Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12448
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Dan Bittner works on quiet performance rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Dan Bittner appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Dan. The Wolf of Wall Street is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, history, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Michael Almereyda, Steven Spielberg, Tom Gormican and others, Dan Bittner 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 Wolf of Wall Street (2013) as Rothschild Broker #1 · Law Abiding Citizen (2009) as Sereno · The Post (2017) as Government Lawyer
Career snapshot
Ranked #12448 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2005–2020
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
The Wolf of Wall Street
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
The Wolf of Wall Street
Most frequent director
Michael Almereyda
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Michael Almereyda
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 58m
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
6.4
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
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Brittany Runs a Marathon, The Post, That Awkward Moment — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
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. Law Abiding Citizen, Adventureland, The Producers.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.92 films | 7.33 films | 5.81 film |
| Thriller | 7.41 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.32 films | 7.03 films | — |
| Crime | 7.41 film | 8.31 film | — |
| Romance | 6.41 film | 6.11 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005The Producers
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Stormtrooper.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.3 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
2020Tesla
The current state of the argument, as Fred Ott.
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 Rothschild Broker #1
Directed by Martin Scorsese
as Sereno
Directed by F. Gary Gray
as Government Lawyer
Directed by Steven Spielberg
as Fred Ott
Directed by Michael Almereyda
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
Rothschild Broker #1
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Rothschild Broker #1 gives Dan Bittner a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Sereno
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Performance score7.2
Law Abiding Citizen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sereno is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Government Lawyer
The Post (2017)
Performance score6.9
The Post asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Government Lawyer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Terrence
Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)
Performance score6.6
Brittany Runs a Marathon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Terrence 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 Rothschild Broker #1
Start here. The Wolf of Wall Street is the clearest statement of what Dan Bittner does — accessible, 180 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Dan 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.
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Keeps the crime register of The Wolf of Wall Street but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Post (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Law Abiding Citizen but asks for a colder reading of it.
Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)
Keeps the drama register of The Post but asks for a colder reading of it.
Tesla (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Brittany Runs a Marathon but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Susan Stroman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Producers
Greg Mottola
Director
1 film together
Notably Adventureland
F. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together
Notably Law Abiding Citizen
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wolf of Wall Street
Tom Gormican
Director
1 film together
Notably That Awkward Moment
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Post
Michael Almereyda
Director
1 film together
Notably Tesla
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wolf of Wall StreetF. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Law Abiding CitizenSteven Spielberg
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 PostGreg Mottola
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AdventurelandSusan Stroman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ProducersTom Gormican
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
That Awkward MomentMichael Almereyda
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TeslaSix 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 Wolf of Wall Street
as Rothschild Broker #1
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Post
as Government Lawyer
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 Wolf of Wall Street
as Rothschild Broker #1
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Rothschild Broker #1
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Rothschild Broker #1
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. Dan Bittner 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
6 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 Wolf of Wall Street
as Rothschild Broker #1
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Rothschild Broker #1
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Post
as Government Lawyer
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Law Abiding Citizen
as Sereno
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Rothschild Broker #1
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Rothschild Broker #1
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Rothschild Broker #1
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Rothschild Broker #1
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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