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Michael Colyar
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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), …
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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).
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Michael Colyar's Filmography
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Too Many Christmases
as Myron
So Fly Christmas
as Myron
Outlaw Johnny Black
as Barker
The Shutdown
as Pops
Boosters LA
as X Boss
Holiday Heartbreak
as Mike McCoy
Rent Due
as Landlord Pete
This Is Love
as Self
It's a Date
as Everett Reese
Patterns of Attraction
as Uncle Benny
A Christmas Wedding
as Grady
Dark Girls
as Self
Chocolate Sundaes Presents: Live on Sunset Strip!: Vol. 2
Church: The Movie
as Brother Johnson
The Princess and the Frog
as Buford (voice)
The Longshots
as Ennis
Uncle P
as Bus Driver
Norbit
as Morris the Barber
Who Made the Potatoe Salad?
as Old Man #1 in Park
Clean Up Men
as Uncle Scott
A Get2Gether
as Dad
The Beat
as Chi-Barnes
Roscoe's House of Chicken n Waffles
as Man Getting Out of Car(uncredited)
Out on Parole
as Ward
If Love Hadn't Left Me Lonely
as Andre
Family Reunion: The Movie
Shaq's All Star Comedy Roast 2: Emmitt Smith
as Self
Platinum Comedy Series: Michael Colyar - The Michael Colyar Project
as Himself
Platinum Comedy Series: Roasting Shaquille O'Neal
as Self
A Luv Tale
as George Winston
High Freakquency
House Party 3
as Showboat
Jugular Wine: A Vampire Odyssey
as Bouncer
Poetic Justice
as Panhandler
What's Love Got to Do with It
as Apollo Announcer
Hot Shots! Part Deux
as Williams
Zapped Again!
as Sheldon
The Closer
as Hustler
Blown Away
as Photographer
Necessity
as Photographer
Johnny Be Good
as Recruiter Mike
Hollywood Shuffle
as Body Guard #3