Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5070
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Mike Hagerty represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Mike is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Mike Hagerty appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mike. Overboard is the clearest case: a film rated 6.8 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, crime, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jill Sprecher, Jay Roach, Jan de Bont and others, Mike Hagerty 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.
Overboard (1987) as Billy Pratt · Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) as Hotel Manager (uncredited) · Wayne's World (1992) as Davy
Career snapshot
Ranked #5070 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
1987–2012
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
Overboard
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.8
Overboard
Most frequent director
Jay Roach
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jay Roach
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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
6.4
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
1980s
6.6 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. Red Heat, Overboard — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
6.6
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Red Heat, Overboard.
Most productive era
1990s
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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | — | 6.51 film |
| Action | 6.41 film | 4.61 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 4.61 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | 6.54 films | 6.51 film |
| Crime | 6.41 film | 6.43 films | 6.51 film |
| Romance | 6.81 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1987Overboard
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Billy Pratt. 6.8 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
2012Thin Ice
The current state of the argument, as Jerry.
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.
8 of 8 films
as Billy Pratt
Directed by Garry Marshall
as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Directed by Jay Roach
as Davy
Directed by Penelope Spheeris
as Jerry
Directed by Jill Sprecher
as Peanut Vendor
Directed by Jay Roach
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
Billy Pratt
Overboard (1987)
Performance score7.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Billy Pratt gives Mike Hagerty a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Performance score6.6
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hotel Manager (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Davy
Wayne's World (1992)
Performance score6.6
Wayne's World asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Davy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jerry
Thin Ice (2012)
Performance score6.5
Thin Ice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jerry 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 Billy Pratt
Start here. Overboard is the clearest statement of what Mike Hagerty does — accessible, 112 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mike 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.
Wayne's World (1992)
Keeps the comedy register of Overboard but asks for a colder reading of it.
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Keeps the comedy register of Wayne's World but asks for a colder reading of it.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Same director as Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Thin Ice (2012)
Keeps the comedy register of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jay Roach
Director
2 films together
Notably Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Garry Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Overboard
Walter Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Heat
Warren Beatty
Director
1 film together
Notably Dick Tracy
Penelope Spheeris
Director
1 film together
Notably Wayne's World
Jan de Bont
Director
1 film together
Notably Speed 2: Cruise Control
Jill Sprecher
Director
1 film together
Notably Thin Ice
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jay Roach
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Austin Powers: International Man of MysteryGarry Marshall
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OverboardPenelope Spheeris
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wayne's WorldJill Sprecher
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thin IceWalter Hill
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red HeatWarren Beatty
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dick TracyJan de Bont
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Speed 2: Cruise ControlSix 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
Overboard
as Billy Pratt
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Overboard
as Billy Pratt
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Overboard
as Billy Pratt
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Overboard
as Billy Pratt
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. Mike Hagerty 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
25 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
6 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
Wayne's World
as Davy
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Red Heat
as Pat Nunn
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Overboard
as Billy Pratt
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Red Heat
as Pat Nunn
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Red Heat
as Pat Nunn
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Red Heat
as Pat Nunn
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Thin Ice
as Jerry
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Red Heat
as Pat Nunn
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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