Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#52710
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Charles David Richards represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 31 years in, and Charles is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Charles David Richards appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Charles. The Marksman is the clearest case: a film rated 6.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, transformation, versatility. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Robert Lorenz, Scott Cooper, Björn Stein and others, Charles David Richards 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 Marksman (2021) as Gun Store Owner · Out of the Furnace (2013) as Chaplain · Predator 2 (1990) as Commuter
Career snapshot
Ranked #52710 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1990–2021
Career length
31 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
The Marksman
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.8
The Marksman
Most frequent director
Robert Lorenz
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Robert Lorenz
Most common genre
Thriller
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
6.6
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
2020s
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Marksman — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Unlawful Entry, Predator 2.
Most productive era
1990s
2 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 | 1990s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.61 film | 6.81 film |
| Action | 6.51 film | — | 6.81 film |
| Thriller | 6.42 films | 6.32 films | 6.81 film |
| Crime | — | 6.61 film | — |
| Horror | — | 6.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1990Predator 2
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Commuter.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2021The Marksman
6.8 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 Gun Store Owner.
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 Gun Store Owner
Directed by Robert Lorenz
as Chaplain
Directed by Scott Cooper
as Holiday Inn Bar Keep
Directed by Björn Stein
as Bailiff
Directed by Jonathan Kaplan
as Commuter
Directed by Stephen Hopkins
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
Gun Store Owner
The Marksman (2021)
Performance score6.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Gun Store Owner gives Charles David Richards a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Chaplain
Out of the Furnace (2013)
Performance score6.6
Out of the Furnace asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chaplain is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Holiday Inn Bar Keep
6 Souls (2010)
Performance score6.5
6 Souls asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Holiday Inn Bar Keep is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bailiff
Unlawful Entry (1992)
Performance score6.5
Unlawful Entry asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bailiff 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 Gun Store Owner
Start here. The Marksman is the clearest statement of what Charles David Richards does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Charles 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.
Predator 2 (1990)
Keeps the action register of The Marksman but asks for a colder reading of it.
Unlawful Entry (1992)
Keeps the thriller register of Predator 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
6 Souls (2010)
Keeps the mystery register of Unlawful Entry but asks for a colder reading of it.
Out of the Furnace (2013)
Keeps the thriller register of 6 Souls but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Stephen Hopkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Predator 2
Jonathan Kaplan
Director
1 film together
Notably Unlawful Entry
Björn Stein
Director
1 film together
Notably 6 Souls
Scott Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Out of the Furnace
Robert Lorenz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Marksman
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Robert Lorenz
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MarksmanScott Cooper
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Out of the FurnaceStephen Hopkins
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Predator 2Jonathan Kaplan
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Unlawful EntryBjörn Stein
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
6 SoulsSix 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 Marksman
as Gun Store Owner
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Out of the Furnace
as Chaplain
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 Marksman
as Gun Store Owner
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Marksman
as Gun Store Owner
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Marksman
as Gun Store Owner
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. Charles David Richards 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
31 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
Unlawful Entry
as Bailiff
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Out of the Furnace
as Chaplain
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Out of the Furnace
as Chaplain
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Unlawful Entry
as Bailiff
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Marksman
as Gun Store Owner
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Marksman
as Gun Store Owner
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Out of the Furnace
as Chaplain
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Predator 2
as Commuter
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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