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Richard Pryor Wiki Biography

• Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was born in Peoria, Illinois, USA, on 1 December 1940, and died in Los Angeles, California, USA, on 10 December 2005. 
• He was an actor, comedian, satirist, journalist, and film producer. 
• Five Grammy Awards, two American Academy of Humour Awards, the Emmy Award, the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humour, and the Authors Guild of America Award were won by Richard Pryor. 
• In addition, as the all-time greatest stand-up comic, he topped the Comedy Central list. 
• Undoubtedly, all those prizes improved the net worth of Richard Pryor. 
• From 1963 to 1997, he was involved in the entertainment industry. 
• Acting and writing were the key sources of Richard Pryor’s net worth. 
• Its net worth, according to figures, was equivalent to $40 million. 
• This charismatic actor’s upbringing was far from normal or happy: Richard was brought up in a brothel run by his grandma. 
• “In a number of films, he created outstanding roles as an actor, including the blaxploitation film “The Mack” (1973) directed by Michael Campus, the sports comedy “The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings” (1976) directed by John Badham, comedy films “Which Way is Up? (1977) directed by Michael Schultz, “The Toy” (1982) directed by Richard Donner, “Brewster’s Millions” (1985) directed by Walter Hill, Arthur Hiller’s “See No Evil, Hear No Evil” (1989) and other films, all of which contributed substantial amounts to Richard Pryor’s net worth. 
• He has released about 20 albums and eight compilations as a comedian. 
• He debuted with “Richard Pryor” (1968), a live album that was released. 
• “He had to use power-operated vehicles to drive as a result of the multiple sclerosis Richard Pryor suffered from, but he nevertheless appeared in David Lynch’s film “Lost Highway” (1997). 
• He passed away after a heart attack in 2005 and was cremated. 
• Pryor’s private life was not normal, either. 
• He managed seven times to marry five women, and he fathered six children. 
• Patricia Price (1960-1961), Shelley Bonis (1967-1969), Deborah McGuire (1977-1978), Jennifer Lee (1981-1982, 2001- before his death), and Flynn Blaine (1986-1987, 1990-1991) were the wives of Richard Pryor. 
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Richard Pryor Trademarks

1. Frequently worked with Gene Wilder
2. Foul language that has been compared to raw sewage mixed with social insight that has been compared to Mark Twain.

Richard Pryor Quotes

• [observation, 1967] I never thought about not making it. But the ‘it’ had nothing to do with show business. The ‘it’ I’m trying to make is me.
• [During his tour of Kenya in 1979, Pryor sat in a in a hotel lobby] The only people you saw were black. At the hotel, on television, in stores, on the street, in the newspapers, at restaurants, running the government, on advertisements. Everywhere…You know what? There are no niggers here. … The people here, they still have their self-respect, their pride. [Describing legacy of trip that made him regret “ever having uttered the word ‘nigger’ on a stage or off it.”]
• Black people got to look at themselves honestly, the same as white people did. And the stuff I talked about helped them do that. They loved it. Probably some sort of relief to both races that they could finally be honest about their shit.
• The great comics all have a hole in their chest where their heart should be. Somebody yanked their heart out when they were just kids, and they’ve been spending their whole lives trying to fill that hole. Or kill the pain. I know that I did.
• [on experiencing racism] I was just on the Today (1952) show and they were telling me how wonderful I was and I walk out into the reality of America and I can’t get a cab.
• [At the 1977 Academy Awards] I’m here to explain why black people will never be nominated for anything. This show is going out to seventy-five million people – none of them black. We don’t even know how to vote. There’s 3,349 people in the voting thing and only two black people – Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte. We’re quitting. You’ll have to listen to Lawrence Welk.
• I met the President. We in trouble.
• [on the free-basing incident which set him on fire] When you are running down the street…. and you are on fire, people will get out of your way.
• Everyone carries around his own monsters.
• It’s been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.
• I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst. In other words, I had a life.
• I live in racist America and I’m uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can’t do much better than that.
• Comedy rules! Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise, and there are no rules in stand-up comedy, which I really like. You can do anything you want and you can say anything that comes to mind, just so long as it’s funny. If you ain’t funny then get the fuck off the stage, it’s that simple.
• [on his job as a boxing gym sparring partner]: I always had to fight the guys who looked like they just killed their parents.
• You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there’s something wrong.

Richard Pryor Important Facts

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• He is a second cousin, once removed, of rapper and actor Ludacris. Richard’s maternal great-grandparents, William A. Craig and Nancy, were also Ludacris’s maternal great-great-grandparents.
• He was invited to a private screening of Animal House (1978) by director ‘John Landis (I)’, who wanted Pryor’s opinion about the scene at the black roadhouse. Landis and the film’s backers were concerned that it would be offensive to black audiences. Pryor laughed out loud, and told them that it should definitely be kept in the movie.
• He was expelled from a Catholic grammar school in Peoria, Illinois, when the nuns found out his grandmother owned a string of brothels.
• At 16, he was expelled from Central High School for punching his science teacher.
• Suffered a mild heart attack in November 1977.
• He passed away only 9 days after his 65th birthday.
• Admitted that he did Superman III (1983) and The Toy (1982) purely for the money.
• Was originally to co-star with Gene Wilder in Hanky Panky (1982) but backed out. His part went to Gilda Radner.
• Appeared in Superman III (1983), the only film in the series in which Lex Luthor does not appear. However, he did eventually get to work with an on-screen Lex Luthor, by appearing in See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) with Kevin Spacey.
• One of his limo drivers was Freddy Soto, who later went became a stand-up comedian. He also died in 2005.
• In 1990, he suffered a massive heart attack and underwent triple bypass surgery.
• Eddie Murphy pointed to Pryor as his role model and inspiration to become a comedian himself.
• Though he made four films with Gene Wilder, the two comic actors were never as close as many thought, according to the Gene Wilder’s autobiography.
• Remarried two of his ex-wives.
• Former father-in-law Herbert Bonis managed Danny Kaye for 35 years.
• Suffered from multiple sclerosis from 1986 until his death in 2005.
• Chosen as #1 in Comedy Central’s 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time. (April 2004).
• Was originally considered for the role of Billy Ray Valentine on Trading Places (1983), before Eddie Murphy ultimately won the part.
• Pryor was originally slated to play Bart in Blazing Saddles (1974). Due to Pryor’s background and controversial stand-up routines, Mel Brooks couldn’t secure financing for the project. Brooks made Pryor a co-writer, and Cleavon Little played Bart.
• In 2002, Sheridan Road, on the south side of Peoria, was renamed Richard Pryor Place.
• Father of Rain Pryor.
• Claimed to have seen the film The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) 40 times. His future wife Jennifer Lee had a role in the film.
• Father, Buck Carter (aka LeRoy Pryor), was a bartender, boxer and WWII veteran, who died in 1968 when Richard was 28.
• Children: Renee, Richard Jr, Elizabeth, Rain, Stephen, Kelsey and Franklin (Mason Pryor).
• Mother, Gertude, died when Pryor was 27 years old.
• Reunited with fourth wife, Jennifer Lee. [2001]
• Served with U.S. army, 1958-1960.
• Awarded The First Annual Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize. [1999]
• Has admitted the fire that nearly killed him while free-basing cocaine in the early 1980s was in fact a suicide attempt. His management created the “accident” lie for the press in hopes of protecting him.

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