Happy Heavenly Birthday, Richard Pryor 🎂🎁🎉🎈🎊
On what would have been his 84th birthday. Born as Richard Franklin Lennox, Thomas Pryor was a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor.
He was best 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 was widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians of his era.
He was listed as number one on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him first on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.
Pryor's body of work includes concert films and recordings: "Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin" (1971), "That Nigger's Crazy" (1974), ". Is It Something I Said?" (1975), "Bicentennial Nigger" (1976), "Richard Pryor: Live in Concert" (1979), "Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip" (1982), and "Richard Pryor: Here and Now" (1983).As an actor, he starred mainly in comedies. His occasional roles in dramas included Paul Schrader''s "Blue Collar" (1978). He also appeared in dramas, action, and musical adventure fantasy films, like "Lady Sings the Blues" (1972), "The Wiz" (1978), and "Superman III" (1983).He collaborated on many projects with actor Gene Wilder, including the films "Silver Streak" (1976), "Stir Crazy" (1980), "See No Evil, Hear No Evil" (1989), and "Another You" (1991).On December 10, 2005,
Pryor suffered his third heart attack in Los Angeles, California. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:58 a.m. PST. He was 65.
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