Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#574
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Diedrich Bader represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Diedrich is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Diedrich Bader appears in 30 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Diedrich. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now! is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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, comedy, music. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Logic, Kevin Smith, Tim Story and others, Diedrich Bader 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, Where Are You Now! (2021) as Batman - Concerned Citizen (voice) · Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness (2015) as H.A.M. (voice) · Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (2012) as Brad Adams (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #574 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
30
1999–2025
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now!
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness
Most frequent director
Kevin Smith
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Kevin Smith
Most common genre
Comedy
27 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
1990s
6.8 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Bartok the Magnificent, Office Space — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.8
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Bartok the Magnificent, Office Space.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action | — | 6.12 films | 6.52 films | 6.13 films |
| Comedy | 6.82 films | 6.48 films | 6.79 films | 6.38 films |
| Crime | — | 5.31 film | — | — |
| Romance | — | — | — | 5.81 film |
| Horror | — | — | — | 5.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Vol (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2012Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
7.7 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
2025Paradise Records
The current state of the argument, as Banks.
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.
30 of 30 films
as H.A.M. (voice)
Directed by Paul McEvoy
as Mrs. Vanders (voice)
Directed by Paul McEvoy
as Brad Adams (voice)
Directed by Michael Goguen
as Batman - Concerned Citizen (voice)
Directed by Jonathan Stern
as Lex Luthor (voice)
Directed by Sam Liu
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
H.A.M. (voice)
Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness (2015)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. H.A.M. (voice) gives Diedrich Bader a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mrs. Vanders (voice)
Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy (2014)
Performance score7.7
Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mrs. Vanders (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Brad Adams (voice)
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (2012)
Performance score7.7
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Brad Adams (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Batman - Concerned Citizen (voice)
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now! (2021)
Performance score7.5
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Batman - Concerned Citizen (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 H.A.M. (voice)
Start here. Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness is the clearest statement of what Diedrich Bader does — accessible, 80 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Diedrich 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.
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (2012)
Keeps the mystery register of Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness but asks for a colder reading of it.
Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy (2014)
Keeps the mystery register of Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon but asks for a colder reading of it.
Superman: Red Son (2020)
Keeps the science fiction register of Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now! (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Superman: Red Son but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kevin Smith
Director
3 films together
Notably Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Paul McEvoy
Director
2 films together
Notably Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness
Mike Judge
Director
1 film together
Notably Office Space
Gary Goldman
Director
1 film together
Notably Bartok the Magnificent
Chuck Sheetz
Director
1 film together
Notably Recess: School's Out
Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together
Notably Ice Age
Alec Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably EuroTrip
John Pasquin
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Robert Ben Garant
Director
1 film together
Notably Balls of Fury
Matthew O'Callaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Open Season 2
Byron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Bolt
Michael Goguen
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
Henry Yu
Director
1 film together
Notably Surf's Up 2: WaveMania
Stephen Sandoval
Director
1 film together
Notably Tangled: Before Ever After
Jake Castorena
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Dan Povenmire
Director
1 film together
Notably Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe
Donick Cary
Director
1 film together
Notably Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman: Red Son
Jonathan Stern
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now!
Eric Appel
Director
1 film together
Notably Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably The Blackening
Logic
Director
1 film together
Notably Paradise Records
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kevin Smith
Director
3 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Jay and Silent Bob Strike BackPaul McEvoy
Director
2 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster MadnessJonathan Stern
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now!Michael Goguen
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue FalconChris Wedge
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ice AgeMike Judge
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Office SpaceDan Povenmire
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the UniverseJake Castorena
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the BoldSam Liu
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman: Red SonStephen Sandoval
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tangled: Before Ever AfterEric Appel
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Weird: The Al Yankovic StoryByron Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BoltDonick Cary
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in PsychedelicsAlec Berg
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EuroTripChuck Sheetz
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Recess: School's OutGary Goldman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bartok the MagnificentHenry Yu
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Surf's Up 2: WaveManiaTim Story
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BlackeningMatthew O'Callaghan
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Open Season 2John Pasquin
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and FabulousRobert Ben Garant
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Balls of FuryLogic
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Paradise RecordsSix 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! Moon Monster Madness
as H.A.M. (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
Bartok the Magnificent
as Vol (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! Mask of the Blue Falcon
as Brad Adams (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
as Miramax Security Guard Gordon
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness
as H.A.M. (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. Diedrich Bader 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
26 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
27 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! Mask of the Blue Falcon
as Brad Adams (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now!
as Batman - Concerned Citizen (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bartok the Magnificent
as Vol (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
as Brad Adams (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold
as Batman (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
as Miramax Security Guard Gordon
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Bartok the Magnificent
as Vol (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Ice Age
as Saber-Toothed Tiger (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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