Keenen Ivory Wayans
Acting • Born 1958-06-08
Biography
Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans (born June 8, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, director and filmmaker. He is a member of the Wayans family of entertainers. Wayans first became the host and creator of the 1990–1994 Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color. He has produced, directed, and written several films, starting with Hollywood Shuffle, which he cowrote in 1987. His films have included him and one or more siblings in the cast. One of these films, Scary Movie (2000), which Wayans directed, was the highest-grossing movie directed by an African American until it was surpassed by Tim Story's Fantastic Four in 2005. From 1997 to 1998, he hosted the talk show The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show. In 2014, he was a judge for the eighth season of Last Comic Standing. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keenen Ivory Wayans, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
34 credits
Scary Movie
Movie • 2000
Slave
Star 80
Movie • 1983
Comic
A Low Down Dirty Shame
Movie • 1994
Shame
Hollywood Shuffle
Movie • 1987
Donald
The Glimmer Man
Movie • 1996
Jim Campbell
Most Wanted
Movie • 1997
Gunnery Sergeant James Dunn
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
Movie • 2009
Self
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Movie • 1988
Jack Spade
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
Movie • 2012
Self
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Movie • 2004
Det. Jim Campbell in The Glimmer Man (archive footage)
Eddie Murphy: One Night Only
Movie • 2012
Self
The Joe Piscopo Halloween Party
Movie • 1987
Ray the Boxer
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Movie • 1996
Mailman
Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 1
Movie • 1987
Dying Laughing
Movie • 2017
Self
The Black List: Volume One
Movie • 2008
Self
For Love and Honor
Movie • 1983
Pvt. Duke Johnson
Dance Flick
Movie • 2009
Mr. Stache
This Is Stand-Up
Movie • 2020
Self
Before They Were Kings: Vol. 2
Movie • 2019
Highway Honeys
Movie • 1982
Tattoo Calhoune
The Real Malcolm X
Movie • 1992
Cheers
TV • 1982
Customer #1
CHiPs
TV • 1977
Roberts
My Wife and Kids
TV • 2001
Ken Kyle
Hill Street Blues
TV • 1981
Inside Comedy
TV • 2012
Self
Finding Your Roots
TV • 2012
Self
In Living Color
TV • 1990
Self - Various Characters
The Chris Rock Show
TV • 1997
Self
For Love and Honor
TV • 1983
Pvt. Duke Johnson
A Different World
TV • 1987
Professor Lawrence
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self - Guest