Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor's impact on the craft of comedy and today's top comics is legendary and unrivaled. This program surveys the profound and enduring influence of one of the greatest American comics of all time.

Golden Globe-winning documentary about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the Watts neighborhood. 

Perhaps the most well-known of the four films to star the comedy gold pair of Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. Wally (Pryor) is blind; Dave (Wilder) is deaf. Both are 'witness' to a murder and both are accused.

The third Christopher Reeve-starring Superman movie sees the Man of Steel battle elements of himself as well as a computer genius (Richard Pryor).

An underemployed reporter (Richard Pryor) finds himself literally purchased as a toy for a rich spoiled brat in this '80s comedy. Co-stars Jack Gleeson and Ned Beatty.

Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in Paul Schrader's classic about three mistreated auto assembly line workers who attempt to rob a safe at union headquarters, but come across something far juicier.

In this episodic 1970s comedy a tight group of L.A. car wash employees attend to a host of strange and unusual customers, including Richard Pryor…

A scatty literary editor (Gene Wilder) on a rail trip from LA to Chicago becomes the prime suspect in a murder and enlists the help of a petty thief (Richard Pryor) when he's forced to go on the run from the police - and the killer - in this satirical comedy thriller.

In their fourth cinematic outing together, Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder star as a chronic liar and a con man whose deceptive ways get them into a very sticky situation involving a missing millionaire, his beautiful wife, a fearsome estate executive, and a serious case of mistaken identity.

Richard Pryor is a minor league baseball player who, after discovering he's the only living relative of an eccentric multi-millionaire, stands to inherit $300 million but only if he can spend $30 million in a single month without acquiring a single asset.

The comedy misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel, written by Neil Simon (The Odd Couple), featuring Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby and Maggie Smith.

Part live stand-up performance, part documentary, this is one of comedian legend Richard Pryor's later stand-up performances.

Richard Pryor/Gene Wilder comedy. Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in prison…

Motown production of The Wizard of Oz starring Diana Ross as Dorothy and Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow.