Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#52491
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Bill Moor works on quiet performance rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Bill Moor appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Bill. The Devil's Advocate is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, horror, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Taylor Hackford, Robert Redford, Roger Donaldson and others, Bill Moor 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.
The Devil's Advocate (1997) as Florida Judge · Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) as Gressen · Quiz Show (1994) as Congressman Rogers
Career snapshot
Ranked #52491 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1979–1997
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
The Devil's Advocate
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Kramer vs. Kramer
Most frequent director
Taylor Hackford
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Taylor Hackford
Most common genre
Drama
5 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
6.8
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
6.5
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
1970s
7.4 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. Kramer vs. Kramer — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
7.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
7.6
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. Kramer vs. Kramer.
Most productive era
1990s
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.41 film | 6.21 film | 6.83 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.21 film | 5.81 film |
| Crime | — | — | 5.81 film |
| Romance | — | 6.21 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | 7.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gressen.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
7.6 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. The current state of the argument, as Florida Judge.
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.
5 of 5 films
as Florida Judge
Directed by Taylor Hackford
as Congressman Rogers
Directed by Robert Redford
as Louie
Directed by Roger Donaldson
as Mr. Lilly
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
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
Florida Judge
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Florida Judge gives Bill Moor a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gressen
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Performance score7.2
Kramer vs. Kramer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gressen is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Congressman Rogers
Quiz Show (1994)
Performance score6.9
Quiz Show asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Congressman Rogers is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Louie
Cadillac Man (1990)
Performance score6.5
Cadillac Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Louie 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 Florida Judge
Start here. The Devil's Advocate is the clearest statement of what Bill Moor does — accessible, 144 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Bill 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.
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Keeps the drama register of The Devil's Advocate but asks for a colder reading of it.
New York Stories (1989)
Keeps the drama register of Kramer vs. Kramer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cadillac Man (1990)
Keeps the comedy register of New York Stories but asks for a colder reading of it.
Quiz Show (1994)
Keeps the drama register of Cadillac Man but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Robert Benton
Director
1 film together
Notably Kramer vs. Kramer
Francis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably New York Stories
Roger Donaldson
Director
1 film together
Notably Cadillac Man
Robert Redford
Director
1 film together
Notably Quiz Show
Taylor Hackford
Director
1 film together
Notably The Devil's Advocate
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Taylor Hackford
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Devil's AdvocateRobert Benton
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kramer vs. KramerRobert Redford
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Quiz ShowFrancis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
New York StoriesRoger Donaldson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cadillac ManSix 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
The Devil's Advocate
as Florida Judge
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Quiz Show
as Congressman Rogers
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Devil's Advocate
as Florida Judge
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Quiz Show
as Congressman Rogers
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Devil's Advocate
as Florida Judge
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. Bill Moor 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in drama, 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
The Devil's Advocate
as Florida Judge
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Devil's Advocate
as Florida Judge
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Quiz Show
as Congressman Rogers
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Devil's Advocate
as Florida Judge
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Devil's Advocate
as Florida Judge
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Devil's Advocate
as Florida Judge
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
New York Stories
as Mr. Lilly
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Devil's Advocate
as Florida Judge
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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