Bill Nunn

Bill Nunn

Born: October 20, 1953
Died: September 24, 2016
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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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 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, adapted for TV.

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Movies for Bill Nunn...

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Title: Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 3, 2022
Type: Movie
Join our hosts JB Smoove and Martin Starr for a celebration of 20 years of Spider-Man™ movies! From the original Sam Raimi trilogy to Marc Webb’s “amazing” movies to the latest trio from Director Jon Watts, we will take viewers through the stars, the stunts and action, the villains and heroes and an homage to Stan Lee, along with a few surprises. Find your favourite Spider-Man pajamas and prepare to swing through the past two decades of Spider-Man at the movies!
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3 Brothers - Radio Raheem, Eric Garner and George Floyd
Title: 3 Brothers - Radio Raheem, Eric Garner and George Floyd
Character: Radio Raheem (archival footage)
Released: May 31, 2020
Type: Movie
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 week. All three men, including the fictional one, were killed by white police officers restraining them by their necks on the street. The film premiered during Lee’s appearance on CNN’s I Can’t Breathe: Black Men Living and Dying in America on May 31, anchored by Don Lemon.
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Title: Sirens
Character: Cash
Released: March 6, 2014
Type: TV
A comedy that follows three Chicago EMTs who despite their narcissistic and self-destructive personalities are uniquely qualified to save lives.
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Won't Back Down
Title: Won't Back Down
Character: Principal Holland
Released: September 28, 2012
Type: Movie
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 to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
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A Raisin in the Sun
Title: A Raisin in the Sun
Character: Bobo
Released: February 25, 2008
Type: Movie
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 when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a new home for the family? Perhaps a liquor store? While no choice is easy, life on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s is even harder.
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Randy & the Mob
Title: Randy & the Mob
Character: Wardlowe Gone
Released: October 13, 2007
Type: Movie
A good ol' boy (McKinnon) gets into trouble with some mobsters, and then must seek assistance from his estranged, identical twin gay brother.
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Spider-Man 3
Title: Spider-Man 3
Character: Joseph 'Robbie' Robertson
Released: May 1, 2007
Type: Movie
The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.
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Firehouse Dog
Title: Firehouse Dog
Character: Joe Musto
Released: April 4, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: October Road
Released: March 15, 2007
Type: TV
When Nick Garrett was 18, he packed up his truck and said goodbye for a summer road trip that turned into 10 years of being away. He has since become a literary celebrity in New York, living off the fame and fortune of his best-selling novel and movie, based on his hometown friends. To the literary world, Nick defined a generation, but to his hometown, he betrayed them by sharing secrets. Now, without inspiration for a new book, Nick returns to his hometown to find that feelings toward him have changed.
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Idlewild
Title: Idlewild
Character: GW
Released: August 25, 2006
Type: Movie
At a sexy, sizzling nightclub, pianist Percival lives life by the rules, while Rooster, the club's flashy lead performer, struts his stuff on the stage. But all changes when greed, fame and murder threaten to destroy them and the joint.
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Out There
Title: Out There
Character: Desmond
Released: June 10, 2006
Type: Movie
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 town to spend a weekend in the countryside with an eccentric relative.
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Merry F#%$in' Christmas
Title: Merry F#%$in' Christmas
Character: Self
Released: November 27, 2005
Type: Movie
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 fluff.
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Spider-Man 2
Title: Spider-Man 2
Character: Joseph 'Robbie' Robertson
Released: June 25, 2004
Type: Movie
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 the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn as well...
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Runaway Jury
Title: Runaway Jury
Character: Lonnie Shaver
Released: January 16, 2003
Type: Movie
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
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People I Know
Title: People I Know
Character: The Reverend Lyle Blunt
Released: November 21, 2002
Type: Movie
A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
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Kudzu Christmas
Title: Kudzu Christmas
Character: Dr. Horace Luke
Released: November 5, 2002
Type: Movie
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 (Lawhorn), a lonely recently widowed older gentleman, and together they attempt to save several abandoned puppies hiding in the thick Kudzu bush. Their love, faith and determination help them cope with loss and separation and realize the blessings they share during the holiday season.
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Spider-Man
Title: Spider-Man
Character: Joseph 'Robbie' Robertson
Released: May 1, 2002
Type: Movie
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.
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The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option
Title: The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option
Character: Luther
Released: April 24, 2001
Type: Movie
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 quickly finds that they have military leadership among the officers at the Academy.
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Title: The Job
Character: Terrence "Pip" Phillips
Released: March 14, 2001
Type: TV
Mike McNeil is a decorated New York City detective whose toughest assignment is himself. He's struggling to balance a challenging personal life with a job that leaves him wondering on a daily basis if he is the last sane person in New York. His unconventional approach to his job makes him a great cop, even on the most trying days. The only thing he can't figure out is why, if he's the only sane guy around, everyone's always looking at him like he's crazy.
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The Tic Code
Title: The Tic Code
Character: Kingston
Released: June 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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 an underage regular at a local nightspot, where he is teamed up with a sax superstar. Both come to learn that each suffers from Tourette's Syndrome (thus the film title). The older man has developed mannerisms to cover up his own fallibilities and resents the boy and his mother's acceptance of the disease.
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Stolen from the Heart
Title: Stolen from the Heart
Character: FBI Special Agent Malcolm Russ
Released: January 26, 2000
Type: Movie
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 on the streets if she cannot produce him a son. Obviously the real mother becomes emotionally wrought and determined to get her baby back. Barbara Mandrell gets thrown into all of this mess as the mother's mother, who just happens to be beset with heart problems.
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The Hungry Bachelors Club
Title: The Hungry Bachelors Club
Character: Moses Grady
Released: November 12, 1999
Type: Movie
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 Hortense (Suzanne mara), whose culinary talents and gift for hospitality leads the two women to host evenings of love and laughter with an eccentric circle of half-baked family and friends.
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The Price of a Broken Heart
Title: The Price of a Broken Heart
Released: August 16, 1999
Type: Movie
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 (Laura Innes) and has promised marriage. The wife sues for divorce and also sues the secretary based on an obscure law on alienation of affection, which was created to protect married couples from homewreckers. This sets a new court room consideration, as the culpability of the other woman must be defended and removes from consideration the fault of the married partners.
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Foolish
Title: Foolish
Character: Jimmy Beck
Released: April 9, 1999
Type: Movie
'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 to make it on the streets. With all the competition they face in their chosen "professions," their biggest battle is with each other over the love of a pretty girl.
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Passing Glory
Title: Passing Glory
Character: Howard Porter
Released: February 21, 1999
Type: Movie
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 in the 1960's. Eventually events like these signaled the pivotal turn in the games' history leading to the integration in today's sport. Directed by Steve James (Hoop Dreams), these basketball players didn't just make shots, they made history.
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Ellen Foster
Title: Ellen Foster
Character: Mr. Douglas
Released: December 2, 1998
Type: Movie
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 find a place to call home.
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The Legend of 1900
Title: The Legend of 1900
Character: Danny Boodmann
Released: October 28, 1998
Type: Movie
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship.
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Ambushed
Title: Ambushed
Character: Watts Fatboy
Released: June 20, 1998
Type: Movie
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 his protection pending the investigation. While four cops drive him to a safe-house, they are ambushed. Three of them shot dead, including Deputy Lawrence, and his black partner Jerry Robinson is accused of the murders.
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He Got Game
Title: He Got Game
Character: Uncle Bubba
Released: May 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
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Always Outnumbered
Title: Always Outnumbered
Character: Howard M'Shalla
Released: March 21, 1998
Type: Movie
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 neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.
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Carriers
Title: Carriers
Character: Capt. David Arends
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A military woman and a worried mother travel overseas and to New Mexico to investigate a deadly virus.
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Mad City
Title: Mad City
Character: Cliff Williams
Released: November 7, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Kiss the Girls
Title: Kiss the Girls
Character: Det. John Sampson
Released: September 29, 1997
Type: Movie
Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.
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Quicksilver Highway
Title: Quicksilver Highway
Character: Len
Released: May 13, 1997
Type: Movie
Aaron Quicksilver is a mysterious storyteller whose listeners invariably end up as the subjects of his gruesome, grisly tales. He tells a new bride stranded on a desert highway a horrifying account of a set of carnivorous toy teeth, then entrains a pickpocket with the spine chilling story of an army of murderous, disembodied hands.
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Title: Millennium
Released: October 25, 1996
Type: TV
A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.
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Title: Early Edition
Released: September 28, 1996
Type: TV
Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What will he do with tomorrow's news?
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Extreme Measures
Title: Extreme Measures
Character: Burke
Released: September 27, 1996
Type: Movie
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 room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.
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Bulletproof
Title: Bulletproof
Character: Finch
Released: September 6, 1996
Type: Movie
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 Frank Coltan. But the only problem is that Keats is a cop, his real name is Jack Carter, and he is working undercover with the LAPD to bust Moses and Colton at a sting operation the LAPD has set up.
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Mr. and Mrs. Loving
Title: Mr. and Mrs. Loving
Character: Leonard
Released: March 13, 1996
Type: Movie
A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple are exiled after their wedding and have to wage a courageous battle to find their place in America as a loving family.
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True Crime
Title: True Crime
Character: Detective Jerry Guinn
Released: March 12, 1996
Type: Movie
Mary Giordano is a bright, intelligent student who goes to a catholic school. She also has an addiction to mystery novels and detective magazines, which inspire her to do her own detective work. When she starts snooping around on the case of a murderer of teenage girls, it gets her in hot water with her mentor Detective Jerry Gunn. But it also starts a team up with police cadet Tony Campbell. The two work together to find the murderer. But the closer Mary gets to solving the murder, the more danger she puts herself in of being the next victim.
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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
Title: Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
Character: Easy Wind
Released: December 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.
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Money Train
Title: Money Train
Character: Crash Train Motorman
Released: November 21, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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The Affair
Title: The Affair
Character: Sgt. Rivers
Released: October 14, 1995
Type: Movie
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 her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.
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Canadian Bacon
Title: Canadian Bacon
Character: Kabral Jabar
Released: June 8, 1995
Type: Movie
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
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Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
Title: Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
Character: Reverend Ellis
Released: March 17, 1995
Type: Movie
Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects them.
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Title: Touched by an Angel
Character: Frank Champness
Released: September 21, 1994
Type: TV
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
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Title: Chicago Hope
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: TV
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.
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Title: New York Undercover
Released: September 8, 1994
Type: TV
New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's Fourth Precinct who were assigned to investigate various crimes and gang-related cases.
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Blood Brothers
Title: Blood Brothers
Character: William Crawford
Released: July 14, 1994
Type: Movie
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 to discover that his beloved older brother Sly is one of the perps. Darryl grapples with his conscience over informing on Sly -- but this fear becomes secondary when the remaining gang members close in on both brothers and threaten their lives.
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The Last Seduction
Title: The Last Seduction
Character: Harlan
Released: May 26, 1994
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Traps
Character: Jack Cloud
Released: March 31, 1994
Type: TV
Traps is an American police drama that aired on CBS from March 31, 1994 to April 27, 1994.
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Save Me
Title: Save Me
Character: Detective Vincent
Released: March 23, 1994
Type: Movie
An accountant beleaguered by personal and professional problems gets involved with a femme fatale and her mysterious psychiatrist.
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Dangerous Heart
Title: Dangerous Heart
Character: Mulkey
Released: February 2, 1994
Type: Movie
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 cash, he decides to take off with the money. The drug dealer catches up with him, but he dies before revealing where he stashed the cash. Months later, the drug dealer finds the cop's wife and seduces her, in an effort to find his missing million. In the process, he falls in love with her and alienates his former partners in crime.
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Title: Bakersfield P.D.
Character: Troy Davis
Released: September 14, 1993
Type: TV
Bakersfield P.D. is a short-lived American television comedy series that aired on the Fox network in 1993-94. The show was based in the police department of the city of Bakersfield, California. It was shot with naturalistic lighting and without a laugh track. Fox canceled the show after one season, citing low ratings. The cable channel Trio reran the show under its "Brilliant But Cancelled" umbrella.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Gen. John Steffan
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Title: Fallen Angels
Character: Fearless Jones
Released: August 1, 1993
Type: TV
A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The episodes, although filmed in color, mimicked what had been done by Hollywood filmmakers during the film noir era of the 1940s and 1950s in terms of tone, look, and story content.
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National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Title: National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Character: Police Photographer
Released: February 4, 1993
Type: Movie
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 they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the 'Wilderness Girls' cookie drive.
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Sister Act
Title: Sister Act
Character: Lt. Eddie Souther
Released: May 28, 1992
Type: Movie
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, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. Eventually the singer rescues the failing choir and begins helping with community projects, which gets her an interview on TV—and identification by the mob.
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White Lie
Title: White Lie
Character: Chief Adams
Released: September 25, 1991
Type: Movie
A black New York man returns to his southern hometown to investigate his father's lynching at the hands of a white mob.
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Regarding Henry
Title: Regarding Henry
Character: Bradley, Physical Therapist
Released: July 10, 1991
Type: Movie
Respected lawyer, Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. After also losing his job—where he no longer 'fits in'—his loving wife and daughter give him all their love and support.
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New Jack City
Title: New Jack City
Character: Duh Duh Duh Man
Released: March 8, 1991
Type: Movie
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 infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
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Mo' Better Blues
Title: Mo' Better Blues
Character: Bottom Hammer
Released: August 3, 1990
Type: Movie
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
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Cadillac Man
Title: Cadillac Man
Character: Grave Digger
Released: May 18, 1990
Type: Movie
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 has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.
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Def by Temptation
Title: Def by Temptation
Character: Dougy
Released: March 23, 1990
Type: Movie
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 cop that specializes in cases involving the supernatural.
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Glory
Title: Glory
Released: December 15, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Title: Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Character: Self
Released: November 3, 1989
Type: Movie
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
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Do the Right Thing
Title: Do the Right Thing
Character: Radio Raheem
Released: June 14, 1989
Type: Movie
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
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School Daze
Title: School Daze
Character: Grady
Released: February 12, 1988
Type: Movie
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Starletta's dad
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.