Richard Pryor - Wikipedia. Richard Pryor. Pryor in February 1. Birth name. Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor. Born(1. 94. 0- 1.

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December 1, 1. 94. Peoria, Illinois, U. S. Died. December 1. Encino, Los Angeles, California, U.

S. Medium. Stand- up, film, television. Nationality. American. Years active. 19.

Genres. Political satire, observational comedy, black comedy, improvisational comedy, character comedy. Subject(s)Racism, race relations, American politics, African- American culture, human sexuality, religion, self- deprecation, everyday life, recreational drug use. Spouse. Patricia Price (m. 1. Shelley R. Bonus (m. 1. Deborah Mc. Guire (m. 1.

Jennifer Lee (m. 1. Flynn Belaine (m. 1. Flynn Belaine (m. 1. Jennifer Lee (m. 2. Children. 7Notable works and roles.

Himself in Richard Pryor: Live in Concert and Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip. Daddy Rich in Car Wash. Wally Karue in See No Evil, Hear No Evil. Harry Monroe in Stir Crazy. Gus Gorman in Superman IIIMonty Brewster in Brewster's Millions.

Website. Richard. Pryor. com. Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1, 1. December 1. 0, 2.

American comedian, actor, and social critic. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities and profanity, as well as racial epithets. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style.

He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand- up comedians of all time: Jerry Seinfeld called Pryor "The Picasso of our profession"[2. Bob Newhart heralded Pryor as "the seminal comedian of the last 5. Dave Chappelle said of Pryor, "You know those, like, evolution charts of man? He was the dude walking upright.

Richard was the highest evolution of comedy."[2. This legacy can be attributed, in part, to the unusual degree of intimacy Pryor brought to bear on his comedy. As Bill Cosby reportedly once said, "Richard Pryor drew the line between comedy and tragedy as thin as one could possibly paint it."[2. Pryor's body of work includes the concert movies and recordings: Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin' (1. That Nigger's Crazy (1.

Is It Something I Said? Bicentennial Nigger (1. Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1. Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1. Richard Pryor: Here and Now (1. As an actor, he starred mainly in comedies such as Silver Streak (1.

Paul Schrader's Blue Collar (1. Superman III (1. 98. He collaborated on many projects with actor Gene Wilder. Another frequent collaborator was actor/comedian/writer Paul Mooney. Pryor won an Emmy Award (1. Grammy Awards (1. In 1. 97. 4, he also won two American Academy of Humor awards and the Writers Guild of America Award.

The first- ever Kennedy Center. Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was presented to him in 1. He was listed at number one on Comedy Central's list of all- time greatest stand- up comedians.[2. In 2. 01. 7, Rolling Stone ranked him first on its list of the 5. Early life[edit]Born on December 1, 1. Peoria, Illinois, Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor grew up in his grandmother's brothel, where his mother, Gertrude L.

Thomas), practiced prostitution.[2. His father, Le. Roy "Buck Carter" Pryor (June 7, 1. September 2. 7, 1. After his alcoholic mother abandoned him when he was 1.

Pryor was raised primarily by his grandmother Marie Carter,[2. Pryor was one of four children raised in his grandmother's brothel and was sexually abused at age seven.[3. He was expelled from school at the age of 1. His first professional performance was playing drums at a night club.

Pryor served in the U. S. Army from 1. 95. According to a 1. Pryor in The New Yorker, Pryor was incarcerated for an incident that occurred while stationed in Germany.

Angered that a white soldier was overly amused at the racially charged sections of Douglas Sirk's movie Imitation of Life (1. Pryor and some other black soldiers beat and stabbed him, though not fatally.[3.

Early career (1. 96. Publicity photo of Pryor for one of his Mister Kelly's appearances, 1. In 1. 96. 3, Pryor moved to New York City and began performing regularly in clubs alongside performers such as Bob Dylan and Woody Allen. On one of his first nights, he opened for singer and pianist Nina Simone at New York's Village Gate. Simone recalls Pryor's bout of performance anxiety: He shook like he had malaria, he was so nervous. I couldn't bear to watch him shiver, so I put my arms around him there in the dark and rocked him like a baby until he calmed down.

The next night was the same, and the next, and I rocked him each time.[3. Inspired by Bill Cosby, Pryor began as a middlebrow comic, with material far less controversial than what was to come. Soon, he began appearing regularly on television variety shows, such as The Ed Sullivan Show, The Merv Griffin Show, and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. His popularity led to success as a comic in Las Vegas. The first five tracks on the 2. CD Evolution/Revolution: The Early Years (1.

Pryor in this period. In September 1. 96. Alphas Full Episodes Season 2 on this page.

Pryor had what he described in his autobiography Pryor Convictions (1. He walked onto the stage at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas (with Dean Martin in the audience), looked at the sold- out crowd, exclaimed over the microphone, "What the fuck am I doing here!?", and walked off the stage. Afterward, Pryor began working profanity into his act, including the word "nigger". His first comedy recording, the eponymous 1. Dove/Reprise label, captures this particular period, tracking the evolution of Pryor's routine.

Around this time, his parents died—his mother in 1. Mainstream success[edit]1.

In 1. 96. 9, Pryor moved to Berkeley, California, where he immersed himself in the counterculture and rubbed elbows with the likes of Huey P. Newton and Ishmael Reed. He signed with the comedy- oriented independent record label Laff Records in 1. Craps (After Hours). Two years later, the relatively unknown comedian appeared in the documentary Wattstax (1. Watts and the nation. Not long afterward, Pryor sought a deal with a larger label, and he signed with Stax Records in 1.

When his third, breakthrough album, That Nigger's Crazy (1. Laff, which claimed ownership of Pryor's recording rights, almost succeeded in getting an injunction to prevent the album from being sold. Negotiations led to Pryor's release from his Laff contract. In return for this concession, Laff was enabled to release previously unissued material, recorded between 1. That Nigger's Crazy was a commercial and critical success; it was eventually certified gold by the RIAA[3. Grammy Award for Best Comedic Recording at the 1.

Grammy Awards. During the legal battle, Stax briefly closed its doors. At this time, Pryor returned to Reprise/Warner Bros.

Records, which re- released That Nigger's Crazy, immediately after .. Is It Something I Said?, his first album with his new label. Like That Nigger's Crazy, the album was a hit with both critics and fans; it was eventually certified platinum by the RIAA and won the Grammy Award for Best Comedic Recording at the 1. Grammy Awards. Pryor's release Bicentennial Nigger (1.

It became his third consecutive gold album, and he collected his third consecutive Grammy for Best Comedic Recording for the album in 1. With every successful album Pryor recorded for Warner (or later, his concert films and his 1. Watch Stone Cold Streaming.

Laff quickly published an album of older material to capitalize on Pryor's growing fame—a practice they continued until 1. The covers of Laff albums tied in thematically with Pryor movies, such as Are You Serious? Silver Streak (1. The Wizard of Comedy for his appearance in The Wiz (1.

Insane for Stir Crazy (1. Pryor also performed in the Lily Tomlin specials. He is seen here with Tomlin and Alan Alda in Tomlin's 1. In the 1. 97. 0s, Pryor wrote for such television shows as Sanford and Son, The Flip Wilson Show, and a 1. Lily Tomlin special, for which he shared an Emmy Award.[3. During this period, Pryor tried to break into mainstream television.