David Nunn
David Nunn was a British actor perhaps best known for playing the Messenger in The Black Adder in 1983. Nunn attended Clissold Park School in Hackney. His television appearances included Gang Member in Shades of Greene (1975), himself in Fun Food Factory (1976), Mark Valenta in A Place to Hide (1976), Headmaster (1977), Sid in Television Club (1978), Graham's Gang (1977–79), Charlie in Maggie and Her (1979), Tim in Metal Mickey (1981), Brookdale Boy in Grange Hill (1981), Kid in Educating Marmalade (1982), Messenger in The Black Adder (1983), Joe in The Pickwick Papers (1985), Apprentice in Mister Corbett's Ghost (1987), Enormous Orphan in Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988) and Starting Out (1989). When his acting career dried up he began to train as a taxi-driver in London before becoming a van driver in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire. After a period as a driving instructor from 2004, Nunn was an ambulance transport driver from 2006/7[5] until his death in 2012 of a heart attack aged 49 at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage.
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Enormous OrphanAfter a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous...
Movie pageMr. Corbett's Ghost
as ApprenticeMr Corbett is a cruel employer to Ben Partridge. One night on New Years Eve Ben is sent out to...
Movie pageGrange Hill
as Brookdale BoyChildren's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill...
TV Show pageBlackadder
as MessengerBlack Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders...
TV Show pageBig Deal
as StallholderThe ups and downs of small time London gambler Robby Box, and the effect that his poker...
TV Show pageEducating Marmalade
as School KidMarmalade Atkins is the naughtiest girl in the world. In fact, she's so wicked that her parents...
TV Show pageThe Pickwick Papers
as JoeMr Pickwick, Tupman, Winkle, Snodgrass and Sam Weller begin their travels through the England of...
TV Show pageGraham's Gang
as ArthurGraham's Gang is a British children's comedy first broadcast by the BBC in 1977 and 1979. The...
TV Show pageMetal Mickey
as TimScientific whizkid Ken Wilberforce thought a robot would be a help around the house, so he built...
TV Show pageMurphy's Mob
as JumboMac Murphy takes charge as manager of a struggling fictional Third Division football club,...
TV Show pageHeadmaster
as SimonDrama series about the efforts of a traditional British school headmaster to adapt to the...
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