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Do the Right Thing (1989) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
- Helen Armitage
- Mookie – Spike Lee. Mookie is a young black man who delivers pizzas for Sal’s Famous Pizzeria and tries to soothe tensions between his black friends and Italian American employer until things finally reach boiling point.
- Sal – Danny Aiello. Sal is the brash owner of the pizzeria Mookie works at which he’s owned for 25 years and runs with his sons. Danny Aiello (Jacob's Ladder) received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.
- Buggin’ Out – Giancarlo Esposito. Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad) plays Buggin’ Out – a friend of Mookie who stages a boycott against Sal’s pizzeria after he notices there are no black people on the eatery’s wall of fame even though it’s in a black neighborhood.
- Radio Raheem – Bill Nunn. Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn) is a neighborhood resident who is never seen without his boombox which is constantly blasting Public Enemy’s ‘Fight The Power.'
Do the Right Thing: Directed by Spike Lee. With Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson. On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
- (114K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Spike Lee
- 1989-07-21
This is a list of the characters in the film Do the Right Thing and the actors who play them. John Turturro as Pino, another one of Sal's sons. He is not happy about being one of the last Italians in the neighborhood, nor about his brother's interracial friendship.
- Overview
- Background
- Plot and characters
- Reception and legacy
Do the Right Thing, comedy-drama film, released in 1989, that focuses on the racial tensions in a neighborhood in New York City as they come to a head on the hottest day of the year. The acclaimed yet controversial film was written and directed by Spike Lee and was nominated for two Academy Awards. It is included on the American Film Institute’s li...
Do the Right Thing is Spike Lee’s third feature-length film, following the romantic comedy She’s Gotta Have It (1986) and the comedy musical School Daze (1988). Though Do the Right Thing also has moments of humor, it reaches a tragic climax involving the killing of a young Black man by a white police officer. In writing the film, Lee was inspired by the deaths of several Black citizens in New York City in the 1970s and ’80s. One particularly notorious incident of racial violence resulted in the death of Michael Griffith, who was killed at Howard Beach in Queens in 1986. Griffith and two friends had been seeking help at a pizzeria in a predominantly Italian American neighborhood after their car broke down one night, and they were ambushed by a group of white teenagers. While trying to escape the mob, Griffith was chased out onto a highway and killed by an oncoming car.
Another incident of racial violence that inspired the film was the 1983 death of Michael Stewart, a young graffiti artist who had been arrested after “tagging” a subway wall. Witnesses to his arrest later said that he had been beaten and choked by police officers, first outside the subway station and then outside the police station where he had been taken. Next the police delivered him to a hospital, where he was observed to be comatose. Stewart died there 13 days later, having never awakened from his coma. (See also police brutality in the United States.)
Cast
•Danny Aiello (Sal)
•Ossie Davis (Da Mayor)
•Ruby Dee (Mother Sister)
•Richard Edson (Vito)
•Giancarlo Esposito (Buggin Out)
Production credits and notes
•Studio: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
•Director and screenplay: Spike Lee
•Music: Bill Lee
•Cinematography: Ernest R. Dickerson
•Editing: Barry Alexander Brown
Screenplay. 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.
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Jun 27, 2014 · More than two decades later, let’s catch up with the cast and count how many actors have appeared in multiple Spike Lee joints.
