Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#31757
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Lennie Weinrib 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.
Lennie Weinrib appears in 4 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lennie. Bedknobs and Broomsticks is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 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 comedy, music, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Robert McKimson, Robert Stevenson, Stanley Kramer and others, Lennie Weinrib 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.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) as Secretary Bird / Lion (voice) · Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982) as Prince Abba-Dabba (voice) · It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) as F-14 / Ladder Fireman (voice) (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #31757 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
4
1962–1982
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
Most frequent director
Robert McKimson
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Robert McKimson
Most common genre
Comedy
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 58m
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
6.5
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
6.9 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. Bedknobs and Broomsticks — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
6.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
7.2
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. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Tales of Terror.
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 | 1980s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thriller | 6.51 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | — | 6.81 film |
| Crime | 6.81 film | — | — |
| Horror | 6.51 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1962Tales of Terror
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Policeman ("The Black Cat").
Highest rated performance
6.9 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak · Most recent film
1982Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Prince Abba-Dabba (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.
4 of 4 films
as Prince Abba-Dabba (voice)
Directed by Robert McKimson
as Secretary Bird / Lion (voice)
Directed by Robert Stevenson
as F-14 / Ladder Fireman (voice) (uncredited)
Directed by Stanley Kramer
as Policeman ("The Black Cat")
Directed by Roger Corman
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
Prince Abba-Dabba (voice)
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)
Performance score7.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Prince Abba-Dabba (voice) gives Lennie Weinrib a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Secretary Bird / Lion (voice)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Performance score6.8
Bedknobs and Broomsticks asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Secretary Bird / Lion (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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F-14 / Ladder Fireman (voice) (uncredited)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Performance score6.7
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. F-14 / Ladder Fireman (voice) (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Policeman ("The Black Cat")
Tales of Terror (1962)
Performance score6.5
Tales of Terror asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Policeman ("The Black Cat") 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 Prince Abba-Dabba (voice)
Start here. Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales is the clearest statement of what Lennie Weinrib does — accessible, 74 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lennie 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.
Tales of Terror (1962)
Keeps the comedy register of Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales but asks for a colder reading of it.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Keeps the comedy register of Tales of Terror but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
A deliberate change of key after It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Roger Corman
Director
1 film together
Notably Tales of Terror
Stanley Kramer
Director
1 film together
Notably It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Robert Stevenson
Director
1 film together
Notably Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Robert McKimson
Director
1 film together
Notably Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Robert Stevenson
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bedknobs and BroomsticksRobert McKimson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit TalesStanley Kramer
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldRoger Corman
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tales of TerrorSix 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
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
as Secretary Bird / Lion (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
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
as Secretary Bird / Lion (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
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
as Secretary Bird / Lion (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as F-14 / Ladder Fireman (voice) (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
as Prince Abba-Dabba (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. Lennie Weinrib 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
20 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
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
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
as Secretary Bird / Lion (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Tales of Terror
as Policeman ("The Black Cat")
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
as Prince Abba-Dabba (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Tales of Terror
as Policeman ("The Black Cat")
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as F-14 / Ladder Fireman (voice) (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as F-14 / Ladder Fireman (voice) (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
as Prince Abba-Dabba (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
as Secretary Bird / Lion (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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