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Bill Nunn in Sister Act.
BILL Nunn, a veteran character actor whose credits ranged from the Spider-Man movie franchise to such Spike Lee films as Do the Right Thing and He Got Game, has died.
His wife, Donna, said Nunn died on Saturday at his home in Pittsburgh. He was 63 and had been battling cancer.
Nunn was the son of a prominent Pittsburgh Steelers scout, also named Bill Nunn, and was briefly a ball boy for the NFL team.
J.K. Simmons, Tobey Maguire and Bill Nunn in Spider-Man.Source:Alamy
He broke through in movies in the late 1980s, first in Lee’s School Daze, then in the Oscar-nominated Do the Right Thing as the ill-fated Radio Raheem, who dies when choked by police officers during a street brawl.
Nunn went on to appear in dozen of films and TV programs, including Spider-Man and Sister Act.
Bill Nunn has died at the age of 63.Source:Getty Images