Michael Colyar
Michael Colyar (Michael K. Colyar) – American actor, comedian, and author, born 9 February 1957 in Chicago, Illinois. Raised in the Robert Taylor Homes public housing project on Chicago's South Side. He gained national attention in 1990 by winning the $100,000 Grand Prize Comedy championship on Star Search (donating $50,000 to homeless charities in Los Angeles), then spent nine years performing on the Venice Beach boardwalk, where he was nicknamed "The King of Venice Beach" and later had his shoe prints and handprints embedded in cement by the city of Venice. His most notable film roles include Showboat in House Party 3 (1994), the Apollo Announcer in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), a part in Poetic Justice (1993), Williams in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), Morris the Barber in Norbit (2007), and Buford (voice) in The Princess and the Frog (2009, Disney). On television he is best known for Mr. Whitaker in Martin (1995–1997), Milky Ray in Homeboys in Outer Space (1996), Leonard in Barbershop (2005), Reverend Hubbard in black-ish (2015), and Willie Turner in The Rich and the Ruthless (2017–2021). He is also the author of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The White House, I Knocked on The Door and a Brother Answered (2012).
Fotos
Películas (41)
Too Many Christmases
2024 · Myron
So Fly Christmas
2023 · Myron
Outlaw Johnny Black
2023 · Barker
The Shutdown
2022 · Pops
Boosters LA
2022 · X Boss
Holiday Heartbreak
2020 · Mike McCoy, Producer
Rent Due
2019 · Landlord Pete
This Is Love
2018 · Self
It's a Date
2018 · Everett Reese
Patterns of Attraction
2014 · Uncle Benny
A Christmas Wedding
2013 · Grady
Dark Girls
2011 · Self
Chocolate Sundaes Presents: Live on Sunset Strip!: Vol. 2
2011
Church: The Movie
2010 · Brother Johnson
La princesa y el sapo
2009 · Buford (voice)
The Longshots
2008 · Ennis
Uncle P
2007 · Bus Driver
Norbit
2007 · Morris the Barber
Who Made the Potatoe Salad?
2006 · Old Man #1 in Park
Clean Up Men
2005 · Uncle Scott
A Get2Gether
2005 · Dad
The Beat
2005 · Chi-Barnes
Roscoe's House of Chicken n Waffles
2004 · Man Getting Out of Car(uncredited)
Out on Parole
2004 · Ward
If Love Hadn't Left Me Lonely
2004 · Andre
Shaq's All Star Comedy Roast 2: Emmitt Smith
2003 · Self
Family Reunion: The Movie
2003
Platinum Comedy Series: Michael Colyar - The Michael Colyar Project
2002 · Himself
Platinum Comedy Series: Roasting Shaquille O'Neal
2002 · Self
A Luv Tale
1999 · George Winston
High Freakquency
1998
House Party 3
1994 · Showboat
Jugular Wine: A Vampire Odyssey
1994 · Bouncer
Poetic Justice
1993 · Panhandler
What's Love Got to Do with It
1993 · Apollo Announcer
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993 · Williams
Zapped Again!
1990 · Sheldon
The Closer
1990 · Hustler
Necessity
1988 · Photographer
Johnny Be Good
1988 · Recruiter Mike
Hollywood Shuffle
1987 · Body Guard #3
Series (11)
Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy
2022 · Self
Black-ish
2014 · Reverend Hubbard
Comedy.tv
2009 · Self
Barbershop
2005 · Leonard
The Bernie Mac Show
2001 · Man
The Parkers
1999
The Hughleys
1998 · Booker T.
Homeboys in Outer Space
1996 · Milky Ray
The John Larroquette Show
1993 · Lou Friedman
Martin
1992 · Mr. Whitaker
One Night Stand
1989