Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9994
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Gregg Daniel represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 35 years in, and Gregg is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Gregg Daniel appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Gregg. Pump Up the Volume 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 drama, history, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Rachel Lee Goldenberg, Todd Phillips, Jeff Wadlow and others, Gregg Daniel 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.
Pump Up the Volume (1990) as Teacher Moore · Spider-Man 3 (2007) as Precinct Detective · White Men Can't Jump (1992) as Leon
Career snapshot
Ranked #9994 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
1990–2025
Career length
35 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
Pump Up the Volume
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.1
Pump Up the Volume
Most frequent director
Ron Shelton
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Ron Shelton
Most common genre
Comedy
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
6.6
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
6.7 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Mars Attacks!, White Men Can't Jump, 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
6.7
Across 3 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. Mars Attacks!, White Men Can't Jump, Pump Up the Volume.
Most productive era
2000s
4 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 | 6.82 films | — | — | 6.22 films |
| Action | — | 6.33 films | — | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.61 film | 6.11 film | 5.71 film |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | 5.72 films | — | 5.71 film |
| Crime | — | — | — | 5.71 film |
| Horror | — | — | 6.11 film | 5.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Teacher Moore. 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
2025Swiped
The current state of the argument, as David M..
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.
11 of 11 films
as David M.
Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg
as Precinct Detective
Directed by Sam Raimi
as Lab Technician
Directed by Tim Burton
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
Teacher Moore
Pump Up the Volume (1990)
Performance score6.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Teacher Moore gives Gregg Daniel a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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David M.
Swiped (2025)
Performance score6.6
Swiped asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. David M. is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Precinct Detective
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Performance score6.6
Spider-Man 3 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Precinct Detective is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lab Technician
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Performance score6.6
Mars Attacks! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lab Technician 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 Teacher Moore
Start here. Pump Up the Volume is the clearest statement of what Gregg Daniel does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Gregg 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.
White Men Can't Jump (1992)
Keeps the drama register of Pump Up the Volume but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Keeps the comedy register of White Men Can't Jump but asks for a colder reading of it.
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Keeps the science fiction register of Mars Attacks! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Swiped (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Spider-Man 3 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ron Shelton
Director
2 films together
Notably White Men Can't Jump
Allan Moyle
Director
1 film together
Notably Pump Up the Volume
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Mars Attacks!
Tom Shadyac
Director
1 film together
Notably Evan Almighty
Sam Raimi
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man 3
Peter Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably Hancock
Jeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together
Notably Truth or Dare
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably Joker: Folie à Deux
Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Swiped
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ron Shelton
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
White Men Can't JumpAllan 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 VolumeSam Raimi
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man 3Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SwipedTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mars Attacks!Peter Berg
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HancockJeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Truth or DareTom Shadyac
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Evan AlmightyTodd Phillips
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Joker: Folie à DeuxSix 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
Spider-Man 3
as Precinct Detective
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 Teacher Moore
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Pump Up the Volume
as Teacher Moore
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Evan Almighty
as Congressman
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pump Up the Volume
as Teacher Moore
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. Gregg Daniel 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
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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
5 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
Hancock
as Police Chief
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Truth or Dare
as Detective Kranis
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Pump Up the Volume
as Teacher Moore
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Joker: Folie à Deux
as Music Teacher
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man 3
as Precinct Detective
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man 3
as Precinct Detective
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Pump Up the Volume
as Teacher Moore
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fat Ass Zombies
as Carl
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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