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Isaac Hayes
Highest Rated: 90% Wattstax (1973)
Lowest Rated: 25% Reindeer Games (2000)
Birthday: Aug 20, 1942
Birthplace: Covington, Tennessee, USA
Perhaps no other songwriter and musician summed up soul, R&B and funk than Isaac Hayes. Once dubbed "Black Moses," Hayes emerged from being a sideman and songwriter for Stax Records to become the embodiment of early 1970s soul music. After introducing himself with the jazz-influenced Presenting Isaac Hayes, Hayes became a top-selling artist with Hot Buttered Soul and an Academy Award winner for his theme song to the revered blaxploitation flick, "Shaft" (1971). He also found a vibrant second career in films and on television, appearing in small roles in "Escape from New York" (1981), "Dead Aim" (1987) and "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" (1988). Hayes attracted a new generation of fans by voicing Chef on the popular animated comedy, "South Park" (Comedy Central, 1997- ), though he was forced to leave in 2006 after creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone lampooned Scientology, his chosen religion since 1995. But in the end, Hayes was largely remembered for his lush, funk soul music, which gained the admiration of later musicians from all genres, from rock-n-roll to rap to R&B.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45% | 58% | Soul Men | Self | $12.1M | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Return to Sleepaway Camp | Charlie the Chef (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 16% | Kill Switch | Coroner (Character) | - | 2008 |
| 82% | 82% | Hustle & Flow | Arnel (Character) | $22.2M | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Anonymous Rex | Elegant Man (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Book of Days | Jonah (Character) | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Dream Warrior | Yoshi (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 61% | 56% | Only the Strong Survive | Self | $57.3K | 2002 |
| 42% | 26% | Dr. Dolittle 2 | Possum (Voice) | $113.0M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | Baadasssss Cinema | Unknown (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 25% | 27% | Reindeer Games | Zook (Character) | $23.4M | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | It's Only Rock & Roll | Narrator | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dead Dog | Self | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ninth Street | Tippytoe (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 80% | 88% | South Park: The Movie | Jerome 'Chef' McElroy (Voice) | $52.0M | 1999 |
| 36% | 73% | Six Ways to Sunday | Bill Bennet (Character) | $51.6K | 1999 |
| 60% | 30% | Uncle Sam | Jed Crowley (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 50% | 54% | Illtown | George (Character) | $49.1K | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | Backlash: Oblivion 2 | Buster (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 30% | 34% | Flipper | Sheriff Buck Cowan (Character) | $20.0M | 1996 |
| 71% | 87% | Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored | Preacher Hurn (Character) | $65.1K | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Soul Survivors | Vernon Holland (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 72% | 54% | It Could Happen to You | Angel Dupree (Character) | $37.8M | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Deadly Exposure | Lt. Johanson (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 42% | 81% | Robin Hood: Men in Tights | Asneeze (Character) | $35.3M | 1993 |
| 33% | 46% | Posse | Cable (Character) | $16.4M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Acting on Impulse | Detective Stubbs (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hallelujah | Prophet (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Final Judgement | Lt. Herb Jefferson (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Code... Death: Frontera Sur | Unknown (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Prime Target | Capt. Tompkins (Character) | $52.4K | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Guilty as Charged | Aloysius (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Fire, Ice and Dynamite |
Hitek Leader/ |
- | 1990 |
| 62% | 70% | I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | Hammer (Character) | $11.8M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mace | Jamal (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Betrayed by Innocence | Frank Moreno (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jailbait | Frank Moreno (Character) | - | 1986 |
| 88% | 77% | Escape From New York | The Duke of New York (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time | Moriarty (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 60% | 73% | Truck Turner |
Truck Turner (Character), Original Music |
- | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Tough Guys |
Lee (Character), Original Music |
- | 1974 |
| 90% | 90% | Wattstax | Unknown (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brothers and Sisters in Concert | Self | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Save the Children | Self | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Black Moses of Soul | Unknown (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 88% | 68% | Shaft | Original Music | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Maidstone | Original Music | - | 1969 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80% | 87% | South Park |
Chef (Character), Unknown (Guest Star), Unknown (Guest Voice) |
1997-2006 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 82% | That '70s Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bernie Mac Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girlfriends | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
| 47% | No Score Yet | Fastlane | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| 79% | No Score Yet | The Education of Max Bickford | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hughleys | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Sliders | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 91% | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
| 82% | 97% | Tales From the Crypt | Unknown (Character) | 1994 |
| 71% | 85% | Miami Vice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hunter | Jerome "Typhoon" Thompson (Guest Star) | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The A-Team | C.J. Mack (Guest Star) | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rockford Files | Gandolph Fitch (Guest Star) | 1976-1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Guest | 1972 |