# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-pryor
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:37:22.626Z

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name: "Richard Pryor"
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description: "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 of all time. 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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deathDate: "2005-12-10"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump