Acting

Michael Colyar

Born February 9, 1957 · Chicago, Illinois, USA (age 69)

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 o…

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The Princess and the Frog

The Princess and the Frog · 2009

The Princess and the Frog

MovieAnimationRomance

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.

Norbit

A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Hot Shots! Part Deux · 1993

Hot Shots! Part Deux

MovieActionComedy

Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.

Poetic Justice

Poetic Justice · 1993

MovieDramaRomance

Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the pain of her loss. Unable to get to Oakland to attend a convention because of her broken-down car, Justice gets a lift with her friend, Iesha, and Iesha's postal worker boyfriend, Chicago. Along for the ride is Chicago's co-worker, Lucky, to whom Justice grows close after some initial problems. But is she ready to open her heart again?

Johnny Be Good

Johnny Be Good · 1988

It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?

What's Love Got to Do with It

What's Love Got to Do with It · 1993

What's Love Got to Do with It

MovieDramaMusic

Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike.

House Party 3

House Party 3 · 1994

Hip Hop duo Kid & Play return in the second follow-up to their 1990 screen debut House Party. Kid (Christopher "Kid" Reid) is taking the plunge and marrying his girlfriend Veda (Angela Means), while his friend Play (Christopher Martin) is dipping his toes into the music business, managing a roughneck female rap act called Sex as a Weapon. Play books the ladies for a concert with heavy-hitting pr

Hollywood Shuffle

Hollywood Shuffle · 1987

Hollywood Shuffle

Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, and must reconcile his career goals with his desire to remain a positive role model for his little brother.

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The Princess and the Frog

The Princess and the Frog · 2009

The Princess and the Frog

MovieAnimationRomance

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.

Buford (voice)

Norbit

A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.

Morris the Barber

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Hot Shots! Part Deux · 1993

Hot Shots! Part Deux

MovieActionComedy

Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.

Williams

Poetic Justice

Poetic Justice · 1993

MovieDramaRomance

Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the pain of her loss. Unable to get to Oakland to attend a convention because of her broken-down car, Justice gets a lift with her friend, Iesha, and Iesha's postal worker boyfriend, Chicago. Along for the ride is Chicago's co-worker, Lucky, to whom Justice grows close after some initial problems. But is she ready to open her heart again?

Panhandler

Johnny Be Good

Johnny Be Good · 1988

It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?

Recruiter Mike

What's Love Got to Do with It

What's Love Got to Do with It · 1993

What's Love Got to Do with It

MovieDramaMusic

Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike.

Apollo Announcer

House Party 3

House Party 3 · 1994

Hip Hop duo Kid & Play return in the second follow-up to their 1990 screen debut House Party. Kid (Christopher "Kid" Reid) is taking the plunge and marrying his girlfriend Veda (Angela Means), while his friend Play (Christopher Martin) is dipping his toes into the music business, managing a roughneck female rap act called Sex as a Weapon. Play books the ladies for a concert with heavy-hitting pr

Showboat

Hollywood Shuffle

Hollywood Shuffle · 1987

Hollywood Shuffle

Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, and must reconcile his career goals with his desire to remain a positive role model for his little brother.

Body Guard #3

The Longshots

The Longshots · 2008

MovieDramaFamily

The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.

Ennis

Who Made the Potatoe Salad?

Who Made the Potatoe Salad? · 2006

Who Made the Potatoe Salad?

MovieComedyRomance

An urban romantic comedy about a young San Diego policeman who travels to Los Angeles with his fiance to meet her dysfunctional family and announce their engagement.

Old Man #1 in Park

Outlaw Johnny Black

Outlaw Johnny Black · 2023

Outlaw Johnny Black

MovieActionComedy

Hell bent on avenging the death of his father, Johnny Black vows to gun down Brett Clayton and becomes a wanted man in the process while posing as a preacher in a small mining town that's been taken over by a notorious Land Baron.

Barker

Zapped Again!

Zapped Again! · 1990

A new kid moves into school, making enemies with the affluent societies and joining the beleaguered Science Club. But when an old potion is discovered to confer telekinetic power he gets the chance to get his own back, as well as having a bit of fun on the side.

Sheldon

A Get2Gether

A Get2Gether · 2005

Hoping to score some time with his girlfriend, a young man throws a get together. Instead, everyone in the ‘hood turns up for an epic house party.

Dad

Boosters LA

Boosters LA · 2022

James and his best friend Lisa struggle to stay one step ahead of the law while heading their boosting operation through the clothing racks of LA.

X Boss

It's a Date

It's a Date · 2018

MovieRomanceDrama

The owner of a dating service falls in love with one of her clients, leaving her to choose between remaining professional or following her heart.

Everett Reese

Necessity

Necessity · 1988

MovieDramaCrime

A model discovers her wealthy husband is a dangerous drug dealer. She leaves him, taking along two million dollars of his money, but what she really wants is custody of their daughter. She hatches a plan to abduct her daughter and take her to safety. Meanwhile, her husband dispatches someone to find and eliminate her.

Photographer

Roscoe's House of Chicken n Waffles

Roscoe's House of Chicken n Waffles · 2004

Roscoe's House of Chicken n Waffles

The film starts in 1978, In NYC the numbers racket is going out of business because the state is starting a lottery. Down on his luck, numbers runner Clyde Coltrane (Glenn Plummer) gets a call from LA. His friend Roscoe (Anthony Johnson) is in trouble. Clyde joins Roscoe who owns a restaurant and the mafia some money. Clyde plans to make the restaurant profitable and bail out Roscoe, however the only thing they have is chicken and flour

Man Getting Out of Car(uncredited)

Too Many Christmases

Too Many Christmases · 2024

Too Many Christmases

MovieFamilyRomance

Jerome and Kayla are excited to spend their first Christmas together as husband and wife. The only problem is that they’ve never celebrated Christmas without their respective families. This Christmas, instead of deciding on one event, they agree to attend two at the same time, to appease their families.

Myron

So Fly Christmas

So Fly Christmas · 2023

So Fly Christmas

MovieRomanceComedy

After being stood up at the altar on Christmas Eve, Wyvetta loses her love on her favorite holiday. To show solidarity, Wyvetta's best friend, Dione suggests that the two of them renounce love. Things become complicated when Dione falls for a mild-mannered record store owner and tries to keep it under wraps.

Myron

Blown Away

Blown Away · 1990

MovieCrimeAction

A mother must wage war against her gangster husband who took their child away from her.

Photographer

A Luv Tale

A Luv Tale · 1999

MovieRomanceDrama

Two women finally find the love and respect they deserve after both of their long-term, loveless relationships fail and they meet each other.

George Winston

Rent Due

Rent Due · 2019

Two down on their luck cousins are forced to come up with a plan to make some cold hard cash when they lose the rent money after a night of partying with two strippers.

Landlord Pete

The Closer

The Closer · 1990

The story follows a skilled negotiator, an expert at closing difficult deals, who becomes entangled in a complex web of deception, manipulation, and power while trying to maintain his position in an environment where ambition and betrayal are commonplace. A film about themes such as morality in business, the pressure of success, and how far someone is willing to compromise their principles for money and control.

Hustler

Chocolate Sundaes Presents: Live on Sunset Strip!: Vol. 2

Chocolate Sundaes Presents: Live on Sunset Strip!: Vol. 2 · 2011

Chocolate Sundaes Presents: Live on Sunset Strip!: Vol. 2

black-ish

black-ish · 2014

A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.

Reverend Hubbard

The Bernie Mac Show

The Bernie Mac Show · 2001

The Bernie Mac Show

The Bernie Mac Show is an American sitcom that aired on Fox for five seasons from November 14, 2001 to April 14, 2006. The series featured comic actor Bernie Mac and his wife Wanda raising his sister's three kids: Jordan, Bryana, and Vanessa.

Man

Martin

SeriesComedyDrama

Sassy sitcom centering on radio and television personality Martin Payne. Series focuses on his romantic relationship with girlfriend Gina, her best friend Pam and escapades with best friends Tommy and Cole.

Mr. Whitaker

The Parkers

The Parkers · 1999

Spunky daughter Kim is mortified when her bigger-than-life mom, Nikki, decides to go back to school at the same junior college she attends.

The Hughleys

The Hughleys · 1998

SeriesComedyFamily

The Hughleys is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 22, 1998 to April 28, 2000 and on the UPN network from September 11, 2000 to May 20, 2002. It starred comedian D. L. Hughley as the main character, Darryl Hughley, and Elise Neal as Yvonne, his hard-working wife, who move their family from the inner city to suburban Los Angeles.

Booker T.

The John Larroquette Show

The John Larroquette Show · 1993

The John Larroquette Show

The John Larroquette Show is an American television sitcom .The show was a vehicle for John Larroquette following his run as Dan Fielding on Night Court. The series takes place in a seedy bus terminal in St. Louis, Missouri and originally focused on the somewhat broken people who worked the night shift, and in particular, the lead character's battle with alcoholism.

Lou Friedman

One Night Stand

One Night Stand · 1989

One Night Stand

A series of stand-up comedy specials.

Barbershop

Barbershop · 2005

SeriesComedyDrama

Calvin Palmer is the owner of a barbershop on the Southside of Chicago. Reluctantly inheriting the neighborhood establishment and popular hangout from his father, he juggles his responsibilities to his clients, his family, and his community as a cast of unique characters regularly bring their hopes, dreams and problems with them into the shop.

Leonard

Homeboys in Outer Space

Homeboys in Outer Space · 1996

Homeboys in Outer Space

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyComedy

Homeboys in Outer Space is an American science fiction/fantasy sitcom that aired on UPN from 1996 to 1997. The series stars comedian Flex and Darryl Bell.

Milky Ray