Michael Colyar
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).
Poetic Justice
(Panhandler)
Hot Shots! Part Deux
(Williams)
Norbit
(Morris the Barber)
House Party 3
(Showboat)
It's a Date
(Everett Reese)
Patterns of Attraction
(Uncle Benny)
Johnny Be Good
(Recruiter Mike)
A Get2Gether
(Dad)
Chocolate Sundaes Presents: Live on Sunset Strip!: Vol. 2
Boosters LA
(X Boss)
Uncle P
(Bus Driver)
High Freakquency
Zapped Again!
(Sheldon)
The Closer
(Hustler)
Outlaw Johnny Black
(Barker)
The Shutdown
(Pops)
Necessity
(Photographer)
The Longshots
(Ennis)
The Princess and the Frog
(Buford (voice))
The Beat
(Chi-Barnes)
Jugular Wine: A Vampire Odyssey
(Bouncer)
A Christmas Wedding
(Grady)
Hollywood Shuffle
(Body Guard #3)
This Is Love
(Self)
If Love Hadn't Left Me Lonely
(Andre)
Platinum Comedy Series: Michael Colyar - The Michael Colyar Project
(Himself)
Shaq's All Star Comedy Roast 2: Emmitt Smith
(Self)
Out on Parole
(Ward)
Rent Due
(Landlord Pete)
Platinum Comedy Series: Roasting Shaquille O'Neal
(Self)
Church: The Movie
(Brother Johnson)
Holiday Heartbreak
(Mike McCoy)
A Luv Tale
(George Winston)
What's Love Got to Do with It
(Apollo Announcer)
Too Many Christmases
(Myron)
Clean Up Men
(Uncle Scott)
Roscoe's House of Chicken n Waffles
(Man Getting Out of Car(uncredited))
Who Made the Potatoe Salad?
(Old Man #1 in Park)
So Fly Christmas
(Myron)
Family Reunion: The Movie
Dark Girls
(Self)
Blown Away
(Photographer)
Martin
(Mr. Whitaker)
The Parkers
Barbershop
(Leonard)
One Night Stand
Homeboys in Outer Space
(Milky Ray)
Comedy.tv
(Self)
Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy
(Self)
The John Larroquette Show
(Lou Friedman)
black-ish
(Reverend Hubbard)
The Bernie Mac Show
(Man)
The Hughleys
(Booker T.)