Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8659
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Dana Snyder works on versatility 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.
Dana Snyder appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Dana. Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost 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 comedy, animation, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Trevor Kirschner, Dave Cunningham, Christopher McCulloch and others, Dana Snyder 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.
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost (2018) as Skip Taylor (voice) · The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart (2023) as The Alchemist / Conductor / Houseless Guy (voice) · The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe Special (2023) as GrandPat Star
Career snapshot
Ranked #8659 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2015–2026
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
Most frequent director
Trevor Kirschner
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Trevor Kirschner
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 1m
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
6.1
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost, Hell and Back — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost, Hell and Back.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 3.51 film |
| Action | — | 6.13 films |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | 5.17 films |
| Horror | — | 4.62 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2015Hell and Back
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Garthog (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
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
2026The Robot Chicken [adult swim] 25th Anniversary Special
The current state of the argument, as Master Shake (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.
11 of 11 films
as Skip Taylor (voice)
Directed by Doug Murphy
as The Alchemist / Conductor / Houseless Guy (voice)
Directed by Christopher McCulloch
as Graballa the Hutt (voice)
Directed by Ken Cunningham
as GrandPat Star
Directed by Dave Cunningham
as Master Shake (voice)
Directed by Dave Willis
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
Skip Taylor (voice)
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost (2018)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Skip Taylor (voice) gives Dana Snyder a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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The Alchemist / Conductor / Houseless Guy (voice)
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart (2023)
Performance score7.2
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The Alchemist / Conductor / Houseless Guy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Graballa the Hutt (voice)
LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales (2021)
Performance score7.2
LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Graballa the Hutt (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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GrandPat Star
The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe Special (2023)
Performance score7.0
The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe Special asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. GrandPat Star 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 Skip Taylor (voice)
Start here. Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost is the clearest statement of what Dana Snyder does — accessible, 77 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Dana 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.
LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost but asks for a colder reading of it.
Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm (2022)
Keeps the science fiction register of LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart (2023)
Keeps the science fiction register of Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe Special (2023)
Keeps the adventure register of The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ross Shuman
Director
1 film together
Notably Hell and Back
Doug Murphy
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
Ken Cunningham
Director
1 film together
Notably LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales
Dave Willis
Director
1 film together
Notably Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm
Jason Shwartz
Director
1 film together
Notably Pastacolypse
Christopher McCulloch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
Dave Cunningham
Director
1 film together
Notably The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe Special
Trevor Kirschner
Director
1 film together
Notably The Thundermans Return
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Doug Murphy
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet GhostChristopher McCulloch
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon HeartDave Cunningham
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 Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe SpecialTrevor Kirschner
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 Thundermans ReturnKen Cunningham
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LEGO Star Wars Terrifying TalesDave Willis
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Aqua Teen Forever: PlantasmJason Shwartz
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PastacolypseRoss Shuman
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hell and BackSix 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
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Skip Taylor (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
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Skip Taylor (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
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Skip Taylor (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
as The Alchemist / Conductor / Houseless Guy (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Skip Taylor (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. Dana Snyder 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
9 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
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Skip Taylor (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Skip Taylor (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Skip Taylor (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hell and Back
as Garthog (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
as The Alchemist / Conductor / Houseless Guy (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
as The Alchemist / Conductor / Houseless Guy (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Skip Taylor (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Herd
as Louie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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