Richard Pryor

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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,…
Richard Pryor - Gene Wilder Collector's Pack (Stir Crazy, Another You, See No Evil Hear No Evil) (1980-1991): Feat. Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor
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…
Superman 3 (Superman III) (1983): Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper…; Further adventures of the 'man of steel' (Reeve) this time the victim of a personality reversal, which complicates his fight against a meglomaniac…
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…

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