Richard Pryor

Born

December 1, 1940

Died

December 10, 2005 (aged 65)

Known as

television actor, film actor, comedian, screenwriter, journalist, autobiographer

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Known for reaching a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, he is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential comedians ever. Pryor won a Primetime Emmy Award and five Grammy Awards. He received the first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 1998. He won the Writers Guild of America Award in 1974.

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