Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005)

American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer.

* December 1, 1940 Peoria, Illinois
 as Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III
 December 10, 2005 Los Angeles, California



Books on Richard Pryor

John A. Williams and Dennis A. Williams If I Stop, I'll Die John A. Williams and Dennis A. Williams
If I Stop, I'll Die, The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor
2006

Jim Haskins
Richard Pryor, A Man and His Madness
New York, 1984

Books with substantial mentioning of Richard Pryor

Virginia Forte (ed.)
The 100 most influential entertainers of stage and screen
New York, NY, 2015

Ronald L. Smith
Who's Who in Comedy, Comedians, Comics and Clowns From Vaudeville to Today's Stand-ups
New York, Oxford, 1992

Books with an entry on Richard Pryor

Hillary White, editor, Jim Craddock and Michael J. Tyrkus, contributing editors Magill's Cinema Annual 2006 Hillary White, editor, Jim Craddock and Michael J. Tyrkus, contributing editors
Magill's Cinema Annual 2006, 25th Edition. A Survey of the Films of 2005
Detroit, New York etc., 2006

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Joe Franklin Encyclopedia of Comedians Joe Franklin
Encyclopedia of Comedians
Secaucus, N.J., 1979