About
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
black-ishSeries • 2014
The Bernie Mac ShowSeries • 2001
MartinSeries • 1992
The HughleysSeries • 1998
The John Larroquette ShowSeries • 1993
The ParkersSeries • 1999
The Princess and the FrogMovie • 2009
NorbitMovie • 2007
Hot Shots! Part DeuxMovie • 1993
One Night StandSeries • 1989
What's Love Got to Do with ItMovie • 1993
Johnny Be GoodMovie • 1988
Poetic JusticeMovie • 1993
Zapped Again!Movie • 1990
The LongshotsMovie • 2008
House Party 3Movie • 1994
Hollywood ShuffleMovie • 1987
Outlaw Johnny BlackMovie • 2023