Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4650
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Garfield Wilson 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.
Garfield Wilson appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Garfield. Love You to Death is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Adam Davidson, Peter Benson, Adam Stein and others, Garfield Wilson 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.
Love You to Death (2019) as Dr. Price · Ships in the Night: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2021) as Carl Kilburn · Christmas Above the Clouds (2025) as Air Marshall / Ghost of Christmas yet to come
Career snapshot
Ranked #4650 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Love You to Death
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Love You to Death
Most frequent director
Peter Benson
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Peter Benson
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 18m
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
6.2
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
2020s
6.5 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. One Mile: Chapter Two, A Little Park Music, Final Destination Bloodlines — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.5
Across 13 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.5
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. My Father, My Kidnapper, Come to Daddy, Write Before Christmas.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | 7.61 film | — |
| Action | 5.51 film | 5.93 films |
| Thriller | 5.92 films | 6.31 film |
| Comedy | 5.33 films | 6.46 films |
| Crime | 7.11 film | 6.53 films |
| Romance | 6.91 film | 6.33 films |
| Horror | 6.01 film | 7.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Game Over, Man!
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Warren.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.6 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
The current state of the argument, as Chet.
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.
20 of 20 films
as Carl Kilburn
Directed by Mark Jean
as Air Marshall / Ghost of Christmas yet to come
Directed by Peter Benson
as Chuck - Sky View Male Singer
Directed by Adam Stein
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
DTF?
DTF? (2025)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The role gives Garfield Wilson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Dr. Price
Love You to Death (2019)
Performance score7.4
Love You to Death asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dr. Price is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Carl Kilburn
Ships in the Night: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2021)
Performance score7.2
Ships in the Night: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Carl Kilburn is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Air Marshall / Ghost of Christmas yet to come
Christmas Above the Clouds (2025)
Performance score7.1
Christmas Above the Clouds asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Air Marshall / Ghost of Christmas yet to come 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
Start here. DTF? is the clearest statement of what Garfield Wilson does — accessible, 15 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Garfield 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.
Love You to Death (2019)
A deliberate change of key after DTF? — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ships in the Night: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2021)
Keeps the tv movie register of Love You to Death but asks for a colder reading of it.
Christmas Above the Clouds (2025)
Keeps the tv movie register of Ships in the Night: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery but asks for a colder reading of it.
Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Christmas Above the Clouds — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Peter Benson
Director
2 films together
Notably Christmas Above the Clouds
Kyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together
Notably Game Over, Man!
Terry Ingram
Director
1 film together
Notably Chronicle Mysteries: The Wrong Man
Alex Kalymnios
Director
1 film together
Notably Love You to Death
Jonathan A. Rosenbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls
Pat Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably Write Before Christmas
Farhad Mann
Director
1 film together
Notably My Father, My Kidnapper
Michael Dowse
Director
1 film together
Notably Coffee & Kareem
Michael M. Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Dangerous Lies
Mark Jean
Director
1 film together
Notably Ships in the Night: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery
Peter DeLuise
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wedding Contract
David Lowery
Director
1 film together
Notably Peter Pan & Wendy
Jess McLeod
Director
1 film together
Notably DTF?
Adam Stein
Director
1 film together
Notably Final Destination Bloodlines
Adam Davidson
Director
1 film together
Notably One Mile: Chapter Two
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Peter Benson
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
Christmas Above the CloudsAlex Kalymnios
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love You to DeathMark Jean
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ships in the Night: A Martha's Vineyard MysteryAdam Stein
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Final Destination BloodlinesTerry Ingram
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chronicle Mysteries: The Wrong ManJess McLeod
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DTF?Pat Williams
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Write Before ChristmasAdam Davidson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Mile: Chapter TwoMichael M. Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dangerous LiesPeter DeLuise
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wedding ContractFarhad Mann
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Father, My KidnapperKyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Game Over, Man!David Lowery
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Peter Pan & WendyMichael Dowse
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Coffee & KareemJonathan A. Rosenbaum
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Benchwarmers 2: Breaking BallsSix 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
Love You to Death
as Dr. Price
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Christmas Above the Clouds
as Air Marshall / Ghost of Christmas yet to come
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Love You to Death
as Dr. Price
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Game Over, Man!
as Warren
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
DTF?
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. Garfield Wilson 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
9 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
Ships in the Night: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery
as Carl Kilburn
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ships in the Night: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery
as Carl Kilburn
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Christmas Above the Clouds
as Air Marshall / Ghost of Christmas yet to come
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Ships in the Night: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery
as Carl Kilburn
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
One Mile: Chapter Two
as Curtis
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Peter Pan & Wendy
as Gurley
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Christmas Above the Clouds
as Air Marshall / Ghost of Christmas yet to come
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Final Destination Bloodlines
as Chuck - Sky View Male Singer
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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