Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2352
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Graham Greene represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 35 years in, and Graham is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Graham Greene appears in 27 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Graham. The Green Mile is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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 Scott Cooper, Shelagh McLeod, Don McKellar and others, Graham Greene 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 Green Mile (1999) as Arlen Bitterbuck · The Green Mile (1999) as Arlen Bitterbuck · Dances with Wolves (1990) as Kicking Bird
Career snapshot
Ranked #2352 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
27
1990–2025
Career length
35 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
The Green Mile
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.6
The Green Mile
Most frequent director
Frank Darabont
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Frank Darabont
Most common genre
Drama
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
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
6.8
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
7.5 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Green Mile, The Green Mile, Die Hard: With a Vengeance — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.5
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.4
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. The Green Mile, The Green Mile, Die Hard: With a Vengeance.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.55 films | 6.21 film | 6.55 films | 5.06 films |
| Action | 7.22 films | — | 5.41 film | 5.65 films |
| Thriller | 7.41 film | — | 6.42 films | 5.55 films |
| Comedy | 6.02 films | — | 6.11 film | — |
| Crime | 8.92 films | — | 7.32 films | 5.64 films |
| Romance | — | 6.21 film | 6.31 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | — | 5.25 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kicking Bird.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1999The Green Mile
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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 Hoko.
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.
27 of 27 films
as Arlen Bitterbuck
Directed by Frank Darabont
as Arlen Bitterbuck
Directed by Frank Darabont
as Kicking Bird
Directed by Kevin Costner
as Ben
Directed by Taylor Sheridan
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 37 titles · 37 total credits · active 1990–2025
Icefall
2025 · Oz
The Protector
2025 · Brand
King Ivory
2025 · Holt
Afterwards
2025 · Dormer
Trail of Vengeance
2025 · Hoko
The Lowdown
2025 · TV · Arthur Williams
Echo
2024 · TV · Skully
Squealer
2023 · Joe
V for Vengeance
2022 · Bullseye
The Wolf and the Lion
2021 · Joe
A Dark Foe
2021 · The Cradle
Antlers
2021 · Warren Stokes
Amend: The Fight for America
2021 · TV · Self
Reservation Dogs
2021 · TV · Maximus
Blue Ridge
2020 · Cliff McGrath
Tar
2020 · Homeless Man/Carl
Astronaut
2019 · Len
Through Black Spruce
2019 · Leo
We Are Boats
2019 · Cliff
Shadow Wolves
2019 · Nabahe
Project Blue Book
2019 · TV · David
Wind River
2017 · Ben
Molly's Game
2017 · Judge Foxman
The Shack
2017 · Male Papa
The defining work
#1
Arlen Bitterbuck
The Green Mile (1999)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Arlen Bitterbuck gives Graham Greene a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Arlen Bitterbuck
The Green Mile (1999)
Performance score8.4
The Green Mile asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Arlen Bitterbuck is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kicking Bird
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Performance score8.1
Dances with Wolves asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kicking Bird is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Joe
The Wolf and the Lion (2021)
Performance score7.8
The Wolf and the Lion asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Joe 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 Arlen Bitterbuck
Start here. The Green Mile is the clearest statement of what Graham Greene does — accessible, 189 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Graham 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.
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Keeps the drama register of The Green Mile but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Green Mile (1999)
Keeps the drama register of Dances with Wolves but asks for a colder reading of it.
Wind River (2017)
Keeps the crime register of The Green Mile but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Wolf and the Lion (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Wind River — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Frank Darabont
Director
2 films together
Notably The Green Mile
Kevin Costner
Director
1 film together
Notably Dances with Wolves
Rob Reiner
Director
1 film together
Notably North
Richard Donner
Director
1 film together
Notably Maverick
John McTiernan
Director
1 film together
Notably Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Chris Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Akiva Goldsman
Director
1 film together
Notably Winter's Tale
Aaron Sorkin
Director
1 film together
Notably Molly's Game
Taylor Sheridan
Director
1 film together
Notably Wind River
Don McKellar
Director
1 film together
Notably Through Black Spruce
Shelagh McLeod
Director
1 film together
Notably Astronaut
Scott Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Antlers
William Sadler
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Jeffrey DeMunn
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Harry Dean Stanton
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Tom Hanks
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Bonnie Hunt
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
David Morse
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Michael Clarke Duncan
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
James Cromwell
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Michael Jeter
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Doug Hutchison
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Sam Rockwell
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Barry Pepper
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Frank Darabont
Director
2 films together · 8.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Green MileKevin Costner
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dances with WolvesTaylor Sheridan
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wind RiverJohn McTiernan
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Die Hard: With a VengeanceAaron Sorkin
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Molly's GameRichard Donner
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MaverickAkiva Goldsman
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Winter's TaleScott Cooper
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AntlersChris Weitz
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Twilight Saga: New MoonShelagh McLeod
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AstronautDon McKellar
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Through Black SpruceRob Reiner
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NorthSix 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 Green Mile
as Arlen Bitterbuck
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 Green Mile
as Arlen Bitterbuck
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 Green Mile
as Arlen Bitterbuck
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Green Mile
as Arlen Bitterbuck
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Green Mile
as Arlen Bitterbuck
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. Graham Greene has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.1 | 8.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #380 of 681 | #7 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.0 | 9.4 |
| Genres | Drama, Fantasy, Crime | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Frank Darabont | Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Frank Darabont |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Drama, Quiet performance | Screen presence, Drama, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 1999–1999 | 1994–2008 |
| Most iconic role | Arlen Bitterbuck — The Green Mile | Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding — The Shawshank Redemption |
| Most rewatchable film | The Green Mile | The Shawshank Redemption |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 3 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
frank-darabont
Shared collections
Best Prison Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Frank Darabont · William Sadler · Jeffrey DeMunn
Morgan Freeman edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
35 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
17 catalogue titles in drama, 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 Green Mile
as Arlen Bitterbuck
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Green Mile
as Arlen Bitterbuck
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Winter's Tale
as Humpstone John
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Wind River
as Ben
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Green Mile
as Arlen Bitterbuck
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Shadow Wolves
as Nabahe
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Maverick
as Joseph
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Green Mile
as Arlen Bitterbuck
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 5 Nutevio collections
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