Richard pryor short biography
Example short biography.
Richard Pryor
| Richard Pryor | |
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Richard Pryor, February 1986 | |
| Birth name | Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor |
| Born | (1940-12-01)December 1, 1940 Peoria, Illinois, United States |
| Died | December 10, 2005(2005-12-10) (aged 65) Encino, California, United States |
| Medium | Stand-up, movie, television |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 1958–1999 |
| Genres | Satire, Observational comedy, Black comedy, Improvisational comedy, Character comedy |
| Subject(s) | Racism, Race relations, American politics, African-American culture, Human sexuality, Self-deprecation, Everyday life, Recreational drug use |
| Influences | Lenny Bruce,[1]Jack Benny, Jonathan Winters, Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, Redd Foxx, Paul Mooney |
| Influenced | George Carlin,[2]Martin Lawrence,[3]George Lopez,[4]Denis Leary, Margaret Cho,[5]Eddie Izzard, Dave Chappelle,[6]Chris Rock,[7]Eddie Murphy,[7]Whoopi Goldberg,[8]
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