Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12331
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Lance LeGault represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 49 years in, and Lance is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Lance LeGault appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lance. Coma is the clearest case: a film rated 6.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, drama, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with David Gordon Green, Will Finn, Michael Crichton and others, Lance LeGault 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.
Coma (1978) as Vince · Sweet Charity (1969) as Dancer (uncredited) · Viva Las Vegas (1964) as Son of the Lone Star State (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #12331 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1964–2013
Career length
49 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.7
Coma
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.9
Sweet Charity
Most frequent director
David Gordon Green
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With David Gordon Green
Most common genre
Comedy
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.8
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
1970s
6.7 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. Coma — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
6.7
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1960s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Sweet Charity, Viva Las Vegas.
Most productive era
1960s
2 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 | 1960s | 1970s | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.61 film | — | — | 6.11 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.71 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.42 films | — | — | 6.11 film |
| Romance | 6.42 films | — | — | — |
| Horror | — | 6.71 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1964Viva Las Vegas
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Son of the Lone Star State (uncredited).
Career peak
1969Sweet Charity
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
1978Coma
6.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2013Prince Avalanche
The current state of the argument, as Truck Driver.
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.
5 of 5 films
as Truck Driver
Directed by David Gordon Green
as Vince
Directed by Michael Crichton
as Dancer (uncredited)
Directed by Bob Fosse
as Son of the Lone Star State (uncredited)
Directed by George Sidney
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
Truck Driver
Prince Avalanche (2013)
Performance score6.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Truck Driver gives Lance LeGault a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Vince
Coma (1978)
Performance score6.6
Coma asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vince is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dancer (uncredited)
Sweet Charity (1969)
Performance score6.6
Sweet Charity asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dancer (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Junior (voice)
Home on the Range (2004)
Performance score6.5
Home on the Range asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Junior (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 Truck Driver
Start here. Prince Avalanche is the clearest statement of what Lance LeGault does — accessible, 94 minutes, and rated 6.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lance 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.
Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Keeps the comedy register of Prince Avalanche but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sweet Charity (1969)
Keeps the romance register of Viva Las Vegas but asks for a colder reading of it.
Coma (1978)
A deliberate change of key after Sweet Charity — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Home on the Range (2004)
A deliberate change of key after Coma — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
George Sidney
Director
1 film together
Notably Viva Las Vegas
Bob Fosse
Director
1 film together
Notably Sweet Charity
Michael Crichton
Director
1 film together
Notably Coma
Will Finn
Director
1 film together
Notably Home on the Range
David Gordon Green
Director
1 film together
Notably Prince Avalanche
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michael Crichton
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ComaBob Fosse
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sweet CharityGeorge Sidney
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Viva Las VegasDavid Gordon Green
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Prince AvalancheWill Finn
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Home on the RangeSix 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
Coma
as Vince
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Sweet Charity
as Dancer (uncredited)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Coma
as Vince
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Viva Las Vegas
as Son of the Lone Star State (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Prince Avalanche
as Truck Driver
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. Lance LeGault 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
49 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
3 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
Coma
as Vince
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Coma
as Vince
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Sweet Charity
as Dancer (uncredited)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Coma
as Vince
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Coma
as Vince
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Sweet Charity
as Dancer (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Sweet Charity
as Dancer (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Viva Las Vegas
as Son of the Lone Star State (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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