Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Myron Natwick appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Myron. Three Days of the Condor is the clearest case: a film rated 7.1 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, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Robert Luketic, Jeff Wadlow, Macon Blair and others, Myron Natwick 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.
Three Days of the Condor (1975) as Civilian · I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017) as Killer Sills · The Wedding Year (2019) as Gentleman
Career snapshot
A Nutevio catalogue profile for Myron Natwick.
Films in Nutevio
5
1975–2019
Career length
44 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.1
Three Days of the Condor
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Three Days of the Condor
Most frequent director
Robert Luketic
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Robert Luketic
Most common genre
Comedy
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
6.7
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
7.1 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. Three Days of the Condor — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
7.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Three Days of the Condor.
Most productive era
2010s
3 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 | 1970s | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | — | 6.61 film |
| Action | — | 5.71 film | — |
| Thriller | 7.11 film | — | 6.32 films |
| Comedy | — | 5.71 film | 6.32 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.61 film |
| Horror | — | — | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Civilian. 7.1 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
2019The Wedding Year
The current state of the argument, as Gentleman.
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 Killer Sills
Directed by Macon Blair
as Gentleman
Directed by Robert Luketic
as Hospital Corpse
Directed by Jeff Wadlow
as Mr. Mason
Directed by Unknown
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
Civilian
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Performance score7.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Civilian gives Myron Natwick a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Killer Sills
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)
Performance score6.6
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Killer Sills is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gentleman
The Wedding Year (2019)
Performance score6.5
The Wedding Year asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gentleman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hospital Corpse
Truth or Dare (2018)
Performance score6.5
Truth or Dare asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hospital Corpse 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 Civilian
Start here. Three Days of the Condor is the clearest statement of what Myron Natwick does — accessible, 117 minutes, and rated 7.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Myron 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.
Cats & Dogs (2001)
A deliberate change of key after Three Days of the Condor — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Cats & Dogs but asks for a colder reading of it.
Truth or Dare (2018)
Keeps the thriller register of I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Wedding Year (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Truth or Dare — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Sydney Pollack
Director
1 film together
Notably Three Days of the Condor
Macon Blair
Director
1 film together
Notably I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Jeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together
Notably Truth or Dare
Robert Luketic
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wedding Year
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sydney Pollack
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Three Days of the CondorMacon Blair
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Don't Feel at Home in This World AnymoreRobert Luketic
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wedding YearJeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Truth or DareSix 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
Three Days of the Condor
as Civilian
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Cats & Dogs
as Mr. Mason
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Three Days of the Condor
as Civilian
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Cats & Dogs
as Mr. Mason
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Three Days of the Condor
as Civilian
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. Myron Natwick 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
44 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
Three Days of the Condor
as Civilian
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Three Days of the Condor
as Civilian
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Cats & Dogs
as Mr. Mason
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Three Days of the Condor
as Civilian
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Three Days of the Condor
as Civilian
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Cats & Dogs
as Mr. Mason
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
as Killer Sills
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Cats & Dogs
as Mr. Mason
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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