Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#19021
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Richard Tyson represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 32 years in, and Richard is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Richard Tyson appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Richard. Black Hawk Down is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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, horror, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ridley Scott, Bobby Farrelly, Ivan Reitman and others, Richard Tyson 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.
Black Hawk Down (2001) as Daniel Busch · There's Something About Mary (1998) as Detective Krevoy · Me, Myself & Irene (2000) as Gun Shop Owner
Career snapshot
Ranked #19021 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1988–2020
Career length
32 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Black Hawk Down
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Black Hawk Down
Most frequent director
Bobby Farrelly
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Bobby Farrelly
Most common genre
Action
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 52m
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
1990s
6.4 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. There's Something About Mary, Kingpin, Kindergarten Cop — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.4
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.4
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. Two Moon Junction.
Most productive era
1990s
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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.11 film | — | — | 4.61 film | — |
| Action | — | — | 5.52 films | 4.42 films | 3.41 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.43 films | 6.61 film | — | — |
| Crime | — | — | — | 4.61 film | — |
| Romance | 6.11 film | 6.71 film | — | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | — | — | 3.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Perry Tyson.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2001Black Hawk Down
7.5 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
2020Cry Havoc
The current state of the argument, as The Watcher / Scopophilio.
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 Daniel Busch
Directed by Ridley Scott
as Detective Krevoy
Directed by Bobby Farrelly
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
Daniel Busch
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Daniel Busch gives Richard Tyson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gun Shop Owner
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
Performance score6.6
Me, Myself & Irene asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gun Shop Owner is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Detective Krevoy
There's Something About Mary (1998)
Performance score6.6
There's Something About Mary asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Detective Krevoy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Perry Tyson
Two Moon Junction (1988)
Performance score6.6
Two Moon Junction asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Perry Tyson 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 Daniel Busch
Start here. Black Hawk Down is the clearest statement of what Richard Tyson does — accessible, 145 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Richard 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.
Two Moon Junction (1988)
A deliberate change of key after Black Hawk Down — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
There's Something About Mary (1998)
Keeps the romance register of Two Moon Junction but asks for a colder reading of it.
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
Same director as There's Something About Mary, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Cry Havoc (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Me, Myself & Irene — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Bobby Farrelly
Director
3 films together
Notably There's Something About Mary
Zalman King
Director
1 film together
Notably Two Moon Junction
Ivan Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Kindergarten Cop
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Hawk Down
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Bobby Farrelly
Director
3 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
There's Something About MaryRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black Hawk DownIvan Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kindergarten CopZalman King
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Two Moon JunctionSix 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
Black Hawk Down
as Daniel Busch
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Two Moon Junction
as Perry Tyson
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Black Hawk Down
as Daniel Busch
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Black Hawk Down
as Daniel Busch
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Black Hawk Down
as Daniel Busch
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. Richard Tyson 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
32 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in action, 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
Black Hawk Down
as Daniel Busch
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Black Hawk Down
as Daniel Busch
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Two Moon Junction
as Perry Tyson
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Black Hawk Down
as Daniel Busch
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Black Hawk Down
as Daniel Busch
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Battlefield Earth
as Robert the Fox
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Black Hawk Down
as Daniel Busch
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Black Hawk Down
as Daniel Busch
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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