Is Richard Pryor still alive and how old is he?

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor Sr. was a stand-up comedian and actor from the United States. With his trenchant insights and storytelling approach, he reached a large audience and is widely recognised as one of the finest and most influential stand-up comedians of all time.

In 1974, he received the Writers Guild of America Award. He was ranked first on Comedy Central’s list of the greatest stand-up comedians of all time. Rolling Stone placed him first on its list of the 50 greatest stand-up comedians of all time in 2017.

Richard Pryor is not alive. Pryor died of a third heart attack in Los Angeles on December 10, 2005, just nine days after his 65th birthday. After his wife attempted to resuscitate him failed, he was brought to a nearby hospital. At 7:58 a.m. PST, he was pronounced dead. “At the end, there was a smile on his face,” his widow Jennifer was quoted as saying. His ashes were returned to his family after he was cremated.

In 2019, his widow scattered his ashes in the bay at Hana, Hawaii. Forensic pathologist Michael Hunter believes Pryor’s deadly heart attack was caused by coronary artery disease, which was caused in part by years of cigarette usage.

Pryor would be 82 years old if he were to be alive.