Like gills on a fish, being on that stage was what mattered to Richard," Jennifer Pryor said, who remarried Richard in 2001. She remained by his side until his death on Dec. 10, 2005, in Los Angeles.

In his memoir,Room to Dream, Lynch wrote of the comedian, “Richard Pryor is someone else I saw on a talk show and kind of fell in love with. He’d been through a lot in his life but he had a ...

Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones and Richard Pryor star in the 1976 comedy "Bingo Long and the Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings," part of the Music Box Theatre's "Play Ball!" series this March.

Pryor calls himself Jo Jo Dancer in the movie and relocates the story to Ohio (despite filming in Peoria), but by 1986, the contours of his history were well known.