Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#62646
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Jeremy Slate represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 33 years in, and Jeremy is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jeremy Slate appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jeremy. North by Northwest is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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 science fiction, horror, western. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Henry Hathaway, Norman Taurog, Alfred Hitchcock, Jeremy Slate 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.
North by Northwest (1959) as Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited) · True Grit (1969) as Emmett Quincy · The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) as Ben Latta
Career snapshot
Ranked #62646 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
1959–1992
Career length
33 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
North by Northwest
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
North by Northwest
Most frequent director
Henry Hathaway
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Henry Hathaway
Most common genre
Western
2 titles
Average runtime
1h 56m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
1950s
7.9 average MV
The 1950s are where the work and the material meet. North by Northwest — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1950s
7.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1950s
8.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1950s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. North by Northwest.
Most productive era
1960s
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 | 1950s | 1960s | 1990s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thriller | 7.91 film | — | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.22 films | — |
| Romance | — | 6.22 films | — |
| Horror | — | — | 5.61 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 Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited). 7.9 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 Francis McKeen.
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.
6 of 6 films
as Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
as Emmett Quincy
Directed by Henry Hathaway
as Francis McKeen
Directed by Unknown
as Wesley Johnson
Directed by Norman Taurog
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
Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited)
North by Northwest (1959)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited) gives Jeremy Slate a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Emmett Quincy
True Grit (1969)
Performance score7.2
True Grit asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Emmett Quincy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ben Latta
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Performance score7.0
The Sons of Katie Elder asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ben Latta is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Francis McKeen
The Lawnmower Man (1992)
Performance score6.5
The Lawnmower Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Francis McKeen 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 Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited)
Start here. North by Northwest is the clearest statement of what Jeremy Slate does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jeremy 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.
Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
A deliberate change of key after North by Northwest — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
A deliberate change of key after Girls! Girls! Girls! — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
True Grit (1969)
Same director as The Sons of Katie Elder, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Lawnmower Man (1992)
A deliberate change of key after True Grit — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Henry Hathaway
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
True GritNorman Taurog
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
G.I. BluesAlfred Hitchcock
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
North by NorthwestSix 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
North by Northwest
as Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Girls! Girls! Girls!
as Wesley Johnson
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
North by Northwest
as Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
North by Northwest
as Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
North by Northwest
as Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited)
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. Jeremy Slate 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
33 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Western Legend
Awarded
2 catalogue titles in western, 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
North by Northwest
as Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
North by Northwest
as Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Girls! Girls! Girls!
as Wesley Johnson
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
North by Northwest
as Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
North by Northwest
as Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
North by Northwest
as Policeman at Grand Central Station (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
G.I. Blues
as Turk
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Girls! Girls! Girls!
as Wesley Johnson
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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