Richard Pryor
Another You (1991)
Another You is a 1991 American comedy film directed by Maurice Phillips and produced and written by Ziggy Steinberg. The film stars Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Mercedes Ruehl, Vanessa Williams and Kevin Pollak. The film was released in the United States on July 26, 1991.
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Danny Aiello•Bob Hope•Edgar Bergen
Harlem Nights (1989)
Harlem Nights is a 1989 American crime comedy-drama film starring and directed by Eddie Murphy, who also wrote. The film co-stars Richard Pryor, Michael Lerner, Danny Aiello, Redd Foxx, Della Reese, and Murphy's older brother Charlie. The film was released theatrically on November 17, 1989, by Paramount Pictures. The film tells the story of "Sugar"...
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Jackie Gleason•Robert Ryan•Shelley Winters•Sidney Poitier•Cloris Leachman•Walter Matthau•Robert Vaughn
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
See No Evil, Hear No Evil is a 1989 American comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller. The film stars Richard Pryor as a blind man and Gene Wilder as a deaf man who work together to thwart a trio of murderous thieves. This is the third film featuring Wilder and Pryor, who had appeared previously in the 1976 film Silver Streak and the 1980 film Stir Cr...
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Danny Aiello•Antonio Fargas•Sid Caesar
Moving (1988)
Moving is a 1988 American comedy film starring Richard Pryor as Arlo Pear, a father moving his family cross-country.
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Maggie Smith•James Earl Jones
Critical Condition (1987)
Critical Condition is a 1987 American comedy film starring Richard Pryor and directed by Michael Apted. The film was released in the United States on January 16, 1987.
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Arlene Golonka•Michael Caine•Cicely Tyson
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986)
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling is a 1986 American biographical comedy-drama film directed, produced by and starring Richard Pryor, who also wrote the screenplay with Paul Mooney and Rocco Urbisci. Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling was Richard Pryor's first and only directorial effort, although he is credited as such on the screen version of hi...
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Gene Wilder•Harvey Keitel
Brewster's Millions (1985)
Brewster's Millions is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Walter Hill. The film stars Richard Pryor and John Candy. The screenplay by Herschel Weingrod and Timothy Harris was based on the 1902 novel of the same name by George Barr McCutcheon. It is the seventh film based on the story.
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Elliott Gould•Joan Severance•Max Julien
Richard Pryor: Here and Now (1983)
Richard Pryor: Here and Now is a 1983 American stand-up comedy concert film starring, written and directed by Richard Pryor. The film was released in the United States on October 28, 1983.
Starring: Kevin Spacey
Superman III (1983)
Superman III is a 1983 superhero film directed by Richard Lester from a screenplay by David Newman and Leslie Newman based on the DC Comics character Superman. It is the third installment in the Superman film series and a sequel to Superman II (1980). The film features a cast of Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Annette...
Starring: Hal Holbrook•Margot Kidder•Kevin Spacey•Bill Cosby•Jill Clayburgh•Redd Foxx•Peter Boyle•Pam Grier
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982)
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip is the seventeenth album by American comedian Richard Pryor. Produced by Pryor and Biff Dawes, the album was released alongside the comedian's film of the same name in 1982. The material includes Pryor's frank discussion of his drug addiction and of the night that he caught on fire while freebasing cocaine in...
Starring: Kevin Spacey
Some Kind of Hero (1982)
Some Kind of Hero is a 1982 American comedy-drama film starring Richard Pryor as a returning Vietnam War veteran having trouble adjusting to civilian life. Soon he is involved in an organized crime heist. It co-stars Margot Kidder and was directed by Michael Pressman.
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Bill Cosby•Zalman King
The Toy (1982)
The Toy is a 1982 American comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The film stars Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason, Ned Beatty, Scott Schwartz, Teresa Ganzel, and Virginia Capers. It is an adaptation of the 1976 French comedy film Le Jouet.
Starring: Cleavon Little•Kevin Spacey•Ronny Cox•Al Goldstein•Diana Ross
Bustin' Loose (1981)
Bustin' Loose is a 1981 American road comedy-drama film starring Richard Pryor and Cicely Tyson. It was directed by Oz Scott and Michael Schultz (uncredited) and written by Pryor, Lonne Elder III, and Roger L. Simon. Along with starring Pryor and Tyson, the film also features Robert Christian and George Coe. Bustin' Loose was produced by Michael S....
Starring: Margaret Avery•Kevin Spacey
In God We Tru$t (1980)
In God We Tru$t is a 1980 American comedy film starring Marty Feldman, Andy Kaufman, Louise Lasser and Peter Boyle. Intended as a biting religious satire, it was also produced, directed and co-written by Feldman.
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Roger E. Mosley•Tisa Farrow
Stir Crazy (1980)
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, produced by Hannah Weinstein and written by Bruce Jay Friedman. The film stars Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as two unemployed friends who are given 125-year prison sentences after getting framed for a bank robbery. While in prison they befriend other prison inmates. The film reu...
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Danny Aiello
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Muppet Movie is a musical road comedy film directed by James Frawley, produced by Jim Henson, and the first theatrical film featuring the Muppets. A co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, the film was written by The Muppet Show writers Jerry Juhl and Jack Burns. Produced between the first and second half of The Muppet S...
Starring: Stan Shaw•Stephen Collins•Franklyn Ajaye•George Carlin•Lorraine Gary•Bill Duke•Kevin Spacey•Annette O'Toole•Michael Lerner•Dana Plato
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert is a 1979 American stand-up comedy film starring Richard Pryor and directed by Jeff Margolis.
Starring: Kevin Spacey
Blue Collar (1978)
Blue Collar is a 1978 American crime drama film directed by Paul Schrader in his directorial debut. Written by Schrader and his brother Leonard, the film stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto. The film is both a critique of union practices and an examination of life in a working-class Rust Belt enclave.
Starring: Marc McClure•Kevin Spacey•John Candy
California Suite (1978)
California Suite is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Herbert Ross. The screenplay by Neil Simon is based on his 1976 play of the same name. Similar to his earlier Plaza Suite, the film focuses on the dilemmas of guests staying in a suite in a luxury hotel. Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in ...
Starring: Joe Mantegna•Andy Kaufman•Eddie Murphy•Scott Schwartz•Kevin Spacey•Wings Hauser•Dana Carvey•Arsenio Hall
Greased Lightning (1977)
Greased Lightning is a 1977 American biographical film starring Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges, and Pam Grier, and directed by Michael Schultz. The film is loosely based on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first Black NASCAR race winner and, later, a 2015 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee.
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Rachel Ticotin•Mercedes Ruehl
Which Way Is Up? (1977)
Which Way is Up? is a 1977 American comedy film starring Richard Pryor and directed by Michael Schultz. It is a remake of the 1972 Italian comedy film The Seduction of Mimi. Richard Pryor plays three roles: an orange picker who has two women at the same time, the orange picker's father, and a reverend who gets the orange picker's wife pregnant.
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Jasmine Guy•Joan Severance
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings is a 1976 American sports comedy film about a team of enterprising ex-Negro league baseball players in the era of racial segregation. Loosely based upon William Brashler's 1973 novel of the same name, it starred Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones and Richard Pryor. Directed by John Badham, the movi...
Starring: Vanessa L. Williams•Kevin Spacey•Roger E. Mosley
Car Wash (1976)
Car Wash is a 1976 American comedy film released by Universal Pictures. Directed by Michael Schultz from a screenplay by Joel Schumacher, the film stars Franklyn Ajaye, Bill Duke, George Carlin, Irwin Corey, Ivan Dixon, Antonio Fargas, Jack Kehoe, Clarence Muse, Lorraine Gary, The Pointer Sisters, Richard Pryor, and Garrett Morris. Originally conce...
Starring: Shelley Winters•Kevin Spacey•Sidney Poitier•Antonio Fargas•Sid Caesar•Patrick McGoohan
Silver Streak (1976)
Silver Streak is a 1976 American buddy comedy thriller film about a murder on a Los Angeles-to-Chicago train journey. It was directed by Arthur Hiller and stars Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor, with Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty, Clifton James, Ray Walston, Scatman Crothers, and Richard Kiel in supporting roles. The film score is by H...
Starring: Arlene Golonka•Kevin Spacey•Danny Aiello•Christopher Jones•Ronny Cox•Max Julien
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Uptown Saturday Night is a 1974 American action comedy crime film written by Richard Wesley and directed by and starring Sidney Poitier, with Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte co-starring. Cosby and Poitier teamed up again for Let's Do It Again (1975) and A Piece of the Action (1977). Although Cosby's and Poitier's characters have different names in e...
Starring: Hal Holbrook•Kevin Spacey•Dana Carvey
Hit! (1973)
Hit! is a 1973 action film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor. It is about a federal agent trying to destroy a drug zone after his daughter dies from a heroin overdose.
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Roger E. Mosley•Jill Clayburgh
The Mack (1973)
The Mack is a 1973 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed by California native Michael Campus, starring Max Julien and Richard Pryor. The film also stars Oscar-nominee Juanita Moore and Tony-nominated actor Dick Anthony Williams. Filmed in Oakland, California the movie follows the rise and fall of Goldie, on whose return from a five-year...
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Billy Dee Williams•Zalman King
Some Call It Loving (1973)
Some Call It Loving, also known as Sleeping Beauty is a 1973 romantic mystery erotic drama film written, produced, and directed by James B. Harris and starring Zalman King, Carol White, Tisa Farrow, and Richard Pryor. It is based on a short story by John Collier.
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Al Goldstein•Diana Ross
Dynamite Chicken (1972)
Dynamite Chicken is a 1971 American comedy film. Described in its opening credits as "an electronic magazine of American pop culture," it presents a series of interviews, stand-up comedy, countercultural sketches, documentary segments, and agitprop relating to the peace movement, based around a stream of consciousness free form format.
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Gwen Welles
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Lady Sings the Blues is a 1972 American biographical drama film directed by Sidney J. Furie about jazz singer Billie Holiday, loosely based on her 1956 autobiography which, in turn, took its title from Holiday's song. It was produced by Motown Productions for Paramount Pictures. Diana Ross, in her feature film debut, portrayed Holiday, alongside a ...
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Roger E. Mosley•Tisa Farrow
You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat (1971)
You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat is a 1971 comedy-drama film directed by Peter Locke.
Starring: Kevin Spacey•Clifton James
Wild in the Streets (1968)
Wild in the Streets is a 1968 American comedy-drama film directed by Barry Shear and starring Christopher Jones, Hal Holbrook, and Shelley Winters. Based on the short story "The Day It All Happened, Baby!" by Robert Thom, it was distributed by American International Pictures. The film, described as both "ludicrous" and "cautionary", was nominated f...
Starring: Franklyn Ajaye•Kevin Spacey•George Carlin•Lorraine Gary
The Busy Body (1967)
The Busy Body is a 1967 American comedy film directed and produced by William Castle and based on Donald E. Westlake's novel of the same name. It was Richard Pryor's film debut.
Starring: Bill Duke•Sid Caesar•Arlene Golonka•Kevin Spacey