Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#49834
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Ned Glass 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.
Ned Glass appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ned. North by Northwest is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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, fantasy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Robert Stevenson, Billy Wilder, Stanley Donen and others, Ned Glass 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.
North by Northwest (1959) as Ticket Seller (uncredited) · Charade (1963) as Leopold Gideon · West Side Story (1961) as Doc
Career snapshot
Ranked #49834 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1953–1968
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
North by Northwest
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
North by Northwest
Most frequent director
Robert Stevenson
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Robert Stevenson
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 56m
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
1950s
6.9 average MV
The 1950s are where the work and the material meet. North by Northwest, The Defiant Ones, King Creole — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1950s
6.9
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1950s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1950s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. North by Northwest, The Defiant Ones, King Creole.
Most productive era
1950s
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 | 1950s | 1960s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.73 films | 7.02 films |
| Action | 6.71 film | — |
| Thriller | 7.32 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.94 films |
| Crime | 6.62 films | 7.02 films |
| Romance | — | 7.32 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1953Julius Caesar
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Cobbler (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.9 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
1968The Love Bug
The current state of the argument, as Toll Booth Attendant.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Ticket Seller (uncredited)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
as Leopold Gideon
Directed by Stanley Donen
as Doc
Directed by Robert Wise
as Doc Schindler
Directed by Billy Wilder
as Doctor
Directed by Stanley Kramer
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
Ticket Seller (uncredited)
North by Northwest (1959)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ticket Seller (uncredited) gives Ned Glass a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Leopold Gideon
Charade (1963)
Performance score7.2
Charade asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Leopold Gideon is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Doc
West Side Story (1961)
Performance score7.0
West Side Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Doc is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Doc Schindler
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
Performance score6.8
The Fortune Cookie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Doc Schindler 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 Ticket Seller (uncredited)
Start here. North by Northwest is the clearest statement of what Ned Glass does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ned 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.
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Keeps the adventure register of North by Northwest but asks for a colder reading of it.
West Side Story (1961)
Keeps the crime register of The Defiant Ones but asks for a colder reading of it.
Charade (1963)
Keeps the romance register of West Side Story but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
Keeps the comedy register of Charade but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Robert Stevenson
Director
2 films together
Notably Blackbeard's Ghost
Byron Haskin
Director
1 film together
Notably The War of the Worlds
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Director
1 film together
Notably Julius Caesar
Michael Curtiz
Director
1 film together
Notably King Creole
Stanley Kramer
Director
1 film together
Notably The Defiant Ones
Alfred Hitchcock
Director
1 film together
Notably North by Northwest
Robert Wise
Director
1 film together
Notably West Side Story
Stanley Donen
Director
1 film together
Notably Charade
Billy Wilder
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fortune Cookie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Robert Stevenson
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Blackbeard's GhostAlfred Hitchcock
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
North by NorthwestStanley Donen
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CharadeRobert Wise
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
West Side StoryBilly Wilder
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fortune CookieStanley 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
The Defiant OnesJoseph L. Mankiewicz
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Julius CaesarByron Haskin
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The War of the WorldsMichael Curtiz
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
King CreoleSix 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
North by Northwest
as Ticket Seller (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
West Side Story
as Doc
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
North by Northwest
as Ticket Seller (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Julius Caesar
as Cobbler (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
North by Northwest
as Ticket Seller (uncredited)
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. Ned Glass 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in drama, 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
North by Northwest
as Ticket Seller (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
North by Northwest
as Ticket Seller (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
West Side Story
as Doc
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Charade
as Leopold Gideon
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
North by Northwest
as Ticket Seller (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The War of the Worlds
as Well-Dressed Looter (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Fortune Cookie
as Doc Schindler
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Love Bug
as Toll Booth Attendant
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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