Kool Moe Dee Filmography

Born:: August 8, 1962 in Harlem, New York, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Mohandas DeWese

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The Art of 16 Bars

Synopsis: The Art of 16 Bars features interviews with major hip-hop stars that involve them discussing how they rose to prominence. Among the artists who offer their insights are 50 Cent, Nas, Kanye West, Russell Simmons, and The RZA. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2005
War on Wax: Rivalries in Hip-Hop

2003
The New Guy

Actors: D.J. Qualls, Eliza Dushku, Zooey Deschanel, Lyle Lovett, Jerod Mixon, Eddie Griffin

Synopsis: Former Prada model and Road Trip co-star D.J. Qualls makes a bid for leading man status in this nerd-makeover comedy. Qualls stars as Dizzy, a dorky but delinquent high school student who's determined to get expelled from his hellish high school -- but ends up landing in jail instead. There he Read More

5/10/02
Crossroads

Actors: Britney Spears, Zoe Saldana, Anson Mount, Taryn Manning

Synopsis: Multimillion-selling recording artist Britney Spears makes the transition to the big screen with this teen road trip romantic comedy, co-produced by the film branch of the entity that first brought her pop stardom, MTV. Crossroads casts Spears as Lucy, the shy valedictorian of her high school Read More

2/15/02
Jackpot

Actors: Mac Davis, Mark Polish, Jon Gries, Garrett Morris, Daryl Hannah, Kool Moe Dee

Synopsis: Director Michael Polish and his twin brother Mark, who co-wrote and co-starred in the low-key, yet bizarre Twin Falls Idaho, about a woman who falls in love with a conjoined twin, follow up that modest cult hit with Jackpot. Jackpot is named for the town of Jackpot, NV, said in the film to be Read More

7/27/01
Out Kold

Actors: Ice-T, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr.

Synopsis: Two legends of old-school hip-hop -- Ice-T and Kool Moe Dee -- star in this hard-edged urban drama. Slim is a boxer whose days in the ring are over; he's too old and too slow to be a contender any more, but he's too young and too broke to retire. Desperate for a new job, Slim is hired by a pimp to Read More

2001
Brother

Actors: Joy Nakagawa, Tatyana Ali, Beat Takeshi Kitano, Claude Maki, Omar Epps, Masaya Kato, Ren Ohsugi

Synopsis: Internationally acclaimed director and Japanese media phenomenon Takeshi Kitano follows up his well-regarded Kikujiro with this straight-ahead gangster saga with a cross-cultural twist. The film focuses on Yamamoto (Kitano), a yakuza forced out of the country when a gang war all but wipes out his Read More

8/23/00
Cypress Edge

Actors: Damian Chapa, Brad Dourif, Ashley Laurence, Charles Napier, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Reeling from the news of his sister's suicide, Beau McCammon returns home to his family after a long absence. His father, who has just barely won another term as senator, doesn't take things well when Beau approaches him with the sinking suspicion that the suicide may have actually been a murder. Read More

1999
Gang Related

Actors: James Belushi, Tupac Shakur, Lela Rochon, Dennis Quaid, James Earl Jones

Synopsis: A pair of corrupt police officers discover the hard way that crime really doesn't pay in this action drama. Divinci (James Belushi) and Rodriguez (Tupac Shakur) are two New York undercover cops with serious money problems: Rodriguez owes a huge gambling debt, while Divinci wants to retire to Read More

1997
Storm Trooper

Actors: Carol Alt, John Laughlin, Zach Galligan, Corey Feldman

Synopsis: A robot cop goes rogue in this sci-fi actioner from prolific director Jim Wynorski. John Laughlin stars as Stark, the cyborg lawman in question. On the run from his keepers, Stark finds refuge with Grace (Carol Alt). Adding some tension and intrigue to the situation is the fact that Grace has Read More

1997
Panther

Actors: Kadeem Hardison, Bokeem Woodbine, Joe Don Baker, Courtney Vance, Tyrin Turner

Synopsis: This controversial political drama semi-fictionalizes the history of the radical Black Panther Party, an African-American organization that polarized America from 1966-70. Huey Newton (Marcus Chong) and Bobby Seale (Courtney B. Vance) are a pair of Oakland, California, men who form a new political Read More

1995
Strapped

Actors: Michael Biehn, Kia Joy Goodwin, Bokeem Woodbine

Synopsis: An impoverished African American teen, raised in a grim and desperate Brooklyn project finds himself forced to set aside his dreams in order to face the realities of daily survival. This well-wrought and disturbing portrait of a young man's life was penned by New York Times reporter Dena Kleiman. Read More

1993
Listen Up!: The Lives of Quincy Jones

Actors: Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis

Synopsis: The extraordinary life of Quincy Jones -- one of the 20th century's most influential and talented composers, musicians and music producers -- provides the basis of this offbeat, free-form documentary tribute. With little regard for formal timelines and traditional documentary biography methods Read More

10/5/90
Beat Street

Actors: Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis, John Chardiet, Leon Grant, Robert Taylor

Synopsis: Jon Chardiet plays a Puerto Rican youth who targets subway walls for his graffiti renderings. For a while, it looks as though Chardiet's problems will carry the plotline, but before long the film's true raison d'etre comes to the surface. Rap-music deejay Guy Davis, in tandem with such like-minded Read More

6/8/84
Graffiti Rock and Other Hip Hop Delights

Synopsis: Graffiti Rock & Other Hip Hop Delights documents the birth of hip hop and rap as seen through the eyes of Michael Holman. Holman created a pair of television shows that helped bring such early pioneers as Run-DMC, Special K, and Kool Moe Dee to a wide audience. The shows were titled Graffiti Rock Read More