Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William G. "Bill" Nunn III (October 20, 1953 – September 24, 2016) was an American actor. Nunn made his acting debut in the 1988 Spike Lee film School Daze, and is perhaps best known for his roles as Radio Raheem in Lee's Do the Right Thing and as Nino Brown's verbally challenged 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 Bac...
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Complete Filmography

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022
as Self (archive footage)
JB Smoove and Martin Starr host a celebration of 20 years of "Spider-Man" movies, from the Sam Raimi trilogy to Marc Webb's movies and the trio from J...

3 Brothers - Radio Raheem, Eric Garner and George Floyd
2020
as Radio Raheem (archival footage)
3 Brothers compiles Radio Raheem’s death scenes from Do the Right Thing with real footage of the deaths of Eric Garner in 2014 and George Floyd last w...

Won't Back Down
2012
as Principal Holland
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission t...

Help Me, Help You
2009
as Detective
Discovering he has six months to live, a doctor begins meddling in the lives of six friends he thinks he can help before he dies -- and even as his ef...

A Raisin in the Sun
2008
as Bobo
Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves whe...

Randy & the Mob
2007
as Wardlowe Gone
A good ol' boy (McKinnon) gets into trouble with some mobsters, and then must seek assistance from his estranged, identical twin gay brother.

Spider-Man 3
2007
as Joseph 'Robbie' Robertson
The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers a...

Firehouse Dog
2007
as Joe Musto
Rexxx, Hollywood's top canine star, gets lost and is adopted into a shabby firehouse. He teams up with a young kid to get the station back on its feet...

Idlewild
2006
as GW
A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the Prohibition-...
Out There
2006
as Desmond
Champions is a comedy about three dysfunctional young men that take a trip to the country. Seeking to instill some harmony into their lives, leave to...

Merry F#%$in' Christmas
2005
as Self
Denis Leary and a cast of many others celebrate Christmas Leary-style. Packed with original music and skits, this is a great spin on the usual holiday...

Spider-Man 2
2004
as Joseph 'Robbie' Robertson
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves th...

Groupies
2003
as Derrick Lassten
Video show host Mia Moore (Chrystale Wilson: The Players Club & Trois) is stuck with a dead end job and forced to take in a roommate, Pancake (Naki Br...

Runaway Jury
2003
as Lonnie Shaver
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, w...

People I Know
2002
as The Reverend Lyle Blunt
A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.

Kudzu Christmas
2002
as Dr. Horace Luke
Recently divorced Nina Taylorson (Wilson) and her young son Mason move to a small Georgia town to start a new life. Mason befriends Gaitus Stevens (La...

Spider-Man
2002
as Joseph 'Robbie' Robertson
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to b...

The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option
2001
as Luther
A former mercenary joins a military academy as a teacher. He soon discovers a neo-Nazi group, code-named Werewolves, formed among the cadets. He also ...

Lockdown
2000
as Charles
Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and...

Stolen from the Heart
2000
as FBI Special Agent Malcolm Russ
A former prostitute kidnaps a baby boy at birth to satisfy her drug-dealing husband, who has told her that he is going to divorce her and put her out ...

The Hungry Bachelors Club
1999
as Moses Grady
A celebration of life, love, acceptance and family, "Food for the Heart" is a sweet romantic comedy, about two best friends, Delmar (Jorja Fox) and Ho...

The Price of a Broken Heart
1999
Fact-based story about a landmark legal battle. A woman (Park Overall) learns that her husband has been having a very open affair with his secretary (...

Foolish
1999
as Jimmy Beck
'Foolish' Waise is a talented comedian with a hard-edge trying to make it in the comedy clubs in LA while his brother is a hard-nosed gangster trying ...

Passing Glory
1999
as Howard Porter
A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and challenged an all-white prep school basketball team i...

Ellen Foster
1998
as Mr. Douglas
After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to f...

The Legend of 1900
1998
as Danny Boodmann
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 learned about the outside worl...

Ambushed
1998
as Watts Fatboy
Jim Natter, the leader of a violent Kuk Klux Klan lodge, is shot dead. His teenage son Eric Natter is found nearby, and taken into police custody for ...

The Tic Code
1998
as Kingston
A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor. With his mother's help, he is...

He Got Game
1998
as Uncle Bubba
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.

Always Outnumbered
1998
as Howard M'Shalla
An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighb...

Carriers
1998
as Capt. David Arends
A military woman and a worried mother travel overseas and to New Mexico to investigate a deadly virus.

Mad City
1997
as Cliff Williams
A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

Kiss the Girls
1997
as Det. John Sampson, LAPD
Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," ...

Quicksilver Highway
1997
as Len
Aaron Quicksilver is a mysterious storyteller whose listeners invariably end up as the subjects of his gruesome, grisly tales. He tells a new bride st...

Extreme Measures
1996
as Burke
Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency roo...

Bulletproof
1996
as Finch
An undercover police officer named Rock Keats befriends a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Moses in a bid to catch the villainous drug lord Fran...

Mr. and Mrs. Loving
1996
as Leonard
A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple ...

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
1995
as Easy Wind
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

Money Train
1995
as Crash Train Motorman
When a vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares, his foster brother—a fellow cop—tries to protect him.

The Affair
1995
as Sgt. Rivers
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of h...

True Crime
1995
as Detective Jerry Guinn
Mary Giordano is a bright, intelligent student who goes to a catholic school. She also has an addiction to mystery novels and detective magazines, whi...

Canadian Bacon
1995
as Kabral Jabar
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
1995
as Reverend Ellis
Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns ...

Blood Brothers
1994
as William Crawford
Blood Brothers- While coming of age in the inner city, Darryl Crawford, a young African-American man, witnesses a gang-related murder and is horrified...

The Last Seduction
1994
as Harlan
A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.

Save Me
1994
as Detective Vincent
An accountant beleaguered by personal and professional problems gets involved with a femme fatale and her mysterious psychiatrist.

Dangerous Heart
1994
as Mulkey
A cop begins to turn to booze and cocaine during a tough undercover assignment. When a big drug-buy goes sour and the cop ends up with a million in ca...

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
as Police Photographer
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before the...

Sister Act
1992
as Lt. Eddie Souther
A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her,...

White Lie
1991
as Chief Adams
A black New York man returns to his southern hometown to investigate his father's lynching at the hands of a white mob.

Regarding Henry
1991
as Bradley, Physical Therapist
Respected lawyer Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. A...

New Jack City
1991
as Duh Duh Duh Man
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infi...

Demon Cop
1990
as Reporter
A former probationary officer who is a patient at a mental asylum escapes and prowls the city, looking for victims whose blood may cure the blood dise...

Mo' Better Blues
1990
as Bottom Hammer
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he ...

Cadillac Man
1990
as Grave Digger
Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe h...

Def by Temptation
1990
as Dougy
An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a co...

Glory
1989
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989
as Self
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.

Do the Right Thing
1989
as Radio Raheem
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzer...

The Littlest Victims
1989
as Orderly
A true account of the life of pioneering AIDS doctor James Oleske.

School Daze
1988
as Grady
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.