Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3866
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Dane Rhodes 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.
Dane Rhodes appears in 29 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Dane. Green Book is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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 western, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Olivia Newman, Fisher Stevens, John Schneider and others, Dane Rhodes 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.
Green Book (2018) as Police Chief · Django Unchained (2012) as Tennessee Redfish · Palmer (2021) as Coles Senior
Career snapshot
Ranked #3866 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
29
2004–2024
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Green Book
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Green Book
Most frequent director
Jay Roach
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jay Roach
Most common genre
Drama
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
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
6.2
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
2000s
6.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Déjà Vu, A Love Song for Bobby Long — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.6
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. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Déjà Vu, A Love Song for Bobby Long.
Most productive era
2010s
17 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 | 6.52 films | 6.810 films | 5.13 films |
| Action | 6.91 film | 6.17 films | 6.41 film |
| Thriller | 6.91 film | 5.56 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.74 films | 0.02 films |
| Crime | 6.21 film | 6.13 films | 6.41 film |
| Romance | — | 6.41 film | 7.51 film |
| Horror | — | 4.82 films | 4.03 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004A Love Song for Bobby Long
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Cecil.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2012Django Unchained
8.4 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
2024Last Flamingo of the Red Summer Sunset
The current state of the argument, as Reginald.
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.
29 of 29 films
as Police Chief
Directed by Peter Farrelly
as Tennessee Redfish
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Judge Sims
Directed by Olivia Newman
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The defining work
#1
Police Chief
Green Book (2018)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Police Chief gives Dane Rhodes a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tennessee Redfish
Django Unchained (2012)
Performance score8.1
Django Unchained asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tennessee Redfish is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Coles Senior
Palmer (2021)
Performance score7.6
Palmer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Coles Senior is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Judge Sims
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
Performance score7.3
Where the Crawdads Sing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Judge Sims 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 Police Chief
Start here. Green Book is the clearest statement of what Dane Rhodes does — accessible, 130 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Dane 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.
Django Unchained (2012)
Keeps the drama register of Green Book but asks for a colder reading of it.
Trumbo (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Django Unchained but asks for a colder reading of it.
Palmer (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Trumbo but asks for a colder reading of it.
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Palmer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jay Roach
Director
2 films together
Notably Trumbo
Tony Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Déjà Vu
Werner Herzog
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Glenn Ficarra
Director
1 film together
Notably I Love You Phillip Morris
Roger Donaldson
Director
1 film together
Notably Seeking Justice
Baltasar Kormákur
Director
1 film together
Notably Contraband
John Hyams
Director
1 film together
Notably Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
Walter Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably Bullet to the Head
Quentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together
Notably Django Unchained
Peter Segal
Director
1 film together
Notably Grudge Match
Thomas Carter
Director
1 film together
Notably When the Game Stands Tall
Gary Ross
Director
1 film together
Notably Free State of Jones
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably The Magnificent Seven
Peter Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Green Book
Henry Joost
Director
1 film together
Notably Project Power
John Schneider
Director
1 film together
Notably Stand On It!
Fisher Stevens
Director
1 film together
Notably Palmer
Olivia Newman
Director
1 film together
Notably Where the Crawdads Sing
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jay Roach
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
TrumboPeter Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Green BookQuentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Django UnchainedFisher Stevens
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PalmerOlivia Newman
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Where the Crawdads SingTony Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Déjà VuGary Ross
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Free State of JonesThomas Carter
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
When the Game Stands TallAntoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Magnificent SevenHenry Joost
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Project PowerBaltasar Kormákur
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ContrabandGlenn Ficarra
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Love You Phillip MorrisWerner Herzog
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New OrleansPeter Segal
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grudge MatchRoger Donaldson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Seeking JusticeWalter Hill
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bullet to the HeadJohn Hyams
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Universal Soldier: Day of ReckoningJohn Schneider
Director
1 film together · 1.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stand On It!Six 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
Green Book
as Police Chief
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Where the Crawdads Sing
as Judge Sims
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Django Unchained
as Tennessee Redfish
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
I Love You Phillip Morris
as Bald Prisoner
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Green Book
as Police Chief
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. Dane Rhodes 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
20 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
15 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
Django Unchained
as Tennessee Redfish
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Green Book
as Police Chief
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Where the Crawdads Sing
as Judge Sims
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Visitor
as Joseph Ellis
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Django Unchained
as Tennessee Redfish
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Magnificent Seven
as Sheriff Harp
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Green Book
as Police Chief
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Django Unchained
as Tennessee Redfish
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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