Michael Colyar
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 9, 1957 (age 69)
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
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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Filmography
Too Many Christmases
Movie · as Myron
Outlaw Johnny Black
Movie · as Barker
So Fly Christmas
Movie · as Myron
Boosters LA
Movie · as X Boss
The Shutdown
Movie · as Pops
Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Holiday Heartbreak
Movie · as Mike McCoy
Rent Due
Movie · as Landlord Pete
It's a Date
Movie · as Everett Reese
This Is Love
Movie · as Self
Patterns of Attraction
Movie · as Uncle Benny
black-ish
TV · as Reverend Hubbard · 1 ep
A Christmas Wedding
Movie · as Grady
Chocolate Sundaes Presents: Live on Sunset Strip!: Vol. 2
Movie
Dark Girls
Movie · as Self
Church: The Movie
Movie · as Brother Johnson
The Princess and the Frog
Movie · as Buford (voice)
Comedy.tv
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Longshots
Movie · as Ennis
Norbit
Movie · as Morris the Barber
Uncle P
Movie · as Bus Driver
Who Made the Potatoe Salad?
Movie · as Old Man #1 in Park
A Get2Gether
Movie · as Dad
The Beat
Movie · as Chi-Barnes
Clean Up Men
Movie · as Uncle Scott
Barbershop
TV · as Leonard · 4 eps
If Love Hadn't Left Me Lonely
Movie · as Andre
Out on Parole
Movie · as Ward
Roscoe's House of Chicken n Waffles
Movie · as Man Getting Out of Car(uncredited)
Shaq's All Star Comedy Roast 2: Emmitt Smith
Movie · as Self
Family Reunion: The Movie
Movie
Platinum Comedy Series: Michael Colyar - The Michael Colyar Project
Movie · as Himself
Platinum Comedy Series: Roasting Shaquille O'Neal
Movie · as Self
The Bernie Mac Show
TV · as Man · 1 ep
A Luv Tale
Movie · as George Winston
The Parkers
TV
High Freakquency
Movie
The Hughleys
TV · as Booker T. · 1 ep
Homeboys in Outer Space
TV · as Milky Ray · 1 ep
House Party 3
Movie · as Showboat
Jugular Wine: A Vampire Odyssey
Movie · as Bouncer
Poetic Justice
Movie · as Panhandler
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Movie · as Williams
What's Love Got to Do with It
Movie · as Apollo Announcer
The John Larroquette Show
TV · as Lou Friedman · 1 ep
Martin
TV · as Mr. Whitaker · 4 eps
Zapped Again!
Movie · as Sheldon
The Closer
Movie · as Hustler
One Night Stand
TV · 1 ep
Johnny Be Good
Movie · as Recruiter Mike
Necessity
Movie · as Photographer
Hollywood Shuffle
Movie · as Body Guard #3