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Richard Pryor
Actor
Richard Pryor - Live and Smokin' (1971)- Feat. Richard Pryor
- Seminal Richard Pryor set filmed live and uncensored at New York's Improvisation club in 1971. All the comedic hallmarks are evident even at this…
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,…
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