Bill Nunn

William G. "Bill" Nunn III (October 20, 1953 – September 24, 2016) was an American actor best known for his roles as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing and Robbie Robertson in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man film trilogy.

Early life

Nunn was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of William G. Nunn, Jr., a well-known journalist and editor at the Pittsburgh Courier, as well as an NFL scout. Nunn's paternal grandfather was the first African American football player at George Westinghouse High School.

While ball boys for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Bill Nunn and current Steelers President Art Rooney II stole "Mean" Joe Greene's car during training camp at St Vincent College in Latrobe, PA. "Joe Greene showed up in a beautiful green Lincoln Continental, and me and Bill Nunn, Jr. were ball boys. Somehow Bill got the keys one night and we decided to take it for a ride. We only told Joe that story about 10 years ago. We figured that enough time had passed that we could disclose our little joy ride."

Nunn was a 1970 graduate of Schenley High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1976 from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.

Career

Nunn made his acting debut in the 1988 Spike Lee film School Daze, and is best known for his roles as Radio Raheem in Lee's Do the Right Thing and as Nino Brown's bodyguard Duh Duh Duh Man in New Jack City.

Some of his other film credits include Lee's Mo' Better Blues and He Got Game, as well as Regarding Henry, Sister Act, Canadian Bacon, The Last Seduction, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, New Jack City, Runaway Jury, Spider-Man trilogy (as Joseph "Robbie" Robertson), Firehouse Dog, the television series The Job, Randy and The Mob, and the televised adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun.

Filmography

• School Daze (1988)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Def by Temptation (1990)
• Cadillac Man (1990)
• Mo' Better Blues (1990)
• White Lie (1991)
• New Jack City (1991)
• Regarding Henry (1991)
• Sister Act (1992)
• Dangerous Heart (1993)
• Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
• Blood Brothers (1993)
• Save Me (1994)
• Silent Witness: What a Child Saw (1994)
• Canadian Bacon (1994)
• The Last Seduction (1994)
• New York Undercover (TV Series) (1995)
• True Crime (1995)
• The Affair (1995)
• Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)
• Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
• Money Train (1995)
• Extreme Measures (1996)
• Bulletproof (1996)
• Touched by an Angel (TV series) (1996)
• Ellen Foster (1997)
• Kiss The Girls (1997)
• Quicksilver Highway (1997)
• Carriers (1998)
• He Got Game (1998)
• Always Outnumbered (1998)
• Food for the Heart (1999)
• Foolish (1999)
• Passing Glory (1999)
• The Legend of 1900 (La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano), (1999)
• Stolen from the Heart (2000)
• The Tic Code (2000)
• Lockdown (2000)
• The Job (TV series) (2001–2002)
• Groupies (2001)
• Kuduz Christmas (2002)
• Spider-Man (2002)
• People I Know (2002)
• Runaway Jury (2003)
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• Idlewild (2006)
• Randy and the Mob (2007)
• Firehouse Dog (2007)
• Spider-Man 3 (2007)
• A Raisin in the Sun (2008)
• Fences (2009)
• If It Ain't Broke, Break It (2009)
• Won't Back Down (2012)
• Sirens (TV series) (2014)