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Life and work
Bill Nunn was an American actor. Born: 20 October 1953. Died: 24 September 2016. Citizenship recorded in the biographical source: United States.
Actor · 1953–2016
Bill Nunn
Bill Nunn was an American actor. Born on 20 October 1953, this profile follows Bill Nunn through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 3 (2007) and Do the Right Thing. The location trail reaches Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Greystone Mansion and Alexandria Hotel. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
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Spider-Man · Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Bill Nunn is credited as cast member on Spider-Man. The work’s existing location story leads to Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is documented as a location associated with Spider-Man (2002). The pin identifies the site; individual shots and interior sets can differ.
Spider-Man — credits ↗︎Natural History Museum: Hollywood film tour ↗︎
Spider-Man 3 · Alexandria Hotel
Bill Nunn is credited as cast member on Spider-Man 3. The work’s existing location story leads to Alexandria Hotel. Alexandria Hotel is documented as a location associated with Spider-Man 3 (2007). The pin identifies the site; individual shots and interior sets can differ.
Do the Right Thing · Do the Right Thing Way
Bill Nunn is credited as cast member on Do the Right Thing. The work’s existing location story leads to Do the Right Thing Way. Yale's production notes describe six weeks of preparation and eight weeks of filming on one Stuyvesant Avenue block. The crew built Sal's Famous Pizzeria and the Korean grocery across from one another, repainted façades in heat-saturated oranges and reds, and transformed a real residential street into the film's compressed social universe. The map therefore marks the block rather than pretending one surviving doorway can represent the temporary sets.
Do the Right Thing — credits ↗︎Yale Film Archive — Do the Right Thing notes ↗︎
THE PLACES BEHIND THE STORY
A life on the map.
Explore 8 connections. Each connection links to its evidence; outlined circles mark approximate areas, not exact buildings or camera positions.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County ↗︎
A screen location
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is documented as a location associated with Spider-Man (2002). The pin identifies the site; individual shots and interior sets can differ.
900 W Exposition Boulevard
Open street map ↗︎Greystone Mansion ↗︎
A screen location
Greystone Mansion is documented as a location associated with Spider-Man (2002). The pin identifies the site; individual shots and interior sets can differ.
905 Loma Vista Drive
Open street map ↗︎Alexandria Hotel ↗︎
A screen location
Alexandria Hotel is documented as a location associated with Spider-Man 3 (2007). The pin identifies the site; individual shots and interior sets can differ.
501 S Spring Street
Open street map ↗︎Do the Right Thing Way ↗︎
Spike Lee turns one Bedford-Stuyvesant block into a whole city
Yale's production notes describe six weeks of preparation and eight weeks of filming on one Stuyvesant Avenue block. The crew built Sal's Famous Pizzeria and the Korean grocery across from one another, repainted façades in heat-saturated oranges and reds, and transformed a real residential street into the film's compressed social universe. The map therefore marks the block rather than pretending one surviving doorway can represent the temporary sets.
Stuyvesant Avenue between Quincy Street and Lexington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216
Open street map ↗︎Mookie's Stuyvesant Avenue home exterior ↗︎
Mookie's day begins at 173 Stuyvesant Avenue
NYC in Film identifies the Stuyvesant Avenue exterior used for Mookie's home. It is one of the film's most important thresholds: the route from the residential stoop to Sal's delivery run compresses the film's whole neighborhood into a few blocks. The record names the documented exterior without implying access to the private residence.
NYC in Film — Do the Right Thing locations ↗︎Yale Film Archive — Do the Right Thing notes ↗︎
173 Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216
Open street map ↗︎Radio Raheem's Stuyvesant Avenue encounter ↗︎
Radio Raheem's confrontation occupies the same block
The Radio Raheem and Sal's confrontation is associated with 180 Stuyvesant Avenue in NYC in Film's location account. The sequence's force comes from the way Spike Lee keeps the characters inside one shared residential geography; the site is mapped as an area-level production stop rather than a claimed frame-by-frame camera coordinate.
NYC in Film — Do the Right Thing locations ↗︎Atlas Obscura — Do the Right Thing Way ↗︎
180 Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216
Open street map ↗︎Sal's Pizzeria set corner ↗︎
Sal's Famous Pizzeria was built for the corner
The production did not use a surviving pizzeria at this address: Yale's notes describe a temporary Sal's façade built on the southwest corner of Stuyvesant and Lexington, with the Korean grocery constructed opposite. Atlas Obscura records the same corner as the later Do the Right Thing Way landmark, so the map distinguishes the vanished set from the living street.
Yale Film Archive — Do the Right Thing notes ↗︎Atlas Obscura — Do the Right Thing Way ↗︎
Southwest corner of Stuyvesant Avenue and Lexington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216
Open street map ↗︎Korean grocery set across Sal's block ↗︎
The Korean grocery completes the street's visual argument
Yale's production account describes the Korean grocery façade constructed across from Sal's. Its presence is essential to the film's compressed social world, while the set itself disappeared after filming; this entry records a researched historical production site, not a present-day shopfront.
Yale Film Archive — Do the Right Thing notes ↗︎Atlas Obscura — Do the Right Thing Way ↗︎
Stuyvesant Avenue between Lexington Avenue and Quincy Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216
Open street map ↗︎IN THE STORY1953-10-20 2016-09-24
Born 20 October 1953
Died 24 September 2016
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WORKS
Culture, connected.
Follow the work through its real places.
Spider-Man
Sam Raimi
Spider-Man 3
Sam Raimi
Do the Right Thing ↗︎
Do the Right Thing
KEEP EXPLORING
Cities and Worlds.
Los Angeles ↗︎
Follow a scene into the hills. A song onto the Strip. A story all the way to the ocean.
New York ↗︎
Street corners, fire escapes and subway rhythms. A city to read at walking pace.
Do the Right Thing ↗︎
Hydrant: open the block’s only fire hydrant a quarter-turn at a time and aim the spray along Stuyvesant Avenue, cooling each front to open its place; send Mookie’s pizza boxes off the block, then turn Radio Raheem’s boombox round to read Lee’s inscription.
PEOPLE IN THE STORY
Creative connections.
Follow collaborators through their work and the real places tied to it.
Kirsten Dunst ↗︎
Kirsten Dunst is an American actress. Born on 30 April 1982, this profile follows Kirsten Dunst through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Spider-Man (2002). The location trail reaches Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and Greystone Mansion. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Willem Dafoe ↗︎
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James Franco ↗︎
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Elizabeth Banks ↗︎
Elizabeth Banks is an American actress and director. Born on 10 February 1974, this profile follows Elizabeth Banks through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Spider-Man (2002), Seabiscuit (2003) and Spider-Man 3 (2007). The location trail reaches Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Greystone Mansion and Rosenheim Mansion. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
J. K. Simmons ↗︎
J. K. Simmons is an American actor. Born on 9 January 1955, this profile follows J. K. Simmons through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 3 (2007) and La La Land (2016). The location trail reaches Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Greystone Mansion and Alexandria Hotel. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Thomas Haden Church ↗︎
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor. Born on 17 June 1960, this profile follows Thomas Haden Church through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Spider-Man 3 (2007). The location trail reaches Alexandria Hotel. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.