  • Montgomery Brewster
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1983 83% Richard Pryor - Here and Now
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
  • Actor
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1983 24% Superman III
  • Gus Gorman
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1982 11% The Toy
  • Jack Brown
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1982 Some Kind of Hero
  • Eddie Keller
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1981 Bustin' Loose
  • Joe Braxton
  • Director
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1981 Richard Pryor - Live and Smokin'
  • Actor
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1980 Wholly Moses!
  • Pharaoh
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1980 67% Stir Crazy
  • Harry Monroe
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1980 In God We Tru$t (In God We Trust) (Gimme That Prime Time Religion)
  • God
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1979 91% Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
  • Actor
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1979 90% The Muppet Movie
  • Balloon Man
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1978 88% Blue Collar
  • Zeke Brown
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1978 29% The Wiz
  • The Wiz (Herman Smith)
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1978 58% California Suite
  • Dr. Chauncy Gump
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1977 20% Which Way Is Up?
  • Leroy Jones
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1976 83% Silver Streak
  • Grover Muldoon
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1976 87% The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings
  • Charlie Snow
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1976 86% Car Wash
  • Daddy Rich
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1975 Adios Amigo
  • Actor
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1974 71% Uptown Saturday Night
  • Sharp Eye Washington
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1974 89% Blazing Saddles
  • Screenwriter
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1973 86% Wattstax
  • Actor
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1973 Some Call It Loving
  • Jeff
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1973 Hit!
  • Mike Willmer
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1973 The Mack
  • Slim
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1972 75% Lady Sings the Blues
  • Piano Man
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1971 Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin'
  • Actor
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1970 The Phynx
  • Himself
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1970 Dynamite Chicken
  • Himself
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1969 Black Brigade
  • Jonathan Crunk
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1969 Dynamite Chicken
  • Actor
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1968 22% The Green Berets
  • Collier
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1968 63% Wild in the Streets
  • Stanley X
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1967 The Busy Body
  • Actor
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Lily Tomlin
  • Actor
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Quotes from Richard Pryor's Characters

    1. Sheriff Chauncey: Hello, Car 36, what the hell happened to you guys?
    2. Grover Muldoon: [into the radio] Hey Chauncey, this is Grover T. Muldoon. You wanna know what happened? We just whooped your ass. We whooped your ass. Ha ha ha!
    From Silver Streak. Submitted by Francis L (2 days ago)
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