Acting
Michael Colyar
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).
Filmography
Too Many Christmases
Film · 2024
Outlaw Johnny Black
Film · 2023
So Fly Christmas
Film · 2023
Boosters LA
Film · 2022
The Shutdown
Film · 2022
Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy
Series · 2022
Holiday Heartbreak
Film · 2020
Rent Due
Film · 2019
It's a Date
Film · 2018
This Is Love
Film · 2018
Patterns of Attraction
Film · 2014
black-ish
Series · 2014
A Christmas Wedding
Film · 2013
Chocolate Sundaes Presents: Live on Sunset Strip!: Vol. 2
Film · 2011
Dark Girls
Film · 2011
Church: The Movie
Film · 2010
The Princess and the Frog
Film · 2009
Comedy.tv
Series · 2009
The Longshots
Film · 2008
Norbit
Film · 2007
Uncle P
Film · 2007
Who Made the Potatoe Salad?
Film · 2006
A Get2Gether
Film · 2005
The Beat
Film · 2005
Clean Up Men
Film · 2005
Barbershop
Series · 2005
If Love Hadn't Left Me Lonely
Film · 2004
Out on Parole
Film · 2004
Roscoe's House of Chicken n Waffles
Film · 2004
Shaq's All Star Comedy Roast 2: Emmitt Smith
Film · 2003
Family Reunion: The Movie
Film · 2003
Platinum Comedy Series: Michael Colyar - The Michael Colyar Project
Film · 2002
Platinum Comedy Series: Roasting Shaquille O'Neal
Film · 2002
The Bernie Mac Show
Series · 2001
A Luv Tale
Film · 1999
The Parkers
Series · 1999
High Freakquency
Film · 1998
The Hughleys
Series · 1998
Homeboys in Outer Space
Series · 1996
House Party 3
Film · 1994
Jugular Wine: A Vampire Odyssey
Film · 1994
Poetic Justice
Film · 1993
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Film · 1993
What's Love Got to Do with It
Film · 1993
The John Larroquette Show
Series · 1993
Martin
Series · 1992
Zapped Again!
Film · 1990
The Closer
Film · 1990
Blown Away
Film · 1990
One Night Stand
Series · 1989
Johnny Be Good
Film · 1988
Necessity
Film · 1988
Hollywood Shuffle
Film · 1987