Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#194778
of 909177 performers
Top 25%
Rose Hobart works on quiet performance 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.
Rose Hobart appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rose. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, transformation, versatility. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for western, mystery, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jacques Tourneur, Mark Robson, Rowland V. Lee and others, Rose Hobart 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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) as Muriel Carew · Canyon Passage (1946) as Marta Lestrade · Isle of the Dead (1945) as Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot; uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #194778 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1931–1946
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Most frequent director
Jacques Tourneur
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jacques Tourneur
Most common genre
Horror
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 14m
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
1930s
6.4 average MV
The 1930s are where the work and the material meet. Tower of London, Rose Hobart, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1930s
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
1940s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1930s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Tower of London, Rose Hobart, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Most productive era
1930s
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 | 1930s | 1940s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.62 films | 6.21 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.21 film |
| Horror | 6.62 films | 6.21 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 Muriel Carew. 6.9 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
1946Canyon Passage
The current state of the argument, as Marta Lestrade.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
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5 of 5 films
as Muriel Carew
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
as Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Directed by Joseph Cornell
as Marta Lestrade
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
as Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot; uncredited)
Directed by Mark Robson
as Anne Neville
Directed by Rowland V. Lee
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
Muriel Carew
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Muriel Carew gives Rose Hobart a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rose Hobart (1936)
Performance score6.8
Rose Hobart asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Woman (archive footage) (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Marta Lestrade
Canyon Passage (1946)
Performance score6.5
Canyon Passage asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marta Lestrade is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot; uncredited)
Isle of the Dead (1945)
Performance score6.5
Isle of the Dead asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot; uncredited) 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 Muriel Carew
Start here. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the clearest statement of what Rose Hobart does — accessible, 96 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rose 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.
Rose Hobart (1936)
A deliberate change of key after Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Tower of London (1939)
A deliberate change of key after Rose Hobart — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Isle of the Dead (1945)
Keeps the horror register of Tower of London but asks for a colder reading of it.
Canyon Passage (1946)
A deliberate change of key after Isle of the Dead — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Rouben Mamoulian
Director
1 film together
Notably Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Joseph Cornell
Director
1 film together
Notably Rose Hobart
Rowland V. Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Tower of London
Mark Robson
Director
1 film together
Notably Isle of the Dead
Jacques Tourneur
Director
1 film together
Notably Canyon Passage
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Rouben Mamoulian
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeJacques Tourneur
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Canyon PassageMark Robson
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Isle of the DeadRowland V. Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tower of LondonJoseph Cornell
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rose HobartSix 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
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Muriel Carew
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Tower of London
as Anne Neville
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Muriel Carew
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Canyon Passage
as Marta Lestrade
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Muriel Carew
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. Rose Hobart 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.
Horror Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in horror, 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
Isle of the Dead
as Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot; uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Isle of the Dead
as Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot; uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Tower of London
as Anne Neville
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Isle of the Dead
as Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot; uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Canyon Passage
as Marta Lestrade
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Canyon Passage
as Marta Lestrade
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Tower of London
as Anne Neville
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Rose Hobart
as Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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