Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6474
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Chris Titone is the performer our scores keep defending against the popular vote — a career of films that get better the further you stand from their release week.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Chris Titone appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Chris. Leo is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 romance, comedy, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tyler Spindel, Kyle Newacheck, David Wachtenheim and others, Chris Titone 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.
Leo (2023) as Summer's Dad / Alligator #2 / Stopwatch #1 (voice) · Hotel Transylvania (2012) as Additional Voices (voice) · Blended (2014) as Umpire
Career snapshot
Ranked #6474 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
2008–2025
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Leo
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Leo
Most frequent director
Tyler Spindel
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Tyler Spindel
Most common genre
Comedy
20 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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
6.3
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
6.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Kinda Pregnant, Happy Gilmore 2, Drugstore June — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.3
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
5.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The House Bunny.
Most productive era
2010s
11 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.11 film | 6.61 film |
| Action | — | 5.84 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.01 film | 6.011 films | 6.38 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.11 film |
| Romance | 6.01 film | 7.01 film | 6.22 films |
| Horror | — | — | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008The House Bunny
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Guy at Bar.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Leo
7.2 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
2025Happy Gilmore 2
The current state of the argument, as Repo Man.
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.
20 of 20 films
as Summer's Dad / Alligator #2 / Stopwatch #1 (voice)
Directed by David Wachtenheim
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
as Umpire
Directed by Frank Coraci
as Repo Man
Directed by Kyle Newacheck
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
Summer's Dad / Alligator #2 / Stopwatch #1 (voice)
Leo (2023)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Summer's Dad / Alligator #2 / Stopwatch #1 (voice) gives Chris Titone a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Performance score7.0
Hotel Transylvania asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Umpire
Blended (2014)
Performance score6.9
Blended asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Umpire is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Repo Man
Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)
Performance score6.6
Happy Gilmore 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Repo Man 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 Summer's Dad / Alligator #2 / Stopwatch #1 (voice)
Start here. Leo is the clearest statement of what Chris Titone does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Chris 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.
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Keeps the comedy register of Leo but asks for a colder reading of it.
Blended (2014)
Keeps the comedy register of Hotel Transylvania but asks for a colder reading of it.
Home Team (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Blended but asks for a colder reading of it.
Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Home Team but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tyler Spindel
Director
3 films together
Notably The Wrong Missy
Dennis Dugan
Director
2 films together
Notably Grown Ups 2
Frank Coraci
Director
2 films together
Notably Blended
Steven Brill
Director
2 films together
Notably Hubie Halloween
Fred Wolf
Director
1 film together
Notably The House Bunny
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Hotel Transylvania
Tom McCarthy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cobbler
Andy Fickman
Director
1 film together
Notably Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together
Notably Pixels
Robert Smigel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Week Of
David Wachtenheim
Director
1 film together
Notably Leo
Kyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together
Notably Happy Gilmore 2
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tyler Spindel
Director
3 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Wrong MissyFrank Coraci
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BlendedSteven Brill
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Hubie HalloweenDennis Dugan
Director
2 films together · 5.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Grown Ups 2David Wachtenheim
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LeoGenndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hotel TransylvaniaKyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Happy Gilmore 2Tom McCarthy
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CobblerChris Columbus
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PixelsFred Wolf
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The House BunnyRobert Smigel
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Week OfAndy Fickman
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2Six 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
Blended
as Umpire
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Hotel Transylvania
as Additional Voices (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Leo
as Summer's Dad / Alligator #2 / Stopwatch #1 (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Happy Gilmore 2
as Repo Man
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Leo
as Summer's Dad / Alligator #2 / Stopwatch #1 (voice)
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. Chris Titone 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.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
20 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Hotel Transylvania
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hubie Halloween
as Ghoul
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Hotel Transylvania
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Drugstore June
as Doctor
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Do-Over
as Musty Swamp Bartender
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Ridiculous 6
as Beefer
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Hotel Transylvania
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Deported
as Business Man #2
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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