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Mar 7, 2024 · Richard Pryor was the first black actor to earn $1 million for a film role, which he accomplished thanks to 1980's "Stir Crazy." In 1983, he signed a five-year, $40 million contract to with ...
Dec 12, 2005 · Richard Pryor, the groundbreaking comedian whose profanely personal insights into race relations and modern life made him one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, died of a heart attack Saturday. He ...
Jun 12, 2020 · Richard Pryor made this observation about police in 1979. It sounds like the present day.Watch Richard Pryor: Live in Concert, only on Netflix. https://www.n...
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Pryor found success in his first comedy special, Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin’ in 1971, but it was his sophomore effort in 1974, That N*****’s Crazy, was what helped he sky-rocket to fame. Though he confessed in later years that he regretted the name of the stand-up special, the album won him his first of many Grammy Awards and it turned ...
The Richard Pryor Show was an American comedy variety show starring and created by Richard Pryor. It premiered on NBC on Tuesday, September 13, 1977. The bes...
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Jun 17, 2024 · Richard Pryor (born December 1, 1940, Peoria, Illinois, U.S.—died December 10, 2005, Los Angeles, California) was an American comedian and actor, who was one of the leading comics of the 1970s and ’80s. His comedy routines drew on a variety of downtrodden urban characters, rendered with brutal emotional honesty.
Dec 11, 2005 · Richard Pryor, the only child of Leroy Pryor and Gertrude Thomas Pryor, was born in Peoria, Ill., on Dec. 1, 1940, and raised in a household where, as he wrote, "I lived among an assortment of ...
