FrameThrower · Actors · Bill Nunn
Bill Nunn
8 films · 606 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1989–2004
Born 20 October 1953 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA · died 24 September 2016
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William G. "Bill" Nunn III 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 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 A Raisin in the Sun,…
How their films are shot
Measured across 606 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Bill takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 56% of their frames are night, 52% low key — the look of the work Bill takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 606 frames from Bill Nunn's 8 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.