Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#14,441
of 15,890 eligible performers
Garette Ratliff Henson 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.
Garette Ratliff Henson appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Garette. Radio Flyer 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 comedy, fantasy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Brad Silberling, Stephen Sommers, Richard Donner and others, Garette Ratliff Henson 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.
Radio Flyer (1992) as Chad · Casper (1995) as Vic DePhillippi · The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) as Billy Grangerford
Career snapshot
Ranked #14,441 of 15,890 eligible performers in the Nutevio catalogue.
Films in Nutevio
5
1990–1995
Career length
5 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
Radio Flyer
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Radio Flyer
Most frequent director
Brad Silberling
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Brad Silberling
Most common genre
Adventure
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
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
6.1
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
6.2 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Casper, The Adventures of Huck Finn, Radio Flyer — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.2
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.0
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. Casper, The Adventures of Huck Finn, Radio Flyer.
Most productive era
1990s
5 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 |
|---|---|
| Drama | 6.53 films |
| Action | 5.21 film |
| Comedy | 6.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1990Captain America
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Young Tom Kimball.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1992Radio Flyer
6.8 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
1995Casper
The current state of the argument, as Vic DePhillippi.
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.
5 of 5 films
as Vic DePhillippi
Directed by Brad Silberling
as Billy Grangerford
Directed by Stephen Sommers
as Young Richard
Directed by William A. Graham
as Young Tom Kimball
Directed by Albert Pyun
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
Chad
Radio Flyer (1992)
Performance score6.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Chad gives Garette Ratliff Henson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Vic DePhillippi
Casper (1995)
Performance score6.5
Casper asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vic DePhillippi is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Billy Grangerford
The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
Performance score6.5
The Adventures of Huck Finn asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Billy Grangerford is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Young Richard
Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
Performance score6.5
Return to the Blue Lagoon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Richard 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 Chad
Start here. Radio Flyer is the clearest statement of what Garette Ratliff Henson does — accessible, 114 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Garette 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.
Captain America (1990)
A deliberate change of key after Radio Flyer — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
Keeps the adventure register of Captain America but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
Keeps the adventure register of Return to the Blue Lagoon but asks for a colder reading of it.
Casper (1995)
Keeps the family register of The Adventures of Huck Finn but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Albert Pyun
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain America
William A. Graham
Director
1 film together
Notably Return to the Blue Lagoon
Richard Donner
Director
1 film together
Notably Radio Flyer
Stephen Sommers
Director
1 film together
Notably The Adventures of Huck Finn
Brad Silberling
Director
1 film together
Notably Casper
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Richard Donner
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Radio FlyerBrad Silberling
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CasperStephen Sommers
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 Adventures of Huck FinnWilliam A. Graham
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Return to the Blue LagoonAlbert Pyun
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain AmericaSix 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
Radio Flyer
as Chad
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 Adventures of Huck Finn
as Billy Grangerford
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Radio Flyer
as Chad
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Adventures of Huck Finn
as Billy Grangerford
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Radio Flyer
as Chad
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. Garette Ratliff Henson 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.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in adventure, 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
Casper
as Vic DePhillippi
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Radio Flyer
as Chad
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Adventures of Huck Finn
as Billy Grangerford
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Casper
as Vic DePhillippi
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Adventures of Huck Finn
as Billy Grangerford
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Captain America
as Young Tom Kimball
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Captain America
as Young Tom Kimball
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Captain America
as Young Tom Kimball
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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