Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7956
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Danny Webb represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 37 years in, and Danny is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Danny Webb appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Danny. Valkyrie is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 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 drama, history, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Helen Walsh, Mark Greenstreet, Jonathan Teplitzky and others, Danny Webb 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.
Valkyrie (2008) as Captain Haans · Locke (2014) as Cassidy (voice) · Henry V (1989) as Gower
Career snapshot
Ranked #7956 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
1989–2026
Career length
37 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Valkyrie
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.1
Henry V
Most frequent director
Steven Knight
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Steven Knight
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 54m
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
6.5
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
1980s
6.9 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. Henry V — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
6.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
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. Henry V.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | 6.91 film | 5.81 film | 6.72 films | 6.53 films | 4.43 films |
| Action | — | 6.22 films | — | 6.22 films | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 7.01 film | 6.62 films | 5.31 film |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.31 film | — | — |
| Crime | — | — | — | 6.21 film | — |
| Romance | — | 5.81 film | — | 6.31 film | 6.31 film |
| Horror | — | 6.61 film | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1989Henry V
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gower.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2008Valkyrie
7.0 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
2026Elsinore
The current state of the argument, as Polonius/Michael Bryant.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Captain Haans
Directed by Bryan Singer
as Cassidy (voice)
Directed by Steven Knight
as Gower
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
as Morse
Directed by David Fincher
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
Captain Haans
Valkyrie (2008)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Captain Haans gives Danny Webb a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Cassidy (voice)
Locke (2014)
Performance score6.8
Locke asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cassidy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gower
Henry V (1989)
Performance score6.8
Henry V asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gower is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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John Grateley
The Dig (2021)
Performance score6.7
The Dig asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. John Grateley 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 Captain Haans
Start here. Valkyrie is the clearest statement of what Danny Webb does — accessible, 121 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Danny 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.
Henry V (1989)
Keeps the war register of Valkyrie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Alien³ (1992)
A deliberate change of key after Henry V — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Locke (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Alien³ — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Dig (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Locke but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Steven Knight
Director
2 films together
Notably Locke
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Henry V
John Irvin
Director
1 film together
Notably Robin Hood
David Fincher
Director
1 film together
Notably Alien³
Mike Binder
Director
1 film together
Notably The Upside of Anger
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably Valkyrie
Alan Rickman
Director
1 film together
Notably A Little Chaos
Jonathan Teplitzky
Director
1 film together
Notably Churchill
Mark Greenstreet
Director
1 film together
Notably Silent Hours
Helen Walsh
Director
1 film together
Notably On the Sea
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Steven Knight
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
LockeBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ValkyrieKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Henry VDavid Fincher
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alien³Helen Walsh
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
On the SeaAlan Rickman
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Little ChaosMike Binder
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Upside of AngerJonathan Teplitzky
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ChurchillJohn Irvin
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Robin HoodMark Greenstreet
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Silent HoursSix 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
Valkyrie
as Captain Haans
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
On the Sea
as Bernie
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Henry V
as Gower
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Valkyrie
as Captain Haans
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Valkyrie
as Captain Haans
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. Danny Webb 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
10 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
Valkyrie
as Captain Haans
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hummingbird
as Damon
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
On the Sea
as Bernie
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Silent Hours
as David Frampton
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Alien³
as Morse
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Hummingbird
as Damon
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Henry V
as Gower
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Alien³
as Morse
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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