Editing Bill Duke (section)

===Film===
Standing at an imposing {{convert|6|ft|4+1/2|in|2}} and with a closely shaved head, Duke first became a familiar face to moviegoers in ''[[Car Wash (film)|Car Wash]]'' (1976), where he portrayed fierce young [[Nation of Islam|Black Muslim]] revolutionary Abdullah Mohammed Akbar (formerly known as Duane).<ref name="thomas"/> He expanded his repertoire with ''[[American Gigolo]]'' (1980), where he played a [[homosexuality|gay]] pimp, who co-orchestrates a murder, pinned on star [[Richard Gere]].<ref name="metrograph">{{cite web |title=Bill Duke |url=http://metrograph.com/series/series/185/bill-duke |publisher=Metrograph |access-date=December 18, 2019 |archive-date=December 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221104553/http://metrograph.com/series/series/185/bill-duke |url-status=dead }}</ref>

As the action-film-oriented genre became more popular, Duke portrayed a string of tough guys. He worked opposite [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] with a small role in ''[[Commando (1985 film)|Commando]]''. Then he acted alongside Schwarzenegger, [[Carl Weathers]] and [[Jesse Ventura]] in the scifi action thriller ''[[Predator (film)|Predator]]'', followed by a role as a police chief in the 1988 [[Carl Weathers]] vehicle ''[[Action Jackson (1988 film)|Action Jackson]]''.<ref name="thomas"/> Duke appeared uncredited as a [[DEA]] officer in ''[[The Limey]]'' (1999), as well as a police chief opposite [[Steven Seagal]] in ''[[Exit Wounds]]''. In ''[[Menace II Society]]'' (1993), he played a police investigator who tricks the main character into contradicting himself during an interrogation, then tries to rattle him by repeating the line, "You done fucked up, you know that, don't you?"<ref>{{YouTube|K2v-8ctq5x4}}</ref> The line became often-quoted.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}} He played a corrupt law enforcement agent in two films opposite [[Mel Gibson]]—''[[Bird on a Wire (film)|Bird on a Wire]]'' (as an [[FBI]] agent) and ''[[Payback (1999 film)|Payback]]'' (as a police detective). Duke appeared as [[Bolivar Trask|Trask]] in ''[[X-Men: The Last Stand]]'', Washington in ''[[National Security (2003 film)|National Security]]'', Levar in ''[[Get Rich or Die Tryin' (film)|Get Rich or Die Tryin']]'', Nokes in ''[[Bad Country]]'' and Caruthers in ''[[Mandy (2018 film)|Mandy]]''.{{Citation needed|date=November 2019}}