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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, film director, social critic, satirist, writer, and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities, and profanity, as well as racial epithets. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians of all time: receiving praise from notable comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Newhart, and Bill Cosby. His body of work includes the concert movies and recordings starting in the 70s and spanning three decades. He also starred in numerous films as an actor, in both comedic and dramatic roles. He collaborated on many projects with actor Gene Wilder and actor/comedian/writer Paul Mooney. Pryor won an Emmy Award (1973), and five Grammy Awards (1974, 1975, 1976, 1981, and 1982). In 1974, he also won two American Academy of Humor awards and the Writers Guild of America Award. The first ever Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was presented to him in 1998. Pryor is listed at Number 1 on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians.
Richard Pryor
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for Lamar Davis in Grand Theft Auto V (1960)
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Set in the 1960s, during a freezing Christmas night in the snow-covered town of Ludendorff, North Yankton, three criminals — Michael De Santa, Trevor Philips, and their partner Brad — carry out a dangerous bank robbery. The heist goes violently wrong. During the escape, both Brad and Michael are shot. Brad is left behind and presumed dead, while Michael secretly survives and vanishes from the criminal world. Years later in 1960s Los Santos, Michael lives under a false identity, far removed from his past life of crime. He resides in a luxury villa, drives expensive cars, and appears successful, yet his family life is slowly falling apart. Trapped in a hollow existence, Michael tries to stay out of the underworld — until he crosses paths with a young street hustler and car thief. Their meeting pulls Michael back into crime, and together they carry out a bold jewelry store robbery. The robbery makes the news and reaches the outskirts of Los Santos, where Michael’s former partner Trevor Philips lives in poverty and chaos. Now a psychotic drug dealer and arms trafficker running Trevor Philips Enterprises, Trevor survives on violence, paranoia, and pure madness. When he realizes that Michael is still alive, Trevor returns to Los Santos, dragging the past back with him and setting off a chain of betrayal, violence, and destruction that defines the brutal criminal underworld of the 1960s.
