Richard Pryor
Actor
Films to Rent
- Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
- Dir. Sidney J. Furie
Feat. Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor…
- Diana Ross is terrific in her acting debut as famously–troubled jazz legend Billie Holiday in this flawed but fascinating biographical drama…
- Saturday Night Live (TV Series) (SNL) (1975-1976)
- Feat. Richard Pryor, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore…
- The legendary, long–running NBC variety show, responsible for incubating the careers of every major American comedian since 1975. Original cast…
- Car Wash (1976)
- Dir. Michael Schultz
Feat. Sully Boyar, Ivan Dixon, Bill Duke…
- A Joel Schumacher–written blaxploitation comedy that offers plenty of opportunities to thrash Rose Royce's eminently catchy pop song.
- Silver Streak (1976)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh…
- Considered the first and best pairing of Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, this is an unusual yet relaxed mix of comedy, romance, action thriller and…
- Blue Collar (1977)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Pryor
- As one might expect from the writer of TAXI DRIVER, dir. Schrader's debut is a gritty, tough–minded drama of macho ethics, set in the grinding…
- Richard Pryor Show, The (1977)
- Feat. Richard Pryor, Robin Williams, Sandra Bernhard
- The Richard Pryor Show features the outrageous comedian at his peak. Airing in 1977, this cutting–edge sketch comedy program dared to challenge…
- California Suite (1978)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith…
- Five couples converge on the Beverly Hills Hotel during ‘Oscar–week’ to play out various marital dramas. Likeable comedy assembles a…
- Wiz, The (1978)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor
- Much maligned 'black musical' version of L. Frank Baum's classic fairytale (best known through the Judy Garland version).
Here, New York City was…
- Richard Pryor - Live in Concert (1979)
- Dir. Jeff Margolis
Feat. Richard Pryor
- The ground breaking black comedian at his finest ‘standup’ moment – picking up the tradition of Lenny Bruce and stretching it into raunchy,…
- Stir Crazy (1980)
- Dir. Sidney Poitier
Feat. Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Craig T. Nelson
- The first and best of the Pryor/Wilder comedies, about a pair of clumsy crooks who land in jail. Plenty of laughs – though fairly predictable…
- Bustin' Loose (1981)
- Dir. Oz Scott
Feat. Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson
- Comedian Richard Pryor produced, wrote and starred in this mad 80's comedy involving a criminal forced to help out the director of a school for…
- Richard Pryor - Here and Now / Live on Sunset Strip (1982-1983)
- Feat. Richard Pryor
- Two stellar examples of Richard Pryor in his comedy prime: in HERE AND NOW, Pryor is at his bawdy best performing live in New Orleans; in LIVE ON THE…
- See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder
- Average teaming of Wilder and Pryor as a deaf man and a blind man on the lam. The high obscene–language level doesn't yield much comic results.
- Harlem Nights (1989)
- Dir. Eddie Murphy
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx…
- An excellent comic cast can't save this mismatched black American riff on THE GODFATHER series, set amid the 1930s jazz–club underworld of…
- Another You (1991)
- Dir. Maurice Phillips
Feat. Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Mercedes Ruehl
- The final collaboration between Pryor and Wilder has its moments within a fairly weak plot about a pair of dishonest types drawn into a congame.
- Lost Highway (1997)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty…
- Welcome to Lynchland. Where picket fences surround troubled, violent, sexual twisted souls who converse in awkwardly measured rhythms.
David Lynch…