Michael Colyar
Born: 1957-02-09 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2024
- Too Many Christmases as Myron
2023
- Outlaw Johnny Black as Barker
- So Fly Christmas as Myron
2022
- Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy as Self
- Boosters LA as X Boss
- The Shutdown as Pops
2020
- Holiday Heartbreak as Mike McCoy
2019
- Rent Due as Landlord Pete
2018
- It's a Date as Everett Reese
- This Is Love as Self
2014
- black-ish as Reverend Hubbard
- Patterns of Attraction as Uncle Benny
2013
- A Christmas Wedding as Grady
2010
- Church: The Movie as Brother Johnson
2009
- The Princess and the Frog as Buford (voice)
- Comedy.tv as Self
2008
- The Longshots as Ennis
2006
- Who Made the Potatoe Salad? as Old Man #1 in Park
2005
- Barbershop as Leonard
- A Get2Gether as Dad
- The Beat as Chi-Barnes
- Clean Up Men as Uncle Scott
2004
- Roscoe's House of Chicken n Waffles as Man Getting Out of Car(uncredited)
- If Love Hadn't Left Me Lonely as Andre
- Out on Parole as Ward
2002
2001
- The Bernie Mac Show as Man
1999
- The Parkers
- A Luv Tale as George Winston
1998
- The Hughleys as Booker T.
- High Freakquency
1996
- Homeboys in Outer Space as Milky Ray
1994
- House Party 3 as Showboat
- Jugular Wine: A Vampire Odyssey as Bouncer
1993
- The John Larroquette Show as Lou Friedman
- Hot Shots! Part Deux as Williams
- Poetic Justice as Panhandler
- What's Love Got to Do with It as Apollo Announcer
1992
- Martin as Mr. Whitaker
1990
- Zapped Again! as Sheldon
- Blown Away as Photographer
- The Closer as Hustler
1989
1988
- Johnny Be Good as Recruiter Mike
- Necessity as Photographer
1987
- Hollywood Shuffle as Body Guard #3