Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#830
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Corey Burton represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 40 years in, and Corey is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Corey Burton appears in 33 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Corey. Mulan 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 animation, action, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Broni Likomanov, Matt Shakman, Randi Rodrigues and others, Corey Burton 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.
Mulan (1998) as Additional Voices (voice) · Toy Story 2 (1999) as Additional Voices (voice) · Aladdin (1992) as Additional Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #830 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
33
1986–2026
Career length
40 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Mulan
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Mulan
Most frequent director
John Musker
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With John Musker
Most common genre
Animation
26 titles
Average runtime
1h 24m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.8
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
1990s
7.6 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Toy Story 2, Mulan, Hercules — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.6
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.5
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. Spaceballs, Amazon Women on the Moon, The Transformers: The Movie.
Most productive era
2000s
10 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.21 film | 7.11 film | — | 7.41 film |
| Action | 7.01 film | — | 6.65 films | 6.43 films | 7.11 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.22 films | 5.61 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.42 films | 7.53 films | 6.12 films | 7.15 films | 7.14 films |
| Crime | — | — | — | 6.02 films | — |
| Romance | — | 7.53 films | 7.31 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.71 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1986The Transformers: The Movie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Spike / Brawn / Shockwave (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1998Mulan
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
The current state of the argument, as Professor Ludwig Von Drake (voice).
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.
33 of 33 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Tony Bancroft
as Captain Metropolis / Forbes / American Newscaster (voice)
Directed by Brandon Vietti
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by John Lasseter
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by John Musker
as Baron Basil (voice)
Directed by Paul McEvoy
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
Additional Voices (voice)
Mulan (1998)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Corey Burton a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Captain Metropolis / Forbes / American Newscaster (voice)
Watchmen: Chapter I (2024)
Performance score7.7
Watchmen: Chapter I asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Captain Metropolis / Forbes / American Newscaster (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Performance score7.6
Toy Story 2 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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Additional Voices (voice)
Aladdin (1992)
Performance score7.6
Aladdin 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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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Additional Voices (voice)
Start here. Mulan is the clearest statement of what Corey Burton does — accessible, 88 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Corey 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.
Aladdin (1992)
Keeps the adventure register of Mulan but asks for a colder reading of it.
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Keeps the family register of Aladdin but asks for a colder reading of it.
Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy (2014)
Keeps the comedy register of Toy Story 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Watchmen: Chapter I (2024)
Keeps the science fiction register of Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Musker
Director
4 films together
Notably Aladdin
Kirk Wise
Director
2 films together
Notably The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Robert Rodriguez
Director
2 films together
Notably Planet Terror
Brandon Vietti
Director
2 films together
Notably Watchmen: Chapter I
Nelson Shin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Transformers: The Movie
Robert K. Weiss
Director
1 film together
Notably Amazon Women on the Moon
Mel Brooks
Director
1 film together
Notably Spaceballs
Kevin Lima
Director
1 film together
Notably A Goofy Movie
Tony Bancroft
Director
1 film together
Notably Mulan
John Lasseter
Director
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 2
Rob Minkoff
Director
1 film together
Notably The Haunted Mansion
Bobs Gannaway
Director
1 film together
Notably Stitch! The Movie
Toby Shelton
Director
1 film together
Notably Atlantis: Milo's Return
Dave Bullock
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League: The New Frontier
Dave Filoni
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Joe Carnahan
Director
1 film together
Notably The A-Team
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Hotel Transylvania
Paul McEvoy
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy
Phil Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably Ralph Breaks the Internet
Dan Povenmire
Director
1 film together
Notably Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe
Jason Reicher
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wonderful Summer of Mickey Mouse
Akiva Schaffer
Director
1 film together
Notably Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Randi Rodrigues
Director
1 film together
Notably LEGO Disney Princess: Villains Unite
Matt Shakman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fantastic 4: First Steps
Broni Likomanov
Director
1 film together
Notably Mickey's Country Farm
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
John Musker
Director
4 films together · 7.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
AladdinBrandon Vietti
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Watchmen: Chapter IKirk Wise
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Hunchback of Notre DameRobert Rodriguez
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Planet TerrorTony Bancroft
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MulanJohn Lasseter
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Toy Story 2Paul McEvoy
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! FrankencreepyRandi Rodrigues
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LEGO Disney Princess: Villains UniteDan Povenmire
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the UniversePhil Johnston
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ralph Breaks the InternetMatt Shakman
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fantastic 4: First StepsSam Liu
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman/Batman: Public EnemiesAkiva Schaffer
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue RangersJason Reicher
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 Wonderful Summer of Mickey MouseGenndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hotel TransylvaniaKevin Lima
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Goofy MovieNelson Shin
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 Transformers: The MovieMel Brooks
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SpaceballsDave Bullock
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League: The New FrontierJoe Carnahan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The A-TeamBobs Gannaway
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stitch! The MovieToby Shelton
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Atlantis: Milo's ReturnDave Filoni
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars: The Clone WarsRobert K. Weiss
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Amazon Women on the MoonRob Minkoff
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Haunted MansionBroni Likomanov
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mickey's Country FarmSix 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
Mulan
as Additional Voices (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Mulan
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
Mulan
as Additional Voices (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The A-Team
as Narrator (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mulan
as Additional Voices (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. Corey Burton 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
40 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
26 catalogue titles in animation, 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
Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy
as Baron Basil (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy
as Baron Basil (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Princess and the Frog
as Mr. Harvey Fenner (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Haunted Mansion
as Ghost Host (voice) (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mulan
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
as Ted Gilbert Announcer (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Hercules
as Burnt Man (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Toy Story 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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