Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1344
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Roger Craig Smith 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.
Roger Craig Smith appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Roger. Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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, animation, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jesse Moynihan, Eric Fogel, Jared Hess and others, Roger Craig Smith 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.
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (2020) as Autopilot / Parent (voice) · Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024) as Additional Voices (voice) · Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie (2020) as Diamondhead / Steam Smythe (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1344 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Regular Show: The Movie
Most frequent director
Henrique Jardim
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Henrique Jardim
Most common genre
Animation
22 titles
Average runtime
1h 5m
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
6.3
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
6.8 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure.
Most productive era
2020s
18 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Action | — | 6.82 films | 6.510 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.32 films | 5.87 films |
| Horror | — | — | 7.32 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Bolt / Stone (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
7.8 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
2026Hungy Ghost
The current state of the argument, as Higgs Bozon / GI Bottoms / Doggo One (voice).
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.
23 of 23 films
as Autopilot / Parent (voice)
Directed by Maxwell Atoms
as Diamondhead / Steam Smythe (voice)
Directed by Henrique Jardim
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Rock Climbing Instructor / Lenny / Mt. Rageon Fan (voice)
Directed by Walt Dohrn
as Jablonski / Frank Smith / Fast Food Guy (voice)
Directed by J.G. Quintel
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
Autopilot / Parent (voice)
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (2020)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Autopilot / Parent (voice) gives Roger Craig Smith a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Diamondhead / Steam Smythe (voice)
Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie (2020)
Performance score7.6
Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Diamondhead / Steam Smythe (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024)
Performance score7.5
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rock Climbing Instructor / Lenny / Mt. Rageon Fan (voice)
Trolls Band Together (2023)
Performance score7.2
Trolls Band Together asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rock Climbing Instructor / Lenny / Mt. Rageon Fan (voice) 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 Autopilot / Parent (voice)
Start here. Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! is the clearest statement of what Roger Craig Smith does — accessible, 77 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Roger 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.
Regular Show: The Movie (2015)
Keeps the comedy register of Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie (2020)
Keeps the science fiction register of Regular Show: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Trolls Band Together (2023)
Keeps the adventure register of Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Trolls Band Together but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Henrique Jardim
Director
4 films together
Notably Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie
Ken Cunningham
Director
2 films together
Notably LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition
Klay Hall
Director
1 film together
Notably Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
J.G. Quintel
Director
1 film together
Notably Regular Show: The Movie
Phil Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably Ralph Breaks the Internet
Alfred Gimeno
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel Rising: Chasing Ghosts
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman: Red Son
Maxwell Atoms
Director
1 film together
Notably Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
Bruce Timm
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger
Brandon Vietti
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family
Peyton Reed
Director
1 film together
Notably Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Mike Roth
Director
1 film together
Notably Merry Little Batman
Walt Dohrn
Director
1 film together
Notably Trolls Band Together
Jared Hess
Director
1 film together
Notably Thelma the Unicorn
Eric Fogel
Director
1 film together
Notably Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
Jesse Moynihan
Director
1 film together
Notably Hungy Ghost
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Henrique Jardim
Director
4 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The MovieKen Cunningham
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
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission DemolitionMaxwell Atoms
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!J.G. Quintel
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Regular Show: The MovieWalt Dohrn
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trolls Band TogetherPhil Johnston
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ralph Breaks the InternetBrandon Vietti
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the FamilySam Liu
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman: Red SonJared Hess
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thelma the UnicornKlay Hall
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tinker Bell and the Lost TreasureBruce Timm
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase: The Phantom StrangerMike Roth
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Merry Little BatmanAlfred Gimeno
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marvel Rising: Chasing GhostsPeyton Reed
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ant-Man and the Wasp: QuantumaniaEric Fogel
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Megamind vs. the Doom SyndicateJesse Moynihan
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hungy GhostSix 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
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
as Autopilot / Parent (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Trolls Band Together
as Rock Climbing Instructor / Lenny / Mt. Rageon Fan (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
as Autopilot / Parent (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
as Quantumnaut Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
as Autopilot / Parent (voice)
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. Roger Craig Smith 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.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Animation Legend
Awarded
22 catalogue titles in animation, 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
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
as Autopilot / Parent (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
as Autopilot / Parent (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Thelma the Unicorn
as Garyl (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
as Autopilot / Parent (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie
as Diamondhead / Steam Smythe (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie
as Diamondhead / Steam Smythe (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Trolls Band Together
as Rock Climbing Instructor / Lenny / Mt. Rageon Fan (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Trolls Band Together
as Rock Climbing Instructor / Lenny / Mt. Rageon Fan (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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