Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10120
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Angus MacInnes represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 41 years in, and Angus is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Angus MacInnes appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Angus. Star Wars is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Gareth Edwards, Paul Greengrass, John Maybury and others, Angus MacInnes helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Star Wars (1977) as Gold Leader · Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) as Gold Leader (voice) · Captain Phillips (2013) as Maersk Alabama Crew
Career snapshot
Ranked #10120 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
1975–2016
Career length
41 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
Star Wars
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Star Wars
Most frequent director
Gareth Edwards
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Gareth Edwards
Most common genre
Action
8 titles
Average runtime
2h 1m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
7.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Captain Phillips — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.7
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Force 10 from Navarone, Star Wars, Rollerball.
Most productive era
1970s
3 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.31 film | 7.01 film | 7.61 film | 6.72 films | 7.61 film |
| Action | 7.42 films | 6.62 films | 6.11 film | 6.81 film | 7.72 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.72 films | 7.61 film | 6.72 films | 7.61 film |
| Crime | — | 6.72 films | — | — | — |
| Romance | — | — | — | 6.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1975Rollerball
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jonathan's Guard.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1977Star Wars
8.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2016Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The current state of the argument, as Gold Leader (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
13 of 13 films
as Gold Leader
Directed by George Lucas
as Gold Leader (voice)
Directed by Gareth Edwards
as Maersk Alabama Crew
Directed by Paul Greengrass
as Gateman #1
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
as Fergie
Directed by Peter Weir
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Gold Leader
Star Wars (1977)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Gold Leader gives Angus MacInnes a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gold Leader (voice)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Performance score7.5
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gold Leader (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Maersk Alabama Crew
Captain Phillips (2013)
Performance score7.4
Captain Phillips asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Maersk Alabama Crew is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gateman #1
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Performance score7.4
Eyes Wide Shut asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gateman #1 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Gold Leader
Start here. Star Wars is the clearest statement of what Angus MacInnes does — accessible, 121 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Angus at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Witness (1985)
A deliberate change of key after Star Wars — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Keeps the drama register of Witness but asks for a colder reading of it.
Captain Phillips (2013)
Keeps the drama register of Eyes Wide Shut but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Keeps the action register of Captain Phillips but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Norman Jewison
Director
1 film together
Notably Rollerball
George Lucas
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars
Guy Hamilton
Director
1 film together
Notably Force 10 from Navarone
Richard Lester
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman II
Peter Hyams
Director
1 film together
Notably Outland
Peter Weir
Director
1 film together
Notably Witness
Danny Cannon
Director
1 film together
Notably Judge Dredd
Stanley Kubrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Eyes Wide Shut
Michael Apted
Director
1 film together
Notably Enigma
Guillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together
Notably Hellboy
John Maybury
Director
1 film together
Notably The Jacket
Paul Greengrass
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain Phillips
Gareth Edwards
Director
1 film together
Notably Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
George Lucas
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star WarsGareth Edwards
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rogue One: A Star Wars StoryPaul Greengrass
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain PhillipsStanley Kubrick
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eyes Wide ShutPeter Weir
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WitnessJohn Maybury
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The JacketGuillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HellboyRichard Lester
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman IIMichael Apted
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EnigmaPeter Hyams
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OutlandGuy Hamilton
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Force 10 from NavaroneNorman Jewison
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RollerballDanny Cannon
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Judge DreddSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Star Wars
as Gold Leader
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Enigma
as Commander Hammerbeck
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Star Wars
as Gold Leader
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Gold Leader (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Star Wars
as Gold Leader
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Angus MacInnes has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
41 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Action Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in action, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Star Wars
as Gold Leader
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Star Wars
as Gold Leader
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Enigma
as Commander Hammerbeck
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Jacket
as Judge
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Star Wars
as Gold Leader
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Outland
as Hughes
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Witness
as Fergie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Star Wars
as Gold Leader
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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