Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#29046
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Clayton Landey represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 37 years in, and Clayton is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Clayton Landey appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Clayton. Sully 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 mystery, adventure, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Michael Cristofer, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Clint Eastwood and others, Clayton Landey 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.
Sully (2016) as Arnie Gentile · The Great Lillian Hall (2024) as Alvin Williams · Trouble with the Curve (2012) as Manager
Career snapshot
Ranked #29046 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1987–2024
Career length
37 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Sully
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Sully
Most frequent director
Chuck Russell
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Chuck Russell
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
2010s
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Sully, Trouble with the Curve — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
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. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.
Most productive era
1990s
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 | — | 6.72 films | 7.12 films | 7.01 film |
| Action | — | 5.92 films | — | — |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | 6.31 film | — | 4.61 film |
| Comedy | — | 5.51 film | — | — |
| Romance | — | — | 7.01 film | — |
| Horror | 6.71 film | — | — | 4.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1987A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lorenzo.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016Sully
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
The current state of the argument, as Alvin Williams.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Arnie Gentile
Directed by Clint Eastwood
as Alvin Williams
Directed by Michael Cristofer
as Lorenzo
Directed by Chuck Russell
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
Arnie Gentile
Sully (2016)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Arnie Gentile gives Clayton Landey a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Alvin Williams
The Great Lillian Hall (2024)
Performance score6.9
The Great Lillian Hall asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alvin Williams is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Manager
Trouble with the Curve (2012)
Performance score6.9
Trouble with the Curve asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Manager is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shep Sheppard
Pump Up the Volume (1990)
Performance score6.7
Pump Up the Volume asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shep Sheppard 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 Arnie Gentile
Start here. Sully is the clearest statement of what Clayton Landey does — accessible, 96 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Clayton 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.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
A deliberate change of key after Sully — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Pump Up the Volume (1990)
A deliberate change of key after A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Trouble with the Curve (2012)
Keeps the drama register of Pump Up the Volume but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Great Lillian Hall (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Trouble with the Curve but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Chuck Russell
Director
2 films together
Notably A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Allan Moyle
Director
1 film together
Notably Pump Up the Volume
Rachel Talalay
Director
1 film together
Notably Tank Girl
Steven Zaillian
Director
1 film together
Notably A Civil Action
Robert Lorenz
Director
1 film together
Notably Trouble with the Curve
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Sully
Gigi Saul Guerrero
Director
1 film together
Notably Bingo Hell
Michael Cristofer
Director
1 film together
Notably The Great Lillian Hall
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Chuck Russell
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream WarriorsClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SullyMichael Cristofer
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Great Lillian HallRobert Lorenz
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trouble with the CurveAllan Moyle
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pump Up the VolumeSteven Zaillian
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Civil ActionRachel Talalay
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tank GirlGigi Saul Guerrero
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bingo HellSix 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 Great Lillian Hall
as Alvin Williams
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Trouble with the Curve
as Manager
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Sully
as Arnie Gentile
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Eraser
as WitSec Agent
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Sully
as Arnie Gentile
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. Clayton Landey 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
37 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.
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 Great Lillian Hall
as Alvin Williams
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
as Lorenzo
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Trouble with the Curve
as Manager
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Great Lillian Hall
as Alvin Williams
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Great Lillian Hall
as Alvin Williams
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Tank Girl
as Guard at Front Entrance
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Pump Up the Volume
as Shep Sheppard
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Eraser
as WitSec Agent
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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