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Murphy’s childhood heroes include Richard Pryor, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis. When Murphy was three years old, his parents split up. His father was murdered by a girlfriend five years later. Murphy ...

But few lit up the screen as fast as Eddie Murphy did in his 1982 cinematic ... and parodies of the likes of The Little Rascals’ Buckwheat made the young comic the next Richard Pryor.

The comedian later gets promoted to the main cast and portrays such characters as a petulant version of Gumby, Buckwheat ... 1983 – HBO airs Murphy’s concert special, “Eddie Murphy ...