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Bill Nunn (born October 20, 1953) is an American actor
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Bill Nunn (born October 20, 1953) is an American actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
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Biography


Early life

Nunn was born in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with a population of 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is 2,462,571....
, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a U.S. state located in the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States....
, the son of William G. Nunn, Jr., a well-known journalist and editor at the Pittsburgh Courier
Pittsburgh Courier

The New Pittsburgh Courier is an United states newspaper for African-Americans, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Formerly named the Pittsburgh Courier, a publication that at its height in the 1930s, had a national circulation of almost 200,000....
, as well as an NFL scout. Nunn's paternal grandfather was the first African American
African American

African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
 football player at George Westinghouse High School. Nunn attended Morehouse College
Morehouse College

Morehouse College is a Private university, Men's colleges in the United States, Historically Black colleges and universities college located in Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia ....
 in Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
. Also, Nunn's early childhood friend Sam Baird has been with him his whole career.

Career

Nunn made his acting debut in the 1988
1988 in film

Events* Michael Jackson's first film was MoonwalkerTop grossing films source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm...
 Spike Lee
Spike Lee

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated United States film director, Film producer, screenwriter, and actor, noted for his films dealing with controversial Society and Politics issues....
 film School Daze
School Daze

School Daze is a 1988 in film Musical film-drama film, screenwriter and film director by Spike Lee, and starring Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, and Tisha Campbell-Martin....
, and is perhaps best known for his roles as Radio Raheem
Radio Raheem

Radio Raheem is an archetype character from Spike Lee?s career-defining film, 1989?s Do the Right Thing. Radio Raheem served as one of the chief minor characters and was portrayed by Bill Nunn....
 in Lee's Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing is a 1989 in film written, produced and directed by Spike Lee. The film tells a tale of bigotry and racial conflict in a multi-ethnic community in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York on the hottest day of the year....
 and as Nino Brown
Nino Brown

Nino Brown is a fictional character in the 1991 in film film New Jack City. In the film, Nino Brown and his crew, the "Cash Money Brothers", become the dominant drug ring in New York City when cocaine#Crack_cocaine cocaine is introduced to the city streets during the 1980s and early 1990s....
's verbally challenged bodyguard Duh Duh Duh Man in New Jack City
New Jack City

New Jack City is a 1991 in film crime film-Thriller /Neo-noir film starring Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson and Chris Rock....
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Some of his other film credits include Lee's Mo' Better Blues
Mo' Better Blues

Mo' Better Blues is a 1990 drama film starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee, who also film director. It follows a period in the life of a fictional jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam as a series of bad decisions result in his jeopardizing both his relationships and his playing career....
 and He Got Game
He Got Game

He Got Game is a 1998 in film list of sports films-drama film film written and directed by Spike Lee, and starring Denzel Washington and then-Milwaukee Bucks guard Ray Allen as a father and son trying to reconcile on the eve of the signing day for his son, the #1 prep player from Abraham Lincoln High School , and under pressure to decide...
, as well as Regarding Henry
Regarding Henry

Regarding Henry is a 1991 in film directed by Mike Nichols, starring Harrison Ford and Annette Bening. The screenplay was written by J. J. Abrams....
, Sister Act
Sister Act

Sister Act is a 1992 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film released by Touchstone Pictures. Directed by Emile Ardolino, it features musical arrangements by Marc Shaiman and stars Whoopi Goldberg as a Reno lounge singer who has been put under protective custody in a San Francisco convent and has to pretend to be a nun when a mob...
, Canadian Bacon
Canadian bacon

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, The Last Seduction
The Last Seduction

The Last Seduction is a neo-noir 1994 in film film directed by John Dahl.The movie features Linda Fiorentino as the femme fatale, Peter Berg as a small town man whose one night affair turns into more than he wanted, and Bill Pullman as Fiorentino's husband who is chasing her and running from loan sharks at the same time....
, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead is a 1995 movie directed by Gary Fleder and written by Scott Rosenberg. Starring Andy Garcia, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Fairuza Balk and Gabrielle Anwar....
, New Jack City
New Jack City

New Jack City is a 1991 in film crime film-Thriller /Neo-noir film starring Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson and Chris Rock....
, Runaway Jury
Runaway Jury

----Runaway Jury is an United States drama/Thriller film directed by Gary Fleder and starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, and Rachel Weisz....
, Spider-Man trilogy (as Joseph "Robbie" Robertson), Firehouse Dog
Firehouse Dog

Firehouse Dog is a family film produced by Regency Enterprises and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Directed by Todd Holland , it stars Josh Hutcherson, Bruce Greenwood, Dash Mihok, Steven Culp and Bill Nunn....
, the television series The Job
The Job (TV series)

The Job is a single-camera television comedy about a New York City police officer named Mike McNeil -- who indulges in adultery, alcohol, cigarettes and prescription drug abuse -- and his fellow 'bumbling detective' pals....
, Randy and The Mob
Randy and The Mob

Randy and The Mob is a 2006 comedy film screenwriter, Film_director and starring Ray McKinnon. It also stars Lisa Blount, Walton Goggins and Bill Nunn, with a cameo by Burt Reynolds....
, and A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway theatre in 1959. The story is based upon a family's own experiences growing up in the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago, Illinois's Woodlawn, Chicago neighborhood....
, adapted for TV.

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