Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#26674
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Bradley Gregg represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 36 years in, and Bradley is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Bradley Gregg appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Bradley. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for war, action, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ole Bornedal, Rob Lieberman, Steven Spielberg and others, Bradley Gregg 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.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) as Roscoe · Stand by Me (1986) as Eyeball Chambers · Fire in the Sky (1993) as Bobby Cogdill
Career snapshot
Ranked #26674 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
1985–2021
Career length
36 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Most frequent director
Ole Bornedal
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ole Bornedal
Most common genre
Thriller
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.7
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
1980s
7.2 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Stand by Me — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
7.2
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
7.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Stand by Me.
Most productive era
1980s
4 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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.91 film | 6.42 films | — | — |
| Action | 8.01 film | — | 5.41 film | 5.91 film |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | 6.42 films | 5.41 film | 5.91 film |
| Comedy | — | — | 5.41 film | — |
| Horror | 6.71 film | 6.11 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1985Explorers
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Steve Jackson's Gang.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1989Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
8.0 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
2021Redemption Day
The current state of the argument, as Marine Commander Jones.
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.
8 of 8 films
as Eyeball Chambers
Directed by Rob Reiner
as Bobby Cogdill
Directed by Rob Lieberman
as Phillip
Directed by Chuck Russell
as Marine Commander Jones
Directed by Unknown
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
Roscoe
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Roscoe gives Bradley Gregg a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Eyeball Chambers
Stand by Me (1986)
Performance score7.7
Stand by Me asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Eyeball Chambers is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bobby Cogdill
Fire in the Sky (1993)
Performance score6.9
Fire in the Sky asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bobby Cogdill is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Phillip
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Performance score6.6
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Phillip 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 Roscoe
Start here. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the clearest statement of what Bradley Gregg does — accessible, 127 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Bradley 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.
Stand by Me (1986)
Keeps the adventure register of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
A deliberate change of key after Stand by Me — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Fire in the Sky (1993)
Keeps the thriller register of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors but asks for a colder reading of it.
Redemption Day (2021)
Keeps the thriller register of Fire in the Sky but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Joe Dante
Director
1 film together
Notably Explorers
Rob Reiner
Director
1 film together
Notably Stand by Me
Chuck Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Rob Lieberman
Director
1 film together
Notably Fire in the Sky
Ole Bornedal
Director
1 film together
Notably Nightwatch
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Indiana Jones and the Last CrusadeRob Reiner
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stand by MeRob Lieberman
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fire in the SkyChuck Russell
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream WarriorsJoe Dante
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ExplorersOle Bornedal
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NightwatchSix 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
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Roscoe
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Stand by Me
as Eyeball Chambers
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Roscoe
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Roscoe
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Roscoe
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. Bradley Gregg 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
36 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Roscoe
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Roscoe
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Stand by Me
as Eyeball Chambers
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Nightwatch
as Theater Actor (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Roscoe
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Roscoe
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Stand by Me
as Eyeball Chambers
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
as Roscoe
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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