Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Comedian Rudy Ray Moore, better known as Dolemite, has died in ...

Rudy Ray Moore, the actor/comedian best known as Dolemite, has died. The Website EURWeb is reporting that Rudy Ray Moore, the actor/comedian best known as Dolemite, has died. Moore, who won fame after ...

Eddie Murphy as Rudy Ray Moore in Dolemite Is My Name When I set out for the Dunbar Hotel in Historic South-Central, I didn’t expect to wind up sitting on the curb hooked up to an EKG monitor. About ...

You may know him as Petey Wheatstraw, the Human Tornado, or most commonly, Dolomite. Many consider him the godfather of rap, due to the widely sampled rhyming he used on his party albums. But how ...

Rudy Ray Moore, 81, the self-proclaimed "Godfather of Rap" who influenced generations of rappers and comedians with his rhyming style, braggadocio and profanity-laced routines, died Oct. 19 in Akron, ...

One of several Rudy Ray Moore films, THE HUMAN TORNADO is part of the on-going adventures of Dolemite: a signifying' super-hero. Dolemite comes to the rescue of Queen Bee, whose primarily black ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Comedian Rudy Ray Moore, better known as Dolemite, has died in ...

Rudy Ray Moore, a raunchy 1970s comedian who played the title role of a flashy pimp in the movie “Dolemite” and influenced a generation of rappers, died Sunday, Oct. 19 in Akron, Ohio from ...