Michael Colyar
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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).
Known for
Credits
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
as Buford (voice)
Norbit (2007)
as Morris the Barber
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
as Williams
Dark Girls (2011)
as Self
Boosters LA (2022)
as X Boss
What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
as Apollo Announcer
Poetic Justice (1993)
as Panhandler
Johnny Be Good (1988)
as Recruiter Mike
Patterns of Attraction (2014)
as Uncle Benny
Platinum Comedy Series: Roasting Shaquille O'Neal (2002)
as Self
The Longshots (2008)
as Ennis
A Christmas Wedding (2013)
as Grady
So Fly Christmas (2023)
as Myron
Zapped Again! (1990)
as Sheldon
Too Many Christmases (2024)
as Myron
House Party 3 (1994)
as Showboat
It's a Date (2018)
as Everett Reese
Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
as Body Guard #3
Church: The Movie (2010)
as Brother Johnson
Outlaw Johnny Black (2023)
as Barker
Who Made the Potatoe Salad? (2006)
as Old Man #1 in Park
Family Reunion: The Movie (2003)
Actor
This Is Love (2018)
as Self
Uncle P (2007)
as Bus Driver
Rent Due (2019)
as Landlord Pete
Jugular Wine: A Vampire Odyssey (1994)
as Bouncer
Roscoe's House of Chicken n Waffles (2004)
as Man Getting Out of Car(uncredited)
If Love Hadn't Left Me Lonely (2004)
as Andre
A Luv Tale (1999)
as George Winston
Clean Up Men (2005)
as Uncle Scott
Necessity (1988)
as Photographer
Platinum Comedy Series: Michael Colyar - The Michael Colyar Project (2002)
as Himself
Chocolate Sundaes Presents: Live on Sunset Strip!: Vol. 2 (2011)
Actor
The Closer (1990)
as Hustler
Holiday Heartbreak (2020)
as Mike McCoy
The Shutdown (2022)
as Pops
Shaq's All Star Comedy Roast 2: Emmitt Smith (2003)
as Self
High Freakquency (1998)
Actor
The Beat (2005)
as Chi-Barnes
A Get2Gether (2005)
as Dad
Blown Away (1990)
as Photographer
Out on Parole (2004)
as Ward