- He was nominated for the 1972 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in "The Royal Family" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was awarded the 2011 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "Broadway Bound" at the Drury Lane Oakbrook Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was nominated for a 1974 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Principal Role for his performance in Joe Orton's play, "Loot," at the Candlelight Forum Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was nominated for a 1974 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Principal Role for his performance in Sir Tom Stoppard's play, "The Real Inspector Hound," at the Candlelight Forum Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was nominated for a 1975 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Principal Role for his performance in Neil Simon's play, "The Good Doctor" at the Candelight Forum Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. (1975)
- He was nominated for a 1974 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Principal Role for his performance in the play, "Forty Years On," at the Candelight Forum Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was nominated for a 1975 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Director of a Play for "Under Milkwood," at the Orphans Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. (1975)
- He was nominated for a 1992 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Play for "The Belmont Avenue Social Club" at the Northlight Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was awarded the 1997 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Racing Demon" at the Organic Touchstone Company in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was nominated for a 2000 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Visiting Mr. Green" at the Northlight Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was nominated for a 2004 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Tuesdays with Morrie" at the Northlight Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was awarded the 2014 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Supporting Actor in a Play for "Smokefall" at the Goodman Theatre and South Coast Repertory Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was awarded the 2016 Joseph Jefferson (Equity) Award for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "The Price" at the TimeLine Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was nominated for a 2017 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Principal Actor in a Play for "Relativity" at the Northlight Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was awarded the 1978 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Play for "Lunching" at the Body Politic Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was nominated for a 1978 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Play for "Uncommon Women and Others" at the St. Nicholas Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois.
- Before becoming a full-time actor, he was an exterminator.
- He got into acting after receiving rave reviews for playing Pecos Bill in a PTA play at his child's school. The nonprofessional community theaters in the area heard about him. Since there were few men in community theater, he became a sought-after commodity. He eventually became a full-time professional actor in his mid-40s.
- His Army assignments included being chief of the message center for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in which role he dispatched the official notification of Germany's surrender.
- For 20 years, he worked with his brother-in-law in an extermination business.
- Nussbaum continued to act through his 90s, and he was still working on theatre projects up until his death in 2023.
- He also did national commercials for United Airlines and Scope mouthwash.
- In the 1960s, he was active in a developing professional theatrical community in Chicago, meeting a young David Mamet in the process.
- Nussbaum also appeared in local TV commercials for Chicago's Northwest Federal Savings[5] (with the jingle, "It's Northwest Federal Savings time, sixty-three hours a week").
- As a director, his work has included Where Have You Gone, Jimmy Stewart? (2002) by Art Shay.
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