Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#14978
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
David Rintoul 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.
David Rintoul appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without David. The Ghost Writer is the clearest case: a film rated 6.8 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 action, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Martin Campbell, Cédric Jimenez, Simon Curtis and others, David Rintoul 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 Ghost Writer (2010) as Stranger · My Week with Marilyn (2011) as Dr. Connell · The Protégé (2021) as Edward Hayes
Career snapshot
Ranked #14978 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2010–2021
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
The Ghost Writer
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.8
The Ghost Writer
Most frequent director
Martin Campbell
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Martin Campbell
Most common genre
Thriller
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
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
6.3
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
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Man with the Iron Heart, My Week with Marilyn, The Iron Lady — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. The Man with the Iron Heart, My Week with Marilyn, The Iron Lady.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.62 films | — |
| Action | 6.61 film | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | 6.72 films | 6.61 film |
| Crime | — | 6.61 film |
| Romance | 6.71 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance
2010The Ghost Writer
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Stranger. 6.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak · Most recent film
2021The Protégé
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Edward Hayes.
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.
6 of 6 films
as Edward Hayes
Directed by Martin Campbell
as Stranger
Directed by Roman Polanski
as General Wagner
Directed by Cédric Jimenez
as Mark (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
Edward Hayes
The Protégé (2021)
Performance score6.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Edward Hayes gives David Rintoul a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Stranger
The Ghost Writer (2010)
Performance score6.7
The Ghost Writer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Stranger is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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General Wagner
The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)
Performance score6.6
The Man with the Iron Heart asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. General Wagner is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dr. Connell
My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Performance score6.6
My Week with Marilyn asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dr. Connell 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 Edward Hayes
Start here. The Protégé is the clearest statement of what David Rintoul does — accessible, 109 minutes, and rated 6.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet David 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.
The Ghost Writer (2010)
Keeps the thriller register of The Protégé but asks for a colder reading of it.
My Week with Marilyn (2011)
A deliberate change of key after The Ghost Writer — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)
A deliberate change of key after My Week with Marilyn — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Easter in Art (2020)
A deliberate change of key after The Man with the Iron Heart — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Roman Polanski
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ghost Writer
Simon Curtis
Director
1 film together
Notably My Week with Marilyn
Cédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man with the Iron Heart
Martin Campbell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Protégé
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Roman Polanski
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Ghost WriterSimon Curtis
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Week with MarilynMartin Campbell
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ProtégéCédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Man with the Iron HeartSix 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 Ghost Writer
as Stranger
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
My Week with Marilyn
as Dr. Connell
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 Ghost Writer
as Stranger
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Iron Lady
as Admiral Fieldhouse
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Protégé
as Edward Hayes
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. David Rintoul 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in thriller, 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 Ghost Writer
as Stranger
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Ghost Writer
as Stranger
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Week with Marilyn
as Dr. Connell
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Ghost Writer
as Stranger
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Protégé
as Edward Hayes
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Protégé
as Edward Hayes
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
My Week with Marilyn
as Dr. Connell
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Protégé
as Edward Hayes
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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