Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13338
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Dave B. Mitchell 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.
Dave B. Mitchell appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Dave. Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, action. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, fantasy, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ethan Spaulding, Chris Renaud, Michael Chang, Dave B. Mitchell 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.
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020) as Raiden / Lin Kuei Warrior (voice) · Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021) as Raiden / Kintaro / Sektor (voice) · Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island (2019) as Driver / Ferry Captain (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #13338 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2012–2023
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
Most frequent director
Ethan Spaulding
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Ethan Spaulding
Most common genre
Animation
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 10m
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island, Bilal: A New Breed of Hero, The Lorax — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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! Return to Zombie Island, Bilal: A New Breed of Hero, The Lorax.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Action | 6.72 films | 6.66 films |
| Comedy | 6.91 film | — |
| Horror | 6.91 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012The Lorax
Where our catalogue meets this career, as 1st Commercial Guy (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
7.8 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
2023LEGO Monkie Kid: The Emperor's Wrath
The current state of the argument, as Pigsy / Yellowtusk (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.
10 of 10 films
as Raiden / Lin Kuei Warrior (voice)
Directed by Ethan Spaulding
as Raiden / Kintaro / Sektor (voice)
Directed by Ethan Spaulding
as Driver / Ferry Captain (voice)
Directed by Ethan Spaulding
as Raiden / Bus Driver (voice)
Directed by Ethan Spaulding
as Hamza (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
Raiden / Lin Kuei Warrior (voice)
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Raiden / Lin Kuei Warrior (voice) gives Dave B. Mitchell a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Raiden / Kintaro / Sektor (voice)
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021)
Performance score7.3
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Raiden / Kintaro / Sektor (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Driver / Ferry Captain (voice)
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island (2019)
Performance score6.8
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Driver / Ferry Captain (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Raiden / Bus Driver (voice)
Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match (2023)
Performance score6.6
Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Raiden / Bus Driver (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 Raiden / Lin Kuei Warrior (voice)
Start here. Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge is the clearest statement of what Dave B. Mitchell does — accessible, 80 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Dave 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.
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2016)
Keeps the action register of Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge but asks for a colder reading of it.
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island (2019)
Keeps the adventure register of Bilal: A New Breed of Hero but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021)
Same director as Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match (2023)
Same director as Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ethan Spaulding
Director
4 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's RevengeChris Renaud
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The LoraxMichael Chang
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman vs. The EliteSix 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
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
as Raiden / Lin Kuei Warrior (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
The Lorax
as 1st Commercial Guy (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
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
as Raiden / Lin Kuei Warrior (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Superman vs. The Elite
as Shocktrooper (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
as Raiden / Lin Kuei Warrior (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. Dave B. Mitchell 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
10 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
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
as Raiden / Lin Kuei Warrior (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
as Raiden / Lin Kuei Warrior (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Lorax
as 1st Commercial Guy (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island
as Driver / Ferry Captain (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
as Raiden / Lin Kuei Warrior (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
LEGO Monkie Kid: The Emperor's Wrath
as Pigsy / Yellowtusk (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island
as Driver / Ferry Captain (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
LEGO Monkie Kid: The Emperor's Wrath
as Pigsy / Yellowtusk (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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