Michael Colyar
Acting
1957-02-09 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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
2024 · Movie
So Fly Christmas
2023 · Movie
Outlaw Johnny Black
2023 · Movie
The Shutdown
2022 · Movie
Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy
2022 · Series
Boosters LA
2022 · Movie
Holiday Heartbreak
2020 · Movie
Rent Due
2019 · Movie
This Is Love
2018 · Movie
It's a Date
2018 · Movie
black-ish
2014 · Series
Patterns of Attraction
2014 · Movie
A Christmas Wedding
2013 · Movie
Dark Girls
2011 · Movie
Chocolate Sundaes Presents: Live on Sunset Strip!: Vol. 2
2011 · Movie
Church: The Movie
2010 · Movie
The Princess and the Frog
2009 · Movie
Comedy.tv
2009 · Series
The Longshots
2008 · Movie
Uncle P
2007 · Movie
Norbit
2007 · Movie
Who Made the Potatoe Salad?
2006 · Movie
Clean Up Men
2005 · Movie
A Get2Gether
2005 · Movie
The Beat
2005 · Movie
Barbershop
2005 · Series
Roscoe's House of Chicken n Waffles
2004 · Movie
Out on Parole
2004 · Movie
If Love Hadn't Left Me Lonely
2004 · Movie
Shaq's All Star Comedy Roast 2: Emmitt Smith
2003 · Movie
Family Reunion: The Movie
2003 · Movie
Platinum Comedy Series: Michael Colyar - The Michael Colyar Project
2002 · Movie
Platinum Comedy Series: Roasting Shaquille O'Neal
2002 · Movie
The Bernie Mac Show
2001 · Series
The Parkers
1999 · Series
A Luv Tale
1999 · Movie
The Hughleys
1998 · Series
High Freakquency
1998 · Movie
Homeboys in Outer Space
1996 · Series
House Party 3
1994 · Movie
Jugular Wine: A Vampire Odyssey
1994 · Movie
The John Larroquette Show
1993 · Series
Poetic Justice
1993 · Movie
What's Love Got to Do with It
1993 · Movie
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993 · Movie
Martin
1992 · Series
Zapped Again!
1990 · Movie
Blown Away
1990 · Movie
The Closer
1990 · Movie
One Night Stand
1989 · Series
Necessity
1988 · Movie
Johnny Be Good
1988 · Movie
Hollywood Shuffle
1987 · Movie