Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#49418
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Gary Dubin represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 34 years in, and Gary is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Gary Dubin appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Gary. The Aristocats is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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 romance, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nick Hurran, Allan Moyle, Jeannot Szwarc and others, Gary Dubin 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 Aristocats (1970) as Toulouse (voice) · Pump Up the Volume (1990) as TV Announcer #2 · Diamonds Are Forever (1971) as Boy (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #49418 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1970–2004
Career length
34 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
The Aristocats
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
The Aristocats
Most frequent director
Nick Hurran
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Nick Hurran
Most common genre
Comedy
2 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
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
6.7
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. Pump Up the Volume — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Jaws 2, Diamonds Are Forever, The Aristocats.
Most productive era
1970s
3 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 | 1970s | 1990s | 2000s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.81 film | 5.81 film |
| Action | 6.51 film | — | — |
| Thriller | 6.32 films | — | — |
| Comedy | 7.31 film | — | 5.81 film |
| Romance | — | — | 5.81 film |
| Horror | 6.21 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1970The Aristocats
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Toulouse (voice). 7.3 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 Father.
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 Toulouse (voice)
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
as Eddie Marchand
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
as Boy (uncredited)
Directed by Guy Hamilton
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
Toulouse (voice)
The Aristocats (1970)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Toulouse (voice) gives Gary Dubin a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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TV Announcer #2
Pump Up the Volume (1990)
Performance score6.7
Pump Up the Volume asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. TV Announcer #2 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Father
Little Black Book (2004)
Performance score6.5
Little Black Book asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Father is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Eddie Marchand
Jaws 2 (1978)
Performance score6.5
Jaws 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Eddie Marchand 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 Toulouse (voice)
Start here. The Aristocats is the clearest statement of what Gary Dubin does — accessible, 78 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Gary 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.
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
A deliberate change of key after The Aristocats — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Jaws 2 (1978)
Keeps the thriller register of Diamonds Are Forever but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pump Up the Volume (1990)
A deliberate change of key after Jaws 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Little Black Book (2004)
Keeps the drama register of Pump Up the Volume but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Wolfgang Reitherman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Aristocats
Guy Hamilton
Director
1 film together
Notably Diamonds Are Forever
Jeannot Szwarc
Director
1 film together
Notably Jaws 2
Allan Moyle
Director
1 film together
Notably Pump Up the Volume
Nick Hurran
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Black Book
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Wolfgang Reitherman
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The AristocatsAllan Moyle
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pump Up the VolumeGuy Hamilton
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Diamonds Are ForeverJeannot Szwarc
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jaws 2Nick Hurran
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little Black BookSix 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 Aristocats
as Toulouse (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
Pump Up the Volume
as TV Announcer #2
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 Aristocats
as Toulouse (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Pump Up the Volume
as TV Announcer #2
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Aristocats
as Toulouse (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. Gary Dubin 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
34 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
2 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
The Aristocats
as Toulouse (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Diamonds Are Forever
as Boy (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Pump Up the Volume
as TV Announcer #2
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Jaws 2
as Eddie Marchand
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Aristocats
as Toulouse (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Diamonds Are Forever
as Boy (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Pump Up the Volume
as TV Announcer #2
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Little Black Book
as Father
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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