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Richard Pryor

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Richard Pryor - Live and Smokin'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 BluesLady Sings the Blues (1972) Recommended
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)Saturday Night Live (TV Series) (SNL) (1975-1976) Recommended
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 WashCar 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 StreakSilver Streak (1976) Recommended
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 CollarBlue Collar (1977) Recommended
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, TheRichard 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 SuiteCalifornia 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, TheWiz, 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 ConcertRichard Pryor - Live in Concert (1979) Recommended
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 PackRichard Pryor - Gene Wilder Collector's Pack (Stir Crazy, Another You, See No Evil Hear No Evil) (1980-1991)
Feat. Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor
Stir CrazyStir 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' LooseBustin' 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 StripRichard 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 3Superman 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 EvilSee 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 NightsHarlem 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 YouAnother 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 HighwayLost 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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