Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8864
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jim Klock works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jim Klock appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jim. Green Book is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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, thriller, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Babak Najafi, Jim Klock, Craig Zobel and others, Jim Klock 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.
Green Book (2018) as Patrolman #1 · The Burial (2023) as Rick Riverridge · Deepwater Horizon (2016) as Scared Crew Member
Career snapshot
Ranked #8864 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Green Book
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Green Book
Most frequent director
Jim Klock
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jim Klock
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
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
6.2
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
2010s
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Pure, Wounds, Green Book — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Bitch Slap.
Most productive era
2010s
9 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 4.81 film | 7.06 films | 6.42 films |
| Action | 4.81 film | 6.63 films | 4.43 films |
| Thriller | 4.81 film | 6.02 films | 4.33 films |
| Comedy | 4.81 film | 7.32 films | 0.01 film |
| Crime | 4.81 film | — | 6.32 films |
| Horror | — | 4.82 films | 4.14 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Bitch Slap
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Officer Spanky With a 'Tude.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Green Book
8.4 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
2026Chum
The current state of the argument, as Roy.
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.
19 of 19 films
as Patrolman #1
Directed by Peter Farrelly
as Rick Riverridge
Directed by Unknown
as Leblanc
Directed by Courtney Hunt
as Scared Crew Member
Directed by Peter Berg
as Farmer 1
Directed by Gary Ross
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
Patrolman #1
Green Book (2018)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Patrolman #1 gives Jim Klock a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Rick Riverridge
The Burial (2023)
Performance score7.0
The Burial asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rick Riverridge is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Leblanc
The Whole Truth (2016)
Performance score6.8
The Whole Truth asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Leblanc is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Scared Crew Member
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Performance score6.8
Deepwater Horizon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Scared Crew Member 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 Patrolman #1
Start here. Green Book is the clearest statement of what Jim Klock does — accessible, 130 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jim 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 Whole Truth (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Green Book but asks for a colder reading of it.
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Keeps the drama register of The Whole Truth but asks for a colder reading of it.
Free State of Jones (2016)
Keeps the action register of Deepwater Horizon but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Burial (2023)
Keeps the drama register of Free State of Jones but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jim Klock
Director
2 films together
Notably Slayed
Rick Jacobson
Director
1 film together
Notably Bitch Slap
Karen Moncrieff
Director
1 film together
Notably The Trials of Cate McCall
Thomas Carter
Director
1 film together
Notably When the Game Stands Tall
Nima Nourizadeh
Director
1 film together
Notably American Ultra
Gary Ross
Director
1 film together
Notably Free State of Jones
Peter Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably Deepwater Horizon
Courtney Hunt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Whole Truth
Peter Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Green Book
Hannah Macpherson
Director
1 film together
Notably Pure
Henry Joost
Director
1 film together
Notably Project Power
Kevin Willmott
Director
1 film together
Notably The 24th
Craig Zobel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunt
Babak Najafi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Florist
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jim Klock
Director
2 films together · 2.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SlayedPeter Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Green BookPeter Berg
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deepwater HorizonGary Ross
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Free State of JonesCraig Zobel
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HuntThomas Carter
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
When the Game Stands TallCourtney Hunt
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 Whole TruthHenry Joost
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Project PowerKaren Moncrieff
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Trials of Cate McCallNima Nourizadeh
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American UltraKevin Willmott
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The 24thHannah Macpherson
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PureRick Jacobson
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bitch SlapBabak Najafi
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FloristSix 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
Green Book
as Patrolman #1
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 Burial
as Rick Riverridge
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Green Book
as Patrolman #1
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Green Book
as Patrolman #1
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Green Book
as Patrolman #1
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. Jim Klock 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.
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
9 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
Green Book
as Patrolman #1
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Green Book
as Patrolman #1
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Burial
as Rick Riverridge
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Wounds
as Patrick
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Green Book
as Patrolman #1
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Hunt
as Captain O’Hara
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Green Book
as Patrolman #1
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Green Book
as Patrolman #1
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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