Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6678
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Larry Cedar represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Larry is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Larry Cedar appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Larry. This Bloody Country is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for western, horror, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Chris Sanders, Michael Matthews, Sam Liu and others, Larry Cedar 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.
This Bloody Country (2026) as Josiah Ballard · The Call of the Wild (2020) as Grocer · Love and Monsters (2020) as Elderly Colonist (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #6678 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
1997–2026
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
This Bloody Country
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
This Bloody Country
Most frequent director
Chris Sanders
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Chris Sanders
Most common genre
Adventure
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
2020s
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. This Bloody Country, Abraham's Boys: A Dracula Story, The Call of the Wild — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.0
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. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Kiss the Girls, Nightwatch.
Most productive era
2000s
5 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 | 6.63 films | 5.72 films | — | 7.51 film |
| Action | — | 6.33 films | 6.83 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.32 films | 5.31 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 7.21 film | 5.81 film | — | 7.31 film |
| Crime | 6.61 film | 6.11 film | — | — |
| Horror | 6.11 film | 7.31 film | 6.31 film | 5.32 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997Kiss the Girls
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Reporter.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Josiah Ballard.
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.
16 of 16 films
as Grocer
Directed by Chris Sanders
as Car Rental Agent - Los Angeles
Directed by Terry Gilliam
as Elderly Colonist (uncredited)
Directed by Michael Matthews
as Vermin Man
Directed by Francis Lawrence
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
Josiah Ballard
This Bloody Country (2026)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Josiah Ballard gives Larry Cedar a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Grocer
The Call of the Wild (2020)
Performance score7.3
The Call of the Wild asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Grocer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Car Rental Agent - Los Angeles
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Performance score7.3
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Car Rental Agent - Los Angeles is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Elderly Colonist (uncredited)
Love and Monsters (2020)
Performance score7.2
Love and Monsters asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Elderly Colonist (uncredited) 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 Josiah Ballard
Start here. This Bloody Country is the clearest statement of what Larry Cedar does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Larry 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.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
A deliberate change of key after This Bloody Country — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Constantine (2005)
A deliberate change of key after Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Call of the Wild (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Constantine — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Love and Monsters (2020)
Keeps the adventure register of The Call of the Wild but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ole Bornedal
Director
1 film together
Notably Nightwatch
Gary Fleder
Director
1 film together
Notably Kiss the Girls
Terry Gilliam
Director
1 film together
Notably Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Paul Abascal
Director
1 film together
Notably Paparazzi
Francis Lawrence
Director
1 film together
Notably Constantine
Allen Coulter
Director
1 film together
Notably Hollywoodland
John A. Davis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ant Bully
Jon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together
Notably National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Breck Eisner
Director
1 film together
Notably The Crazies
Ethan Spaulding
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League: Gods and Monsters
Michael Matthews
Director
1 film together
Notably Love and Monsters
Chris Sanders
Director
1 film together
Notably The Call of the Wild
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Chris Sanders
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Call of the WildMichael Matthews
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love and MonstersFrancis Lawrence
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ConstantineTerry Gilliam
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fear and Loathing in Las VegasSam Liu
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League: Gods and MonstersEthan Spaulding
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League: Throne of AtlantisGary Fleder
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kiss the GirlsJon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
National Treasure: Book of SecretsBreck Eisner
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CraziesAllen Coulter
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HollywoodlandOle Bornedal
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NightwatchJohn A. Davis
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Ant BullyPaul Abascal
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PaparazziSix 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
This Bloody Country
as Josiah Ballard
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 Call of the Wild
as Grocer
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
This Bloody Country
as Josiah Ballard
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kiss the Girls
as Reporter
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
This Bloody Country
as Josiah Ballard
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. Larry Cedar 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
29 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.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in adventure, 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
This Bloody Country
as Josiah Ballard
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
This Bloody Country
as Josiah Ballard
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Call of the Wild
as Grocer
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Lucky
as Officer Pace
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
This Bloody Country
as Josiah Ballard
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Justice League: Gods and Monsters
as Pete Ross (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Ant Bully
as Ant #8 (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Constantine
as Vermin Man
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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