Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8631
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ric Reitz represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 30 years in, and Ric is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Ric Reitz appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ric. Remember the Titans is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 action, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Mark Steven Johnson, Baran bo Odar, Ang Lee and others, Ric Reitz 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.
Remember the Titans (2000) as Reporter #4 · Front of the Class (2008) as Amanda's Father · The Founder (2016) as Will Davis (LA Times Reporter)
Career snapshot
Ranked #8631 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
1992–2022
Career length
30 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Remember the Titans
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Front of the Class
Most frequent director
Mark Steven Johnson
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Mark Steven Johnson
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.6
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
2000s
7.1 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Front of the Class, ATL, Remember the Titans — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.1
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.2
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. Now and Then, Love Potion No. 9.
Most productive era
2010s
10 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 | 6.91 film | 7.14 films | 6.55 films | — |
| Action | — | — | 6.02 films | 6.52 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.35 films | 6.52 films |
| Comedy | 6.62 films | 6.62 films | 6.12 films | — |
| Crime | — | 7.01 film | 6.03 films | 7.11 film |
| Romance | 6.62 films | 7.01 film | 6.62 films | — |
| Horror | — | — | — | 6.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dave.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.7 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
2022The System
The current state of the argument, as Commissioner Clarke.
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.
18 of 18 films
as Commissioner Clarke
Directed by Unknown
as Will Davis (LA Times Reporter)
Directed by John Lee Hancock
as Police Chief Mulligan
Directed by Lasse Hallström
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
Reporter #4
Remember the Titans (2000)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Reporter #4 gives Ric Reitz a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Commissioner Clarke
The System (2022)
Performance score7.2
The System asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Commissioner Clarke is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Amanda's Father
Front of the Class (2008)
Performance score7.2
Front of the Class asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Amanda's Father is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Will Davis (LA Times Reporter)
The Founder (2016)
Performance score7.1
The Founder asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Will Davis (LA Times Reporter) 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 Reporter #4
Start here. Remember the Titans is the clearest statement of what Ric Reitz does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ric 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.
Front of the Class (2008)
Keeps the drama register of Remember the Titans but asks for a colder reading of it.
Safe Haven (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Front of the Class — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Founder (2016)
A deliberate change of key after Safe Haven — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The System (2022)
A deliberate change of key after The Founder — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Lesli Linka Glatter
Director
1 film together
Notably Now and Then
Betty Thomas
Director
1 film together
Notably 28 Days
Boaz Yakin
Director
1 film together
Notably Remember the Titans
Chris Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably ATL
Peter Werner
Director
1 film together
Notably Front of the Class
Derrick Borte
Director
1 film together
Notably The Joneses
Robert Luketic
Director
1 film together
Notably Killers
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably Flight
Lasse Hallström
Director
1 film together
Notably Safe Haven
Allen Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably Broken City
Erik Van Looy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Loft
John Lee Hancock
Director
1 film together
Notably The Founder
Ang Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Baran bo Odar
Director
1 film together
Notably Sleepless
Mark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Finding Steve McQueen
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Boaz Yakin
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Remember the TitansPeter Werner
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Front of the ClassJohn Lee Hancock
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FounderLasse Hallström
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Safe HavenChris Robinson
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ATLRobert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FlightLesli Linka Glatter
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Now and ThenErik Van Looy
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The LoftDerrick Borte
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The JonesesBetty Thomas
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
28 DaysMark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Finding Steve McQueenAng Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime WalkAllen Hughes
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Broken CityRobert Luketic
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KillersBaran bo Odar
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SleeplessSix 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
Remember the Titans
as Reporter #4
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 Founder
as Will Davis (LA Times Reporter)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Remember the Titans
as Reporter #4
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Remember the Titans
as Reporter #4
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Remember the Titans
as Reporter #4
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. Ric Reitz 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
30 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
10 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
Remember the Titans
as Reporter #4
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The System
as Commissioner Clarke
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Founder
as Will Davis (LA Times Reporter)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Sleepless
as Captain
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The System
as Commissioner Clarke
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The System
as Commissioner Clarke
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
ATL
as Mr. Sapp
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Founder
as Will Davis (LA Times Reporter)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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