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Rudy Ray Moore is a Actor, Scriptwriter, Producer and Set Decoration American born on 17 march 1927 at Fort Smith (USA)

Rudy Ray Moore

Rudy Ray Moore
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Birth name Rudolph Frank Moore
Nationality USA
Birth 17 march 1927 at Fort Smith (USA)
Death 19 october 2008 (at 81 years) at Akron (USA)

Rudolph Frank Moore (March 17, 1927 – October 19, 2008), known as Rudy Ray Moore, was an American comedian, musician, singer, film actor, and film producer. He was perhaps best known as Dolemite (the name derived from the mineral dolomite), the uniquely articulate pimp from the 1975 film Dolemite, and its sequels, The Human Tornado and The Return of Dolemite. The persona was developed during his earlier comedy records, for which Moore has been called "the Godfather of Rap".

Biography

Moore was born and raised in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and eventually moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and then Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Milwaukee, he preached in churches as well as worked as a nightclub dancer. He returned to Cleveland, working in clubs as a singer, dancer, and comedian, often appearing in character as Prince DuMarr. He joined the US Army and served in an entertainment unit in Germany, where he was nicknamed the Harlem Hillbilly for singing country songs in R&B style. He developed an interest in comedy in the Army after expanding on a singing performance for other servicemen.

After his discharge he lived in Seattle, Washington and then Los Angeles, where he continued to work in clubs and was discovered by record producer Dootsie Williams. He recorded rhythm and blues songs for the Federal, Cash, Ball, Kent and Imperial labels between 1955 and 1962, and released his first comedy albums, Below the Belt (1959), The Beatnik Scene (1962), and A Comedian Is Born (1964).

By his own account, he was working at a record store in Hollywood in 1970 when he began hearing obscene stories of "Dolemite" recounted by a local man named Rico. Moore began recording the stories, and assumed the role of "Dolemite" in his club act and on recordings. In 1970–71 he recorded three albums of material, Eat Out More Often, This Pussy Belongs To Me, and The Dirty Dozens, where "with jazz and R&B musicians playing in the background, [Moore] would recite raunchy, sexually explicit rhymes that often had to do with pimps, prostitutes, players, and hustlers."

Moore was influenced by more mainstream comedians such as Red Foxx and Richard Pryor, as well as by traditions such as the Dozens. The recordings were usually made in Moore's own house, with friends in attendance to give a party atmosphere. The album covers and contents were often too racy to be put on display in record stores, but the records became popular through word of mouth and were highly successful in disadvantaged black American communities, where his "warped wit and anti-establishment outlook" were embraced.

Moore spent most of his earnings from the records to finance the movie Dolemite, which appeared in 1975 and has been described as "one of the great blaxploitation movies" of the 1970s. The character was "the ultimate ghetto hero: a bad dude, profane, skilled at kung-fu, dressed to kill and hell-bent on protecting the community from evil menaces. He was a pimp with a kung-fu-fighting clique of prostitutes and he was known for his sexual prowess."

The film was successful and was followed by sequels, The Human Tornado, The Monkey Hustle, and Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-in-Law. Moore continued to release albums that appealed to his enduring fanbase through the 1970s and 1980s, but little of his work reached the mainstream white audience. His "rapid-fire rhyming salaciousness exceeded the wildest excesses" of Foxx and Pryor, and his highly explicit style kept him off television and major films. At the same time, Moore often spoke in his church and regularly took his mother to the National Baptist Convention. He said that: "I wasn't saying dirty words just to say them... It was a form of art, sketches in which I developed ghetto characters who cursed. I don't want to be referred to as a dirty old man, rather a ghetto expressionist."

He came to be regarded as a major influence by many later rap stars. Snoop Dogg said: "Without Rudy Ray Moore, there would be no Snoop Dogg, and that's for real." Moore appeared on Big Daddy Kane's 1990 album Taste of Chocolate and 2 Live Crew's 1994 album Back at Your Ass for the Nine-4. On an episode of Martin titled "The Players Came Home," he appeared as himself in the Dolemite character. He also reprised his Dolemite character in an appearance on Snoop Dogg's 1999 album No Limit Top Dogg and Busta Rhymes' When Disaster Strikes... and Genesis.

In 2000, Moore starred in Big Money Hustlas, a movie created by and starring the hip hop group Insane Clown Posse, in which he played Dolemite for the first time in over 20 years. In 2006, Moore voice acted in the show Sons of Butcher, as Rudy in season 2. In 2008, he reprised the character Petey Wheatstraw on the song "I Live for the Funk," which featured Blowfly and Daniel Jordan. This marked the first time Blowfly and Rudy collaborated on the same record together—and the 30-year anniversary of the movie Petey Wheatstraw and was also the final recording Rudy made before his death.

On October 19, 2008, Moore died in Akron, Ohio, of complications from diabetes. He was never married; his mother, two brothers and one sister, daughter and grandchildren survived him.

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Dr. Dre
Dr. Dre
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Ernie Hudson
Ernie Hudson
(3 films)
Hy Pyke
Hy Pyke
(1 films)
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Filmography of Rudy Ray Moore (15 films)

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Actor

Vampire Assassin, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Vampires in film
Actors Mel Novak, Gerald Okamura, Rudy Ray Moore
Rating16% 0.824320.824320.824320.824320.82432
When protagonist Derek Washington (Hall) was just a child, he witnessed his father's murder. Because of this, he became very afraid of blood. However, when a sting operation to find a counterfeiter named Gustoff Slovak (Mel Novak) goes wrong, Derek is forced to face his fear: blood. The operation backfires, resulting in a massacre that leaves Derek's team wiped out. Derek reaches the shocking conclusion that Slovak is actually a vampire, and joins forces with a weapons expert named Master Kao (Gerald Okamura). Kao is the last in a long line of vampire hunters, and agrees to train Derek in this ancient art of vampire slaying. However, in order to defeat Slovak, Derek must become a vampire assassin.
Lil' Pimp
Lil' Pimp (2005)
, 1h20
Directed by Mark Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Lil' Kim, Mark Brooks, Bernie Mac, Ludacris, William Shatner, Danny Bonaduce
Roles Mr Slippers (voice)
Rating48% 2.4191852.4191852.4191852.4191852.419185
A little redhead, freckled 9-year-old boy (whose name is not mentioned during the movie, but is revealed in the very end of the movie, as well as in the credits, to be Lil' Pimp) is unable to adapt to suburban life, as his only friend is a foul mouthed gerbil and faces constant rejection by his peers. He accidentally meets a prostitute under the name of Sweet Chiffon, who takes him to her working place, a bar named "the Playground", where he befriends the pimp "Fruit Juice", who gives him a small amount of "pimp glitter". He decides he wants to become a pimp.
Big Money Hustlas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Musical films
Actors Violent J, Shaggy 2 Dope, Harland Williams, Floyd Vivino, Johnny Brennan, Rudy Ray Moore
Roles Dolemite
Rating56% 2.800492.800492.800492.800492.80049
Sugar Bear (Shaggy 2 Dope), a streetwise detective from San Francisco, is brought to New York City by its chief of police (John G. Brennan) to take down Big Baby Sweets (Violent J), a notorious crime lord who controls the entirety of the city's criminal underworld with his right-hand men Big Stank (Jamie Madrox) and Lil' Poot (Monoxide Child), and his personal security ninja Hack Benjamin (Robert Bruce). After getting a firsthand look at the police force's incompetence via Officer Harry Cox (Harland Williams), Sugar Bear prevents a robbery of a local doughnut shop by one of Big Baby Sweets' thugs, Ape Boy, and begins a romance with a 300-pound stripper, Missy (Sindee Williams).
Jackie's Back!, 2h
Directed by Robert Townsend
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Musical
Actors Jenifer Lewis, Tim Curry, Whoopi Goldberg, Tangie Ambrose, Loretta Devine, David Hyde Pierce
Roles Bad Guy in Coco Movie
Rating70% 3.540923.540923.540923.540923.54092
Presented as a mockumentary, Jackie's Back chronicles the life and career of Jackie Washington (Jenifer Lewis), a 1960s/1970s R&B diva. After several years of toiling in obscurity, Washington decides to organize her own comeback concert with filmmaker Edward Whatsett St. John (Tim Curry) filming the event. The film also features numerous cameo appearances by celebrities.
B.A.P.S
B.A.P.S (1997)
, 1h31
Directed by Robert Townsend
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Halle Berry, Martin Landau, Ian William Richardson, Troy Beyer, Natalie Desselle-Reid, Pierre
Roles Nate
Rating47% 2.354232.354232.354232.354232.35423
Nisi (Halle Berry) and Mickey (Natalie Desselle-Reid) are waitresses in a soul food diner in Decatur, Georgia. Their dream is to open the world's first combination hair salon and soul food restaurant.
Murder Was the Case: The Movie, 18minutes
Directed by F. Gary Gray, Dr. Dre
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Musical, Crime
Actors Snoop Dogg, Charlie Murphy, John Witherspoon, John Amos, Fred Berry, Ice Cube
Roles Dolemite
Rating59% 2.9987352.9987352.9987352.9987352.998735
Le film revient sur la mort fictive du rappeur Snoop Dogg et de sa résurrection après un pacte avec le Diable...
Penitentiary II, 1h48
Directed by Jamaa Fanaka
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Prison films, Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Ernie Hudson, Glynn Turman, Tony Cox, Ren Woods, Mr. T, James Hawthorne
Roles Husband
Rating44% 2.214892.214892.214892.214892.21489
Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone earned his parole from jail by winning a prison boxing tournament. All Gordone wants to do is start a peaceful life, but a condition of his release is that he work for a boxing promoter. Gordone has no interest in boxing and wants to live with his sister and her husband who support his desire to start over. However, when some of his enemies from prison escape and kill his girlfriend, Gordone changes his plans and returns to the ring.
Disco Godfather, 1h33
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Rudy Ray Moore, Carol Speed, Julius Carry, Keith David, James Hawthorne
Roles Tucker Williams
Rating52% 2.6070952.6070952.6070952.6070952.607095
Rudy Ray Moore incarne Tucker Williams, le propriétaire de la discothèque Blueberry Hill, dont il est la principale attraction. Cet ancien flic plein de bagout adore distribuer des baffes : aussi n’hésite-t-il pas à revenir aux affaires, quand son neveu devient accro à la poussière d’ange ! Plus sa lutte s’étend, plus Tucker réalise que Stinger et ses sbires sont aussi mortels que la drogue qu’ils revendent.
Petey Wheatstraw, 1h34
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Actors Rudy Ray Moore, Sy Richardson
Roles Petey
Rating59% 2.996412.996412.996412.996412.99641
Petey Wheatstraw (Rudy Ray Moore) is born during a great Miami hurricane, and after a difficult labor by his mother, emerges as a talking, diaper-wearing six-year-old boy who promptly attacks the doctor, and then his father for "disturbing me in my sleep every night." His mother puts him in his place, and names him "Petey Wheatstraw."
The Human Tornado, 1h48
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Rudy Ray Moore, Ernie Hudson, Jack Kelly
Roles Dolemite
Rating60% 3.0480353.0480353.0480353.0480353.048035
After coming off a successful comedy tour, Dolemite throws a get-together at his mansion, there he announces that he is to offer his mansion to the person that started a drive for a new boys' home, then is rudely interrupted by the local sheriff and his deputies because they're a group of black people having a party, thus causing trouble. Turns out the Sheriff's wife is offering Dolemite money for sexual services. When the sheriff catches them red handed, he promptly shoots his wife. Dolemite and his friends kidnap a young man and his car and decide to head to California where he is to meet Queen Bee, only to find out that the local mob man, Joe Cavaletti kidnapped two of her girls and forced her to close down her joint and work for him. Dolemite must rescue Queen Bee, her girls and teach the grease balls a lesson all the while being chased by his hometown's sheriff for the murder of his wife he pinned on him.
Dolemite
Dolemite (1975)
, 1h30
Directed by D'Urville Martin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Hy Pyke, Rudy Ray Moore, D'Urville Martin
Roles Dolemite
Rating56% 2.8027152.8027152.8027152.8027152.802715
Dolemite is a pimp who is serving 20 years in prison after being set up by a rival, Willie Green. One day, his friend and fellow pimp Queen B helps him get out of jail, and plots with him to get revenge on Green.