Michael Colyar
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 9, 1957
- Birthplace
- 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
as Myron
So Fly Christmas 2023
as Myron
Outlaw Johnny Black 2023
as Barker
The Shutdown 2022
as Pops
Boosters LA 2022
as X Boss
Holiday Heartbreak 2020
as Mike McCoy, Producer
Rent Due 2019
as Landlord Pete
This Is Love 2018
as Self
It's a Date 2018
as Everett Reese
Patterns of Attraction 2014
as Uncle Benny
A Christmas Wedding 2013
as Grady
Dark Girls 2011
as Self
Chocolate Sundaes Presents: Live on Sunset Strip!: Vol. 2 2011
Actor
Church: The Movie 2010
as Brother Johnson
The Princess and the Frog 2009
as Buford (voice)
The Longshots 2008
as Ennis
Uncle P 2007
as Bus Driver
Norbit 2007
as Morris the Barber
Who Made the Potatoe Salad? 2006
as Old Man #1 in Park
Clean Up Men 2005
as Uncle Scott
A Get2Gether 2005
as Dad
The Beat 2005
as Chi-Barnes
Roscoe's House of Chicken n Waffles 2004
as Man Getting Out of Car(uncredited)
Out on Parole 2004
as Ward
If Love Hadn't Left Me Lonely 2004
as Andre
Family Reunion: The Movie 2003
Actor
Shaq's All Star Comedy Roast 2: Emmitt Smith 2003
as Self
Platinum Comedy Series: Michael Colyar - The Michael Colyar Project 2002
as Himself
Platinum Comedy Series: Roasting Shaquille O'Neal 2002
as Self
A Luv Tale 1999
as George Winston
High Freakquency 1998
Actor
House Party 3 1994
as Showboat
Jugular Wine: A Vampire Odyssey 1994
as Bouncer
Poetic Justice 1993
as Panhandler
What's Love Got to Do with It 1993
as Apollo Announcer
Hot Shots! Part Deux 1993
as Williams
Zapped Again! 1990
as Sheldon
The Closer 1990
as Hustler
Necessity 1988
as Photographer
Johnny Be Good 1988
as Recruiter Mike
Hollywood Shuffle 1987
as Body Guard #3
Credits from TMDB.