Filmografía de Richard Pryor como actor
Películas protagonizadas por Richard Pryor
🎭 Self (Archival Footage)
8
2024
This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in The Producers, ...
🎭 Self (archive footage)
0
2024
Fourth in the Zeitgeist Film Series, director Peter Joseph explorers the fundamental incompatibility of our economy & the culture it has created with our future survival as a species, while posin ...
0
2023
"Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight" covers renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work “Drifting Toward Twilight”— commissioned by The Huntington Library, Art Museum, & Bota ...
🎭 Self (archive footage)
5.8
2022
In this comedy special, Jon Stewart, John Mulaney, Chelsea Handler and Dave Chappelle honor George Carlin, Joan Rivers, Robin Williams and Richard Pryor. ...
🎭 Self (archive footage)
0
2021
The iconic Mister Kelly’s bedazzled the country by launching superstars like Barbra Streisand, Richard Pryor, Bette Midler, and Steve Martin. It smashed color and gender barriers to put controv ...
🎭 Himself
10
2020
A two-hour television special on the life of Richard Pryor featuring interviews by those close to him, focusing on his contributions to standup comedy. ...
🎭 Self - Actor and Comedian (archive footage)
6.8
2019
The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005), the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who transcended racial and social barriers with his honest, irreverent and biting humor. ...
🎭 Self (archive footage)
6.2
2014
Richard Pryor's impact on the craft of comedy and today's top comics is legendary and unrivaled. This program surveys the profound and enduring influence of one of the greatest American comics of ...
🎭 Self (archive footage)
7
2014
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. May ...
🎭 Self (archive footage)
8.2
2013
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows — to the film genres he so successfully s ...
🎭 Self (archive footage)
7.1
2013
Mike Epps, Richard Pryor Jr. and others recount the culture-defining influence of Richard Pryor - one of America's most brilliant, iconic comic minds. ...
5.8
2008
Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the eyes moves out of a flickering chaos created by i ...
0
2007
In the late 1950s, a fresh, unconventional style of standup comedy emerged in sharp contrast to the standard "Take my wife, please" approach. It tackled such previously taboo subjects as sex, rel ...
🎭 Himself (archive footage)
6.6
2006
The film explores the history of the word throughout its inception to present day. Woven into the narrative are poetry, music, and commentary from celebrities about their personal experiences wit ...
🎭 Self (archive footage)
8
2003
This documentary praises comedian Richard Pryor by showing fragments of various shows Pryor made and having famous comedians talk about the importance and greatness of Pryor. Different themes are ...
🎭 Himself
6
1999
For fans of comedy, Sam Kinison needs no introduction. His scathing comedy tackled tough topics no other comedian dared to touch. Fed up and disenfranchised with his career as a Pentacostal preac ...
🎭 Self
6
1997
This documentary attempts to go beyond the sensationalized media coverage and the stereotypes to examine several key conflicts from the point of view of both Black and Jewish activists. ...
🎭 Self (archive footage)
0
1997
A series of thirty-two trailers put together to illustrate the film industry's attitude to and packaging of African-American screen imagery. ...
🎭 Arnie
7.6
1997
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell. ...
🎭 Jimmy the Gravedigger
5.5
1996
With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire. ...
🎭 Self (archive footage)
10
1994
A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians. ...
🎭 Narrator / Wino / Bartender
0
1991
Donna Bon Viant (Belaine) is a college student, who has to complete an assignment on the 14th century for her African American literature class. She chooses to base her writings on The Three Musk ...
🎭 Eddie Dash
5.4
1991
George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people ...
🎭 Self
9.3
1990
Celebrating Sammy Davis Jr 's 60th anniversary in show business, including musical,comic and dancing performers. ...
🎭 Sugar Ray
6.1
1989
'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime an ...
🎭 Wallace 'Wally' Karue
6.7
1989
A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arres ...
🎭 Arlo Pear
5.5
1988
Por un cambio de trabajo, un ingeniero, Arlo Pear, y su familia deben trasladarse a Idaho desde Nueva Jersey. Todo serán problemas en el largo viaje. La llamada Operación Idaho es dificultada p ...
🎭 Eddie Lenahan/Dr. Kevin Slattery
5.6
1987
Eddie is a con artist. When he's framed and comes before a judge, he hopes to get off the hook by climbing insanity—but instead ends up in a hospital for a mental assessment. That night, a stor ...
🎭 Jo Jo Dancer / Alter Ego
6.4
1986
Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in ...
🎭 Self
0
1986
A compilation film of stand up performances and comedy routines featuring some of the biggest stars in the early years of television. This film was directed by Sandy Olivieri. Here is a partial l ...
🎭 Self
5
1985
This documentary treats movie fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Superman III, a more comical take on the superhero story in which the Man of Steel takes on a supercomputer and its ...
🎭 Montgomery Brewster
6.6
1985
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without tell ...
🎭 Self
6.6
1983
One of comedian Richard Pryor's later stand-up performances. As foul-mouthed as ever, Pryor touches on most of the same topics as in his previous live shows. ...
🎭 August "Gus" Gorman
5.5
1983
Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects in th ...
🎭 Self - Host
8.2
1983
Television special taped before a live studio audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on March 25, 1983, and broadcast on NBC on May 16. Highlights include Michael Jacks ...
🎭 Jack Brown
5.8
1982
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him la ...
🎭 Cpl. Eddie Keller / Ted Segal
5.5
1982
A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country. ...
🎭 Self
7.3
1982
Richard Pryor's stand-up act includes his frank discussion about his freebasing addiction, as well as the infamous night on June 9, 1980 that he caught on fire. ...
🎭 Joe Braxton
5.9
1981
After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country. ...
🎭 Harry Monroe
6.5
1980
New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening o ...
🎭 G.O.D.
6.1
1980
A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose, is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to Hollywood where he encounters a number of eccentri ...
🎭 Pharaoh
4.8
1980
Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from God to free his people from slavery, but Moses ...
🎭 Balloon Vendor
7.1
1979
A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant! ...
🎭 Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
0
1979
Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hosted by James Earl Jones titled A Walking Tour of Sesame Street. The special aired on individual ...
🎭 Self
7.3
1979
Richard Pryor delivers monologues on race, sex, family and his favorite target—himself, live at the Terrace Theatre in Long Beach, California. ...
🎭 Dr. Chauncey Gump
5.8
1978
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel. ...
🎭 The Wiz
6
1978
En esta versión pop de 'El mago de Oz', Dorothy es una joven muy tímida que trabaja en Harlem como profesora de guardería. Mientras busca a su perro Toto, que se ha perdido durante una ventisc ...
🎭 Ezekiel 'Zeke' Brown
7.4
1978
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at un ...
🎭 Leroy Jones/Rufus Jones/Rev. Lenox Thomas
6
1977
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid spouse, Annie Mae. He heads for Los Angeles, whe ...
🎭 Wendell Scott
6.4
1977
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race. ...
🎭 Self / Various
6.3
1977
Richard Pryor wanders around the NBC Studio, encountering various eccentrics. Meanwhile, the Reverend James L. White, the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada and others are taping their own segments. ...
0
1977
Unaired roast of Richard Pryor by the cast of The Richard Pryor Show including Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society), Sandra Bernhard (Without You I'm Nothing), Shirley Hemphill ...
🎭 Grover Muldoon
6.7
1976
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing som ...
🎭 Daddy Rich
5.9
1976
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talk ...
🎭 Charlie Snow
6
1976
In the world of 1930s Negro League baseball, a spirited team of renegade players travels around the Midwest looking for that one big score. Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, and James Earl Jones ...
🎭 Sam Spade
3.7
1975
Two incompetent Western outlaws engineer several failed crimes, including a botched stagecoach holdup. Fred Williamson, a tough-guy perennial in blaxploitation movies, does a rare comedy turn as ...
🎭 Self
0
1975
A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975. ...
🎭 Sharp Eye Washington
6.2
1974
Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup. ...
🎭 Juke
0
1973
“WINTER, 1973. Late afternoon: the entr'acte between dusk and darkness, when the people who conduct their business in the street -- numbers runners in gray chesterfields, out-of-work barmaids p ...
🎭 Jeff
4.7
1973
A jazz musician falls in love with a comatose woman at a carny sideshow and takes her to his mansion to join his cabinet of sexual curiosities. ...
🎭 Mike Willmer
5.7
1973
Jeannie, una bonita chica de color, estaba en el auto de su novio probando drogas. Ella no era adicta, solamente una chiquilla experimentando nuevas travesuras. Ahora yace muerta bajo un montón ...
🎭 Slim
6.4
1973
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small ti ...
🎭 Self
6.8
1973
Una película documental sobre el concierto afroamericano de Woodstock celebrado en Los Ángeles siete años después de los disturbios de Watts. El director Mel Stuart mezcla imágenes del conci ...
🎭 Piano Man
6.9
1972
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured. ...
🎭 Wino
8.5
1971
This oddball counterculture comedy/drama follows Zalman King through a series of kooky misadventures while he searches for his life's purpose in New York City. ...
🎭 Self
6.3
1971
Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin' is the first stand-up act of Richard Pryor to be filmed out of the four that were released in total. This film was filmed in 1971 but not released until 1985, on ...
🎭 Self
5.4
1971
A collection of subversive comedy sketches and routines relating to the peace movement. ...
🎭 Richard Pryor
3.5
1970
Una banda de rock es enviada a Albania con el fin de localizar a unos estadounidenses secuestrados en un alejado castillo. ...
🎭 Pvt. Jonathan Crunk
4.7
1970
A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allies' advance into ...
🎭 Otis Tucker
0
1969
Attorney Michael Cannon leaves his Boston law firm to become director of the Neighborhood Law Office, where he guides three law students on a case involving two visiting musicians accused of robb ...
0
1969
A white man goes on trial for having raped a black woman. ...
🎭 Stanley X
5.9
1968
Después de fugarse de casa prendiendo fuego al coche de sus padres a los quince años y convertirse en multimillonario a los diecinueve gracias a su banda de rock, con cuyos eclécticos componen ...
🎭 Whittaker
7.1
1967
Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse. ...