Richard Pryor — Actor (32)
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Adiós Amigo (1975) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Adiós Amigo
director: Fred Williamson actor: Fred Williamson / Richard Pryor …
Two incompetent Western outlaws engineer several failed crimes, including a botched stagecoach holdup. Fred Williamson, a tough-guy perennial in blaxploitation movies, does a rare comedy turn as a blundering patsy to Richard Pryor's slick con man.
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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
director: Richard Pryor actor: Richard Pryor / Debbie Allen …
other title: Jo Jo Dancer - Dein Leben ruft / Jo Jo Dancer …
Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in this state, he looks back on his life. Drifting off into memories of his troubled childhood, Jo Jo revisits his youth, recalling his eventual rise to fame and the decadence that followed. As he considers his existence, he must decide if he wants to go on living or not.
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Which Way Is Up? (1977) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Which Way Is Up?
director: Michael Schultz actor: Richard Pryor / Lonette McKee …
other title: Wie geht's aufwärts / Wie geht’s aufwärts?
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid spouse, Annie Mae. He heads for Los Angeles, where he falls for union organizer Vanetta. Annie Mae seeks solace from local preacher Lenox Thomas, who eventually impregnates her. When Leroy catches wind, he heads home for a showdown with Lenox.
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Silver Streak (1976) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Silver Streak
director: Arthur Hiller actor: Gene Wilder / Jill Clayburgh …
other title: Wagons-lits con omicidi / Chicago Ekspressen …
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
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Moving (1988) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Moving
director: Alan Metter actor: Richard Pryor / Beverly Todd …
other title: Un folle trasloco / Moving - Rückwärts ins Chaos …
Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
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In God We Tru$t (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB
In God We Tru$t
director: Marty Feldman actor: Marty Feldman / Peter Boyle …
other title: Frate Ambrogio / Vorherre til vejrs …
A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose, is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to Hollywood where he encounters a number of eccentric characters.
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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
director: John Badham actor: Billy Dee Williams / James Earl Jones …
other title: Bingo Long / Los Bingo Long, equipo de estrellas …
Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he forms his own lineup, recruiting big-hitting Leon Carter and Charlie Snow, who dreams of playing in the majors. Boycotted by black teams, Long's outfit play minor league white teams, earning more attention as entertainers than as players. However, their success wins them a chance to play again in the Negro League, this time as equals.
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Stir Crazy (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Stir Crazy
director: Sidney Poitier actor: Gene Wilder / Richard Pryor …
other title: Nessuno ci può fermare / To tosser bag tremmer …
New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.
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The Mack (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Mack
director: Michael Campus actor: Max Julien / Don Gordon …
other title: Mack - Il marciapiede della violenza / The Mack - Straßen zur Hölle …
A recently-released convict becomes the most powerful pimp in Oakland, but tragedy ensues when his activities draw the ire of two corrupt cops and the crime lord he once worked for.
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Some Call It Loving (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Some Call It Loving
director: James B. Harris actor: Zalman King / Carol White …
other title: Qualcuno lo chiama amore / Some Call It Loving (Sleeping Beauty) …
A jazz musician falls in love with a comatose woman at a carny sideshow and takes her to his mansion to join his cabinet of sexual curiosities.
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Hit! (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hit!
director: Sidney J. Furie actor: Billy Dee Williams / Richard Pryor …
other title: Der Hit - Der Kampf gegen die Drogen / Commando sur les stups …
A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring.