Richard Pryor

American comedian and actor (1940–2005)

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor 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 ever. 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.

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Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 19 films (1967–1981) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 7 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▲	Title	Creator	Length	Format	Color	Sound
1967	The Busy Body	William Castle
1968	Wild In The Streets	American International Productions	91 min	16mm	Color	sound
1968	Wild in the Streets	American International Pictures	1:37:00	16mm	Color	sound
1971	Dynamite chicken.	Ernest Pintoff		16mm		sound
1972	Lady Sings The Blues	Motown Productions, Weston Associates & Furie Productions	147 min		Color	sound
1973	Hit!	Sidney J. Furie	134 min		Color	sound
1973	Some Call It Loving	James B. Harris
1973	The Mack	Michael Campus
1973	Wattstax	Stax Films & Wolper Pictures	100 min		Color	sound
1974	Uptown Saturday Night	Verdon Productions, Ltd., The First Artists Production Company, Ltd. & Warner Brothers, Inc	104 min		Color	sound
1976	Car Wash	Universal Pictures	97 min		Color	sound
1976	Silver Streak	Arthur Hiller
1976	The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings	John Badham
1977	Greased Lightning	Michael Schultz
1977	Which Way Is Up	Universal Pictures Co. Inc.		16mm		sound
1979	California Suite	a Ray Stark production; producer, Ray Stark; director, Herbert Ross	110 min			sound
1980	In God We Tru$t	Marty Feldman
1980	Stir Crazy	Sidney Poitier
1981	Bustin' loose.	Oz Scott	8460	16mm		sound