Richard Pryor is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 1 december 1940 at Peoria (USA)
Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor participated to
54 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
6 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Scriptwriter
, 1h29
Directed by Mel BrooksOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Action,
WesternThemes Films about filmsActors Cleavon Little,
Gene Wilder,
Slim Pickens,
Harvey Korman,
Madeline Kahn,
Mel BrooksRating76%
In the American Old West of 1874, construction on a new railroad led by Lyle (Burton Gilliam) runs into quicksand. The route has to be changed, which will require it to go through Rock Ridge, a frontier town where everyone has the last name of "Johnson" (including a "Howard Johnson," a "Dr. Samuel Johnson," a "Van Johnson" and an "Olson N. Johnson"). The conniving State Attorney General Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) – who constantly has to correct people who call him "Hedy", the name of a movie star, instead of "Hedley" – wants to buy the land along the new railroad route cheaply by driving out the townspeople. He sends a gang of thugs, led by his flunky assistant Taggart (Slim Pickens), to scare them away, prompting the townsfolk to demand that Governor William J. Le Petomane (Mel Brooks) appoint a new sheriff. Lamarr persuades the dim-witted Le Petomane to select Bart (Cleavon Little), a black railroad worker who was about to be hanged, as he believes a black lawman will so offend the townspeople that they will either abandon Rock Ridge or lynch the new sheriff, with either result paving the way for him to take over the town.Actor
, 1h51
Directed by Sidney PoitierOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
ActionThemes Prison films,
Buddy filmsActors Gene Wilder,
JoBeth Williams,
Richard Pryor,
Georg Stanford Brown,
Barry Corbin,
Craig T. NelsonRoles Harry Monroe
Rating66%
Writer Skip Donahue and actor Harry Monroe are fired from their jobs in New York, and leave for Hollywood. Along the way, they take odd jobs to make ends meet. During one such job in Arizona, Skip and Harry perform a song and dance routine dressed as woodpeckers as part of a promotion for a bank. While the duo is taking a break, two men steal the costumes and rob the bank. Harry and Skip are arrested, whisked through a speedy trial and handed 125-year jail sentences. Their court-appointed lawyer, Len Garber, advises them to wait until he can appeal their case., 2h
Directed by Richard LesterOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Comedy,
Fantasy,
Action,
AdventureThemes Films about children,
Films about computing,
Superman films,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Superhero films,
Super-héros inspiré de comics,
Films about extraterrestrial lifeActors Christopher Reeve,
Richard Pryor,
Jackie Cooper,
Marc McClure,
Annette O'Toole,
Annie RossRoles August "Gus" Gorman
Rating50%
Gus Gorman, a chronically unemployed loser, discovers he has a talent for computer programming and gets a job at the Metropolis-based conglomerate Webscoe. Gus, dissatisfied with his pay, embezzles from his employer using a technique known as salami slicing, which brings Gus to the attention of CEO Ross Webster. Webster is intrigued by the computer's potential to aid him in his schemes to rule the world financially. Joined by his sister Vera and his "psychic nutritionist," Lorelei Ambrosia, Webster blackmails Gus into helping him., 1h54
Directed by Arthur HillerOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Comedy,
Action,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Transport films,
Rail transport films,
Buddy films,
Children's filmsActors Gene Wilder,
Jill Clayburgh,
Patrick McGoohan,
Richard Pryor,
Ned Beatty,
Richard KielRoles Grover Muldoon
Rating68%
Book editor George Caldwell (Wilder) travels from Los Angeles to Chicago for his sister's wedding aboard a train called the Silver Streak. On board, George meets a vitamin salesman named Bob Sweet (Beatty) and a woman named Hilly Burns (Clayburgh). Hilly works for Professor Schreiner, a well-known art historian who is on a publicity tour for his new book about Rembrandt., 1h42
Directed by Richard DonnerOrigin USAGenres ComedyThemes Films about children,
Jeu,
Films about toys,
Buddy filmsActors Jackie Gleason,
Richard Pryor,
Ned Beatty,
Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Scott Schwartz,
Teresa GanzelRoles Jack Brown
Rating58%
Jack Brown (Pryor) is an unemployed newspaper reporter in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in danger of losing his house to the bank. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to get a job working for the local paper, the Bugle, he becomes so desperate that he ends up taking a job as a "cleaning lady" for wealthy U.S. Bates (Gleason), who owns the paper and many other businesses. Brown is humiliated as he clumsily attempts to serve food at a luncheon. He is fired, but lands a part-time job in a department store owned by Bates., 1h37
Directed by Walter HillOrigin USAGenres ComedyThemes Sports films,
Baseball filmsActors John Candy,
Richard Pryor,
Lonette McKee,
Stephen Collins,
Rick Moranis,
David WhiteRoles Montgomery Brewster
Rating65%
Monty Brewster is a Minor League Baseball pitcher with the Hackensack Bulls. He and his best friend Spike Nolan, the catcher for the Bulls, are arrested after a post-game bar fight and cannot afford bail. A stranger offers bail, if they will come to New York City with him. At the Manhattan law office of Granville & Baxter, Brewster is told that his recently deceased great-uncle Rupert Horn, whom he has never met, has left him his entire fortune but with several conditions.