Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1747
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jack Angel represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 27 years in, and Jack is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jack Angel appears in 37 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jack. Toy Story is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, comedy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Chris Renaud, Lee Unkrich, John Lasseter and others, Jack Angel 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.
Toy Story (1995) as Shark / Rocky Gibraltar (voice) · Toy Story 3 (2010) as Chunk (voice) · Finding Nemo (2003) as Additional Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1747 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
37
1986–2013
Career length
27 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Toy Story
Average Nutevio score
7.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Toy Story
Most frequent director
John Lasseter
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With John Lasseter
Most common genre
Family
34 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.3
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
6.9
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
2000s
7.3 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Horton Hears a Who!, Cars, Ice Age: The Meltdown — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.3
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Little Mermaid, Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Most productive era
1990s
16 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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.81 film | 7.36 films | 7.11 film | — |
| Action | 7.01 film | 6.61 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 7.33 films | 7.18 films | 7.37 films | 7.43 films |
| Crime | 7.61 film | — | — | — |
| Romance | — | 7.54 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1986The Transformers: The Movie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Astrotrain (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1995Toy Story
8.3 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 Additional Voices (voice).
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.
37 of 37 films
as Shark / Rocky Gibraltar (voice)
Directed by John Lasseter
as Chunk (voice)
Directed by Lee Unkrich
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Andrew Stanton
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Pete Docter
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Brad Bird
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
Shark / Rocky Gibraltar (voice)
Toy Story (1995)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Shark / Rocky Gibraltar (voice) gives Jack Angel a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Chunk (voice)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Performance score7.8
Toy Story 3 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chunk (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Performance score7.8
Finding Nemo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Performance score7.8
Monsters, Inc. asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) 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 Shark / Rocky Gibraltar (voice)
Start here. Toy Story is the clearest statement of what Jack Angel does — accessible, 81 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jack 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.
The Iron Giant (1999)
Keeps the family register of Toy Story but asks for a colder reading of it.
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Keeps the family register of The Iron Giant but asks for a colder reading of it.
Finding Nemo (2003)
Keeps the family register of Monsters, Inc. but asks for a colder reading of it.
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Keeps the family register of Finding Nemo but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Musker
Director
4 films together
Notably Aladdin
John Lasseter
Director
4 films together
Notably Toy Story
Kirk Wise
Director
2 films together
Notably Beauty and the Beast
Robert Zemeckis
Director
2 films together
Notably Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Chris Renaud
Director
2 films together
Notably Despicable Me 2
Nelson Shin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Transformers: The Movie
Jerry Rees
Director
1 film together
Notably The Brave Little Toaster
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Beetlejuice
Don Bluth
Director
1 film together
Notably All Dogs Go to Heaven
Mike Gabriel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rescuers Down Under
Phil Nibbelink
Director
1 film together
Notably An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Brian Henson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Muppet Christmas Carol
Simon Wells
Director
1 film together
Notably Balto
Brenda Chapman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Prince of Egypt
Tim Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably Muppets from Space
Kevin Lima
Director
1 film together
Notably Tarzan
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably The Iron Giant
Mark Dindal
Director
1 film together
Notably The Emperor's New Groove
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Pete Docter
Director
1 film together
Notably Monsters, Inc.
Dean DeBlois
Director
1 film together
Notably Lilo & Stitch
Andrew Stanton
Director
1 film together
Notably Finding Nemo
Nick Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Carlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together
Notably Ice Age: The Meltdown
Lee Unkrich
Director
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 3
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
John Lasseter
Director
4 films together · 7.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Toy StoryJohn Musker
Director
4 films together · 7.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
AladdinKirk Wise
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Beauty and the BeastRobert Zemeckis
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Who Framed Roger RabbitChris Renaud
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Despicable Me 2Lee Unkrich
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Toy Story 3Andrew Stanton
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Finding NemoPete Docter
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Monsters, Inc.Brad Bird
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Iron GiantMark Dindal
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Emperor's New GrooveDean DeBlois
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lilo & StitchKevin Lima
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TarzanTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BeetlejuiceBrenda Chapman
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 Prince of EgyptSimon Wells
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BaltoBrian Henson
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Muppet Christmas CarolNick Park
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-RabbitSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A.I. Artificial IntelligenceNelson Shin
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Transformers: The MovieCarlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ice Age: The MeltdownDon Bluth
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All Dogs Go to HeavenJerry Rees
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Brave Little ToasterMike Gabriel
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Rescuers Down UnderPhil Nibbelink
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
An American Tail: Fievel Goes WestTim Hill
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Muppets from SpaceSix 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
Toy Story 3
as Chunk (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
Aladdin
as Additional Voices (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Toy Story
as Shark / Rocky Gibraltar (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Muppet Christmas Carol
as Additional Muppet Performer (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Toy Story
as Shark / Rocky Gibraltar (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. Jack Angel 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
27 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.
Family Legend
Awarded
34 catalogue titles in family, 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
Monsters, Inc.
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Toy Story
as Shark / Rocky Gibraltar (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Polar Express
as Wolves (uncredited)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Polar Express
as Wolves (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Finding Nemo
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Rescuers Down Under
as Additional Voices (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Hercules
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Toy Story
as Shark / Rocky Gibraltar (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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